Detmers Buries Seattle Early
Reid Detmers took the mound in Seattle on Friday night and made sure nobody would remember this as just another lost night in a lost season. Six innings, two hits, seven strikeouts, zero runs. The left-hander walked two but never let Mariners hitters settle into a rhythm, stranding Dominic Canzone and Michael Arroyo on isolated singles that went nowhere.
Angels 7, Mariners 5 was the final score, but the board looked lopsided long before Seattle’s bullpen-fueled rally in the late innings. Bryce Miller took the loss, his eighth straight decision since July 2, a stretch that has turned an already difficult Seattle season into something closer to a formality.
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Neto Rewrites the Shortstop Ledger
Zach Neto’s blast left the yard and, with it, a piece of Angels history went with it. His 27th home run of the season broke the franchise record for homers by a shortstop, a mark that had stood since long before most of this current roster was drafted. Neto has spent the year hitting in the middle of a lineup that keeps threatening to be good and then isn’t, but Friday belonged to him.
Wade Meckler added four hits, including a double and a triple, and Christian Moore turned a tight game into a laugher with a three-run homer in the sixth. Dominic Canzone kept Seattle within shouting distance with a two-run shot of his own, but the deficit built by Detmers proved too much to erase.
A Franchise Still Chasing Its First Winning September in Years
At 62-98, the Angels needed one more win to avoid their first 100-loss season since 1961. That context makes nights like this feel almost beside the point for the standings, and completely the point for individual pride. Detmers has quietly rebuilt his season after a rough stretch, and Neto’s power surge gives the front office something concrete to point to this winter.
Seattle, meanwhile, drops to 74-86 with essentially nothing left to play for beyond auditioning arms for next year’s rotation. Miller’s control was fine, his sequencing wasn’t, and against a lineup that made him pay for mistakes in the middle innings, that was enough.
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