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Angels waste Reid Detmers’ strong start, drop home opener to Mariners in 10 innings

April 4, 2026

ANAHEIM — The Angels saw the best of Reid Detmers as a starter.

Unfortunately for them, it happened on the same windy night when their hitters ran into Seattle Mariners right-hander Bryan Woo.

The Angels lost to the Mariners, 3-1 in 10 innings, on Friday, spoiling the home opener for an Angel Stadium sell-out crowd of 44,931.

The game was scoreless when left-hander Brent Suter took the mound in the 10th, and he immediately allowed the free runner to score on Cole Young’s triple off the right field wall. Suter got the next two outs, with an intentional walk to Julio Rodríguez. After a wild pitch allowed Rodriguez to go to second, Suter gave up a two-run single to Josh Naylor.

Suzuki could have gone with a pitcher more likely to get a strikeout – like right-handers Sam Bachman or Ryan Zeferjahn – but he ultimately said he “liked the matchup with the lefty,” so he picked Suter. Suter had not allowed a run in either of his first two games, with six strikeouts in four innings.

The extra runs proved costly, because the Angels cashed in their free runner on a Jorge Soler sacrifice fly but got nothing else.

The Angels (3-5) wasted nine innings of good pitching because their offense has been cold for the past four games. Since scoring 26 runs in their first four games, the Angels have scored just seven in the next four.

Certainly, some of what happened to them on Friday was because of Woo, who finished fifth in the American League Cy Young Award voting last year.

“I mean, the guy’s one of the best starters in the league, and he was on his game tonight,” Angels manager Kurt Suzuki said. “He pitched well and when a guy like that pitches well, you’ve just got to do your best and battle. I felt like our guys were battling, just couldn’t muster anything up.”

It didn’t help either lineup that there was a stiff wind blowing in from right field for most of the night.

Mike Trout had the Angels’ hardest-hit fly ball of the night, and it was knocked down well short of the fence.

“I thought I got enough, for sure,” Trout said. “I know I hit off the end a little bit, I thought I got enough. It is what it is.”

Trout reached base three times, including a walk and getting hit by a pitch. He looked angrily at Woo after he hit him in the shoulder with a 95 mph pitch, but Trout said after the game that Woo apologized to him.

“Anytime you get thrown up and in, and then you get hit the next pitch, you’re going to be upset,” Trout said. “I know they’re going to try to pitch me up there. But there ain’t nothing (intentional) to it.”

The Angels had only one hit, an Oswald Peraza bloop single that the wind probably blew away from right fielder Victor Robles. Peraza was then picked off.

The Angels at least can take some consolation in the fact that Detmers was so good.

“I thought he was great,” Suzuki said. “Under control, executed, made pitches. He freaking pitched his butt off. It was nice eto see him rebound from the last one and really have a good start.”

In his previous start, Detmers was effective against the Houston Astros – striking out nine and walking none – but he couldn’t keep the Astros from fouling off pitches and driving up his pitch count. He was at 95 when he was pulled with two outs in the fifth, with only two runs on the board.

This time, he induced the Mariners to put balls into play softly, and that allowed him to get deeper in the game.

“It just kind of works like that sometimes,” Detmers said. “Houston’s really good, just getting the bat to the ball, fouling stuff off. Just kind of mixing up the pitches a little bit (this time). I wouldn’t say I changed a whole lot to be honest with you.”

Detmers struck out four and he walked four, but the Mariners didn’t really threaten against him. They had only three singles. The only inning in which the Mariners had multiple runners at the same time was the fourth. He escaped that jam with a strikeout.

Suzuki gave Detmers a shot at the seventh, the first time in the young season that any Angels starter had gone that far. Detmers issued a one-out walk and then he picked off J.P. Crawford, before a single ended his night.

Right-hander Chase Silseth struck out Cole Young to retire the side.

Left-hander Drew Pomeranz got out of an eighth-inning jam. He issued a walk and gave up a hit. Randy Arozarena then hit a comebacker that Pomeranz got just enough of to slow it down. The ball dribbled behind the mound, and he pounced on it and threw to first, retiring the side.

Right-hander Jordan Romano worked a perfect ninth, with two strikeouts.

Photos: Angels fans celebrate 2026 home opener at the Big A

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