Reid Detmers didn’t have his sharpest stuff Monday night, but the Angels left-hander still kept his run rolling with another quality start in a 6-4 win over the Mariners at Angel Stadium.
Detmers worked six innings and gave up three runs on seven hits and a walk. The big swing against him came in the fourth, when Cal Raleigh launched a three-run homer on a 1-1 slider down and away. Even so, the outing was enough to make it seven straight quality starts for Detmers, whose second half has turned into a full-blown ace stretch.
Since the All-Star break, he has been one of the best starters in baseball. In 11 outings, Detmers has posted an MLB-best 1.65 ERA with 76 strikeouts and 11 walks in 65 1/3 innings.
That surge has powered an impressive season back in the rotation after he spent last year in relief and was viewed as a trade candidate at the Deadline. Under team control for two more years, he improved to 6-8 with a 3.36 ERA in a career-high 30 starts.
The strikeout milestone is now right in front of him, too. Detmers has 199 strikeouts in 174 innings and needs one more to become the first Angels pitcher to reach 200 since Shohei Ohtani did it in 2022.
Only 11 pitchers in franchise history have done it, and the last left-hander before Detmers to get there was Chuck Finley in 1999. With two starts left on his schedule, he’s positioned to get there soon.
Monday’s outing began with a little danger. J.P.
Crawford opened the game with a single, and Randy Arozarena followed with a double into the left-center-field gap. But Jose Siri got to the ball quickly in center and helped start a perfect relay, with Zach Neto firing home to cut down Crawford at the plate as he tried to score from first.
Neto’s throw home registered at 97.3, per Statcast.
Detmers then settled in and retired the next eight hitters, five of them on strikeouts, before the Mariners got him again in the fourth. Arozarena and Dominic Canzone opened the inning with back-to-back singles, setting the stage for Raleigh’s homer that accounted for all three runs against him.
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