The Los Angeles Angels pitched a great game in its home opener but could only muster just one hit in a 3-1 loss in 10 innings to the Seattle Mariners.<\/p>\n
Angels<\/a> left-hander Reid Detmers pretty much matched Mariners righty Bryan Woo, as both didn\u2019t allow a run and worked into the seventh inning. Detmers was pulled after 6.2 scoreless innings and surrendered just three hits and four walks while striking out four; Woo completed seven one-hit shutout innings and walked one while punching out six.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n The game remained scoreless through nine innings, and it was an absolute pitching duel<\/a> in the first meeting between American League West division rivals, but Seattle got the best of the Los Angeles in the 10th inning.<\/p>\n Mariners second baseman Cole Young roped a triple off the base of the right field wall near the foul pole to bring in the game\u2019s first run, later followed by a single from first baseman Josh Naylor that scored two more runs. Angels designated hitter Jorge Soler scored center fielder Mike Trout<\/a> on a sacrifice fly to right field but it wasn\u2019t enough to overcome the 3-0 deficit.<\/p>\n An incident<\/a> involving Trout and Woo occurred during his first plate appearance in which Trout was hit by a pitch. Trout saw two pitches from Woo, the first was up and in at Trout\u2019s head and the second was in the same area and got him on the shoulder. Trout wasn\u2019t too thrilled about it for obvious reasons, but cooler heads prevailed and nothing arose from the situation. Detmers threw behind<\/a> Mariners center fielder Julio Rodriguez in the fourth inning, which made Rodriguez stare a hole through Detmers, but nothing else happened.<\/p>\n Game two of the series will feature a pitching matchup of Angels right-hander Jack Kochanowicz and Mariners righty Emerson Hancock.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Kochanowicz had a rough first outing against the Houston Astros, pitching just four innings and allowing six runs (five earned) on four hits and five walks with three strikeouts. Hancock was outstanding against the Cleveland Guardians on Sunday, pitching six no-hit innings with just one walk and nine strikeouts.<\/p>\n Kochanowicz and Hancock had polar opposite debuts, but the Astros are one of the best offensive teams early and the Guardians haven\u2019t had the same kind of luck, so it\u2019ll be interesting to see how these two fare against one another.<\/p>\n Seattle\u2019s pitching staff gets a lot of attention because the starting rotation is chock-full of great arms, with Hancock being the fourth starter in the rotation. The Mariners own the third-best ERA (2.68) and have struck out the third-most batters (88) in Major League Baseball through eight games.<\/p>\n Los Angeles\u2019 offense is one of the worst despite a high-scoring series against Houston, posting the worst batting average (.186), strikeouts (92) and the seventh-worst OPS (.627) but the most walks (39) and third-most home runs (10) through eight games.<\/p>\n First pitch is at 6:38 p.m. PST on MLB.TV and regional sports networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Angels pitched a great game in its home opener but could only muster just one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[291,5,762,51,12342,764,54,758,3509,94,3992,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,603,4,3923,2099,65],"class_list":{"0":"post-663624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-angels","8":"tag-angels","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-bryan-woo","11":"tag-cleveland-guardians","12":"tag-cole-young","13":"tag-emerson-hancock","14":"tag-houston-astros","15":"tag-jack-kochanowicz","16":"tag-jorge-soler","17":"tag-josh-naylor","18":"tag-julio-rodriguez","19":"tag-la","20":"tag-la-angels","21":"tag-laangels","22":"tag-los-angeles","23":"tag-los-angeles-angels","24":"tag-losangeles","25":"tag-losangelesangels","26":"tag-mike-trout","27":"tag-mlb","28":"tag-reid-detmers","29":"tag-scoreless-innings","30":"tag-seattle-mariners"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116349052526489792","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}