Reid Detmers gave the Angels exactly what they needed Friday night: six scoreless innings, a quieting presence on the mound, and just enough breathing room for Los Angeles to keep piling on in a 7-5 win over the Mariners in Seattle.
Detmers (7-8) was sharp from the start and didn’t allow his first hit until Dominic Canzone singled with one out in the fourth inning. Michael Arroyo led off the fifth with a single, but that was about as much damage as Seattle could manage against him. The left-hander finished with seven strikeouts and two walks while blanking the Mariners over six innings.
Los Angeles did most of its early work through Wade Meckler, who was a hit away from the cycle and kept finding ways to make life miserable for Seattle starter Bryce Miller. Meckler tripled in the first, singled in the fourth and doubled in the sixth against Miller (4-10), who gave up five runs on six hits in six innings while striking out seven and walking two.
Meckler had two shots to finish the cycle, but he grounded out in the seventh and then beat out an infield single in the ninth for his fourth hit of the night.
The Angels got on the board in the first when Meckler scored on Miller’s wild pitch. They added another run in the fourth on Vaughn Grissom’s RBI single, then blew the game open in the sixth when Christian Moore launched a three-run homer to make it 5-0.
Zach Neto kept the pressure on in the seventh, homering off Seattle reliever Eduard Bazardo for his team-leading 27th of the season. Neto came back with an RBI double in the ninth as well.
Seattle finally broke through in the eighth, when Sam Bachman hit Julio Rodríguez with the bases loaded and Michael Arroyo followed with an RBI infield single. The Mariners made things tense again in the ninth with Randy Arozarena’s RBI triple and Canzone’s two-run homer with two outs, trimming the deficit to 7-5.
The teams continue their season-ending four-game set Saturday night, with RHP Ryan Johnson (5-9, 4.93 ERA) set to start for the Angels against Mariners rookie LHP Kade Anderson (2-2, 4.18).
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