Nolan Schanuel’s sacrifice fly scored the winning run in the bottom of the 11th inning as the Los Angeles Angels defeated the Seattle Mariners 8-7 Sunday afternoon in Anaheim, Calif.
Shaun Anderson (1-0) struck out Cal Raleigh with the bases loaded in the top of the inning.
With Adam Frazier the automatic runner at second base, Gabe Speier (0-2) intentionally walked Zach Neto leading off the bottom of the inning. Both runners advanced on Oswald Peraza’s sacrifice bunt and Schanuel lifted a fly ball to left, with Frazier beating the throw home.
Both teams scored in the 10th. Randy Arozarena’s single to right gave the Mariners a 7-6 lead in the top of the inning. In the bottom half, automatic runner Jo Adell advanced to third on a sacrifice bunt by Bryce Teodosio and scored on Logan O’Hoppe’s sacrifice fly to center.
The Mariners tied the game with a two-out rally in the ninth. Raleigh doubled to left and chugged home on Julio Rodriguez’s broken-bat single to left on a 2-2 slider from Sam Bachman.
The Angels’ Mike Trout left the game in the bottom of the eighth after being hit on the left hand by a pitch from Casey Legumina.
The Angels took the lead in the first inning as Neto led off with a double and scored on Jorge Soler’s two-out single.
Seattle responded in the second, with Leo Rivas’ two-run single making it 2-1.
The Angels tied it in the third as Trout led off with a double to left-center, took third on a groundout and scored on Soler’s single to right.
Los Angeles took a 4-2 lead on the fourth on a Rivas fielding error at third which allowed Josh Lowe to score and a Schanuel infield single with two outs.
The Mariners regained the lead in the fifth on Cole Young’s three-run homer to right.
The Angels wasted little time regaining the lead, scoring twice in the bottom of the inning. Jeimer Candelario led off with a line-drive double, scoring on an Adell single to level the score at 5. Adell came around to score the go-ahead run to make it 6-5 on a grounder which got under Rivas’ glove.
Angels right-hander George Klassen, called up from Triple-A Salt Lake City to make his major league debut with scheduled starter Ryan Johnson scratched because of an illness, lasted just 2 2/3 innings. Klassen gave up two runs on three hits, with five walks and four strikeouts.
Mariners starter Luis Castillo didn’t go much longer, giving up four runs (three earned) on six hits over 3 2/3 innings. The righty walked one and fanned four.
