Twenty-one starts, and not one win at home
Reid Detmers had not won in front of his own crowd in 21 starts. He picked a good night to fix that, blanking Kansas City over eight innings in Anaheim. The Angels won 1-0.
The number deserves a second look. Detmers had been sharing the American League record with Kutter Crawford and Alex Cobb for the longest run of home starts without a win. Twenty-one. He was also nine starts into a winless stretch overall, home and road alike.
Two hits. Eleven strikeouts. Ninety-two pitches, 68 of them strikes. His 100th big league start, and his record climbs to 4-8.
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Eleven up, eleven down before Caglianone spoiled it
Detmers retired the first 11 hitters he faced. Kansas City’s first hit came off the bat of Jac Caglianone in the fourth, pushing the rookie’s streak to 13 straight games with at least one knock.
The left-hander struck out the side in the third. He did it again in the seventh. Eight scoreless frames later, he handed it over.
Ben Joyce slammed the door in the ninth with two strikeouts and a radar gun that read 104.5 and 104.4 miles per hour. Second save of his season.
One run, and it took until the eighth to arrive
Nothing on the board for seven and a half innings. Then Nate Pearson walked Wade Meckler. Jose Siri came on to pinch run, Mike Trout flew out, and Siri swiped second.
Nolan Schanuel lined the next pitch past Caglianone’s diving glove and into right field. Siri scored. That was the whole game right there. Schanuel finished with three hits, Adam Frazier added two including a double.
Kansas City got five and two-thirds scoreless from Randy Dobnak, four hits and six strikeouts, and wasted every bit of it. Pearson wore the loss. The Royals have now lost five of six and their wild card window is closing. Anaheim, for what it is worth, had gone winless in four previous meetings with Kansas City this year.
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