Seattle 5, LA Angels 3
When: 10:10 PM ET, Monday, August 29, 2011
Where: Safeco Field, Seattle, Washington
Temperature:
69°
Umpires:
Home -
Bob Davidson, 1B -
Hunter Wendelstedt, 2B -
Brian Knight, 3B -
Jerry Layne
Attendance:
16990
By SportsDirect Inc.
Mike Carp hit a mammoth two-run homer in the bottom of the eighth inning to give the Seattle Mariners a 5-3 victory over the visiting Los Angeles Angels on Monday.
Dustin Ackley led off the eighth with a double against lefthander Hisanori Takahashi (3-3) and the left-handed hitting Carp followed with a 432-foot blast to drop the Angels 3 1/2 games behind the first-place Texas Rangers in the American League West.
Tom Wilhelmsen (2-0) struck out two in the eighth and Brandon League retired Vernon Wells on a grounder with a runner on second in the ninth for his 32nd save.
Ackley went 3-for-3 and had two RBIs as the Mariners broke a three-game losing streak and handed the Angels just their third loss in 10 games.
Seattle tied the contest at 3-3 in the fifth when Ichiro Suzuki doubled and scored on Ackley’s two-out triple to right center.
Los Angeles tallied three times in the fourth on Mark Trumbo’s two-run homer and a run-scoring double by Erick Aybar.
The Mariners led 2-0 after Ackley’s first-inning sacrifice fly and Kyle Seager’s second-inning sacrifice fly.
Seattle’s Blake Beavan gave up three runs and eight hits in seven innings. Angels starter Joel Pineiro allowed three runs and seven hits in six innings.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| LA Angels |
|
Seattle |
|
Joel Pineiro |
Player |
Blake Beavan
|
|
No Decision |
W/L |
No Decision |
|
6.0 |
IP |
7.0 |
|
2 |
Strikeouts |
0 |
|
7 |
Hits |
8 |
|
4.50 |
ERA |
3.86 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| LA Angels
|
9 |
1 |
14 |
.273 |
7 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Seattle
|
10 |
1 |
20 |
.323 |
13 |
3 |
5 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
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