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On Saturday night, the Los Angeles Angels defeated the hosts Seattle Mariners, 7-1, with Reed Detmers pitching seven innings to earn a doubleheader split between American League West rivals.
He won the opening game for the Mariners 2-1.
With Mickey Moniak and David Fletcher hitting homers at Nightcap, the Angels improved to his 6-2 record in Seattle this season.
Detmers (4-3) gave up 1 on his 6 hits. Left arm: 1 walk, 7 strikeouts.
Right-hander Chris Flexen (7-9) of Seattle lost for the first time in his last six decisions. Flexen allowed him 5 runs in 6 innings, with 6 hits, 2 walks, and 5 strikeouts.
The Angels broke a scoreless tie in his third inning.
Magneuris Sierra led on an infield hit, and Taylor Ward doubled to right center field. Ward moved to third on Luis Lengifo's groundout to the right infield and scored on Max Stassi's grounder single to the left.
Moniak went deep right in his fourth to take the lead. It was his second home run since being acquired from Philadelphia at the trade deadline.
The Mariners pulled away 3-1 on Luis Torrence's solo shot to right center and recorded his two outs in the fifth inning. Sam Haggerty hit a double into the left field corner to advance to third on a wild pitch, but Detmers struck out Adam Frazier to end the inning. The Angels scored in the sixth inning when Jared Walsh hit his one out on his single to right and Fletcher lined up a curveball that hung just above the left field wall, giving the lead to his 5-. spread to 1.
Los Angeles reached on his single with Moniak bunting in his ninth, and pitcher Brennan hit Bernardino's throw on his error that put him second, plus he scored twice. . Fletcher then hit an RBI single just inside the first base bag. After the Angels had the bases loaded with one out, Shohei Ohtani hit a sacrifice fly to the left to keep the score down.
Mitch Haniger, an outfielder for the Mariners, was activated between games from the 60-day injured list (upper right ankle sprain), making his first outing since April 29, hitting a double and walking. in which he scored 1-3.
– Field Level Media
