ANAHEIM — In the eighth inning of a Wednesday afternoon matinee between the Los Angeles Angels and Minnesota Twins, pitcher Reid Detmers exited the game early due to injury.

Detmers said it was a forearm injury, and he is expected to get an MRI on Thursday before the team begins a four-game series against the Seattle Mariners.

While it is unknown what went wrong, Detmers said he felt a loss of power in his arm but didn’t seem too concerned about the injury.

“Just kind of felt dead. Not a whole lot of power behind it,” Detmers said. “I wouldn’t say i’m too concerned. …Nothing hurts. I’m not in pain or anything.”

Detmers opened the eighth and was replacing Luis Garcia, who pitched in the seventh. He faced two batters until the Angels’ coaching staff noticed a decline in his velocity and came out to evaluate him.

Despite his velocity going down during the game, he added that he didn’t feel anything wrong inside of his arm.

“It’s not the inside of the elbow,” Detmers said. “It’s more on the outer half.”

Detmers opened the inning by getting the first two batters he faced out, but then gave up a double to James Outman.

During the at-bat against Outman, that’s when his velocity started to decline and when he was replaced by Robert Stephenson.

Stephenson opened the inning by intentionally walking Byron Buxton to go ahead and face Austin Martin.

The at-bat was a breeze for Stephenson as he struck out Martin on three pitches to end the inning.

Being stuck in a tie ball game since the sixth inning, the Angels took the lead for the game’s final score of 4-3. Bryce Teodosio opened the inning with a leadoff triple. It was his second triple of the series.

“I can’t say enough on what he’s done on the defensive side. And I think what we’ve talked about on offense is the bar doesn’t have to be as high as some others so he has a little bit of room there to work on his swing,” Angels interim manager Ray Montgomery said. “Credit the hitting guys for working through that stuff and credit Bryce he understands bunting will be a part of it too. The triples are nice but you wanna have a little bit of everything mixed in.”

In the next at-bat, Mike Trout came up and drove Teodosio home on a line drive that was caught by Martin in left field. Despite Trout not getting on base, it was enough for the Angels to hold onto the lead.

Trout also scored the first run of the game back in the third inning when he hit a line drive to bring in Sebastián Rivero from second base.

As of late, Trout has been in a slump at the plate, hitting .224 with 22 hits and one home run. He is currently in the longest home run drought of his career without hitting one at 97 at-bats. Right now, he’s only two homers away from career home run 400.

“Just working hard with the hitting guys down there. Trying to figure out how to get back to my old self,” Trout said. “Just under a lot of things.” 

After Trout brought home Rivero, he was next to be brought home.

Zach Neto waited until the fourth pitch of his second at-bat in the afternoon and took a 98 MPH fastball deep to left field for a two-run homer.

The Twins’ three runs today came courtesy of the longball. Outman opened the third inning with a solo homer towards right field. Then Buxton had a two-run shot to tie the game in the sixth inning.

Angels pitcher José Fermin was on the mound in the sixth and gave up a quick walk to Ryan Fitzgerald. In the next at-bat, he got Outman to strike out on a foul tip.

While facing Buxton, Fermin misfired a fastball to Buxton by throwing it north of the strike zone. For Buxton, it was not a problem as he launched the ball 396 feet deep for a two-run homer.

Byron Buxton actually tied the ball game at 3 by hitting this fastball 396 feet to right field.

Guess he doesn’t care about the strike zone. pic.twitter.com/9x12TAka5u

— Thomas Murray (@Thomas_L_Murray) September 10, 2025

José Ureña made his first start of the season for the Angels this afternoon. He pitched through four innings and gave up 1 run, 4 hits, 3 strikeouts, and 4 walks.

“I thought he did a nice job,” Montgomery said. “It’s a hot day out there. He was grinding through a couple tough innings.”

Today’s game ended with Stephenson getting the win and Kenley Jansen getting the save. Jansen is now 4 saves away from tying Lee Smith for fourth on the all-time saves list.