Seattle Mariners sweep Los Angeles Angels 2-1 - MLB Update
The American League’s Seattle Mariners had another striking day, as the club overpowered the Los Angeles Angels 2-1 in the second-straight game at the Safeco Field, on Thursday, May 19, to clinch a series sweep.
The Mariners, who shut-out the Angels in the last game due to Jason Vargas’ scoreless innings, had another outstanding day with the ball. Starter, Doug Fister tossed a strong one-run eight innings spell to earn his club their nineteenth win of the season.
Fister began the game in a positive manner and tossed three shut-out innings before allowing the Angels’ Howard Kendrick a one-run homer to the left-field. After allowing an early lead in the fourth inning, the 27-year-old ball thrower came back to his perfect
momentum quickly. Right-hand hurler tossed four more innings and held the Angels scoreless in their last innings.
By the time Fister completed his eight innings spell, the Mariners had tied the game to 1-1 with an RBI single struck by Chris Gimenez in the bottom of the fifth inning. Fister tossed eight innings, allowed just six hits, two walks and got two strike-outs
to improve his record to 2-4 with a 2.93 ERA.
The Mariners’ pitchers have tossed seven or more innings eleven times in a last fifteen games. The Mariners’ manager Eric Wedge was pleased to have such an awesome performance by the pitchers.
"It's been outstanding. That's the only word I can think of," Wedge said. "Consistently getting us deep into ballgames. Each starter focusing on what they need to do and doing their job and doing the work in between starts so when they go out there they
are giving themselves an opportunity to be at their best."
The game was tied 1-1 when closer David Pauley relieved Fister and provided him a successful back up, tossing scoreless ninth innings that gave the batters a chance to grab a game. However, the outing might have gone into extra innings, if the Angels’ center-fielder
Torii Hunter could have caught Carlos Peguero’s fly ball on the last pitch of the inning.
"I saw it off the bat and ran after it 'til its highest point and didn't see it anymore. I just battled, tried to find it, stand there as long as I could, put my glove where I thought it would fall in," Hunter said. "I just couldn't see it. You can't catch
what you can't see."
The Angels’ starter, Dan Haren, held the Mariners scoreless until fifth inning when he yielded his sole run to Gimenez. The 30-year-old pitcher, despite allowing a single remained outstanding with the ball and completed his eight innings spell allowing just
one run on three hits. The Right-hand ball thrower also struck out five batters and allowed four walks, but remained winless.
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