Angels held to one hit in home-opening loss to Mariners

The Angels’ offense was stifled in a 3-1, 10-inning loss to the Seattle Mariners in their home opener Friday night before 44,931 fans at Angel Stadium.

In a scoreless game in the 10th inning, Seattle’s Cole Young tripled to the right corner off Angels reliever Brent Suter who scored Luke Raley from second base. Two outs later, Suter intentionally walked Julio Rodríguez. Josh Naylor singled in two more runs to make it 3-0.

Jorge Soler drove in Mike Trout on a sacrifice fly to right field in the bottom of the 10th, but that was all the Angels (3-5) could muster after Seattle held them to just one hit and retired the final 21 Angels batters.

Mariners starter Bryan Woo gave up that hit, struck out six and walked one in seven solid innings. Seattle relievers Matt Brash, Andres Muñoz and Gabe Speier were equally dominant, combining for six strikeouts and no walks in three hitless innings.

“[Woo] is one of the best starters in the league. He was in his game tonight,” Angels manager Kurt Suzuki said. “He pitched well and when a guy like him pitches well, you just have to give your best in the battle and I feel like our guys were struggling, they just couldn’t put anything together.”

Angels starter Reid Detmers also had a solid game, allowing three hits, with four strikeouts and four walks in 6⅔ innings.

“It was a hard-fought match and we obviously didn’t come out on top, but we’ll meet them again tomorrow,” Detmers said.

Suzuki thought Detmers was in control and executed the throws well. He would get ahead in the batter count and put them away, while inducing soft contact, which allowed him to go deeper into the play.

“He went for it,” Suzuki said. “It was good to see him bounce back from the last one and really get off to a good start.”

In the first inning, Trout stared down Woo before taking first base after a sinker hit the star outfielder’s left shoulder. The hit came after the right-hander threw a four-seam fastball that nearly missed Trout’s face.

“Anytime you get thrown up and down and then get hit on the next pitch, you’re going to be upset,” Trout said.

Angels star Mike Trout is hit by a pitch during the first inning Friday against the Mariners.

(Mark J. Terrill / Associated Press)

The first hit came in the bottom of the third after Oswald Peraza sent a bloop single to right field. Woo cleared the basepaths after throwing out the runner for the second out of the inning. Zach Neto grounded out to stop the Angels offense.

Detmers threw a fastball behind Rodríguez to open the top of the fourth inning. The outfielder looked left-handed and then grounded to first baseman Nolan Schanuel. Seattle threatened to break the tie after Naylor reached first and Randy Arozarena followed with a single to right field.

Neto threw out Brendan Donovan at third to record the second out and Detmers struck out JP Crawford to end the inning.

Trout nearly ended the pitchers’ duel in the bottom of the sixth inning after sharply hitting a fly ball to left field, but Arozarena found him.

“I thought I’d had enough, that’s for sure,” he said. “I managed a little bit at the end, but I thought I’d had enough – it is what it is.”

Suzuki also thought Trout hit the ball hard enough for a home run.

“I didn’t really see what the exit was [velocity] or something like that, but I thought it went pretty well,” Suzuki said. “Obviously the wind kind of snagged it there, but I thought it was a great pass.”

After a one-out walk to Crawford in the top of the seventh, Detmers struck out the runner but gave up a single to Victor Robles. The shot ended his evening after 104 pitches. He left to the applause of the crowd, but he didn’t notice it.

“I was in my zone, so I mean, it was a good game,” said Detmers, who lowered his ERA to 2.38.

Reliever Chase Silseth struck out Young to end the seventh.

In the eighth, Drew Pomeranz allowed a one-out walk to Cal Raleigh and a single to Rodriguez, but retired Naylor and Arozarena on a fly ball and ground ball, respectively.

In the ninth, Jordan Romano threw a fastball that appeared to have hit Leo Rivas, but the call was overturned after a challenge confirmed it had hit the bat. The right-hander struck out Rivas and Crawford and asked batter Raley to field.

With two outs and two strikes, Trout struck out to send the game into extra innings.