Major League Baseball
Seattle 2, LA Angels 0
When: 10:10 PM ET, Saturday, July 10, 2021
Where: T-Mobile Park, Seattle, Washington
Temperature: 74°
Umpires: Home - Kerwin Danley, 1B - Junior Valentine, 2B - CB Bucknor, 3B - Chad Fairchild
Attendance: 27353

Chris Flexen continued his mastery at T-Mobile Park as the Seattle Mariners defeated the visiting Los Angeles Angels 2-0 Saturday night.

Flexen (8-3) pitched seven scoreless innings of three-hit ball, with two walks and six strikeouts. The right-hander improved to 6-2 at home, where his ERA is 1.76.

Drew Steckenrider struck out the side in the eighth and fellow right-hander Paul Sewald worked a 1-2-3 ninth for his second save of the season.

Seattle's Luis Torrens went 2 for 3 with a triple and drove in a run. The Mariners have won the first two games of the series and will try to complete a sweep Sunday afternoon before heading into the All-Star break.

Los Angeles' Shohei Ohtani, who leads the majors with 33 home runs, went 0 for 3 with a walk and struck out twice, including leading off the ninth inning.

Angels left-hander Patrick Sandoval (2-3) took the loss. Sandoval allowed two runs on six hits in seven innings, with two walks and six strikeouts.

The Mariners broke a scoreless tie in the fourth inning. Mitch Haniger led off with a walk and, an out later, advanced to third when Torrens grounded a single into right field. Jake Fraley hit a grounder to second baseman David Fletcher, who threw out Torrens at second, but Fraley was able to beat out the throw from shortstop Jose Iglesias to avoid the inning-ending double play and allow Haniger to score.

Seattle's J.P. Crawford led off the sixth with a bunt single but was thrown out trying to reach second. Haniger then grounded a single into right field. Ty France grounded into a force out, with Fletcher and Iglesias colliding at second base in an attempt to turn a double play. Torrens followed by lining a two-out triple to right to score France and make it 2-0.

The Mariners loaded the bases with two outs in the eighth on a single by France and two walks, but Angels left-hander Alex Claudio got Shed Long Jr. to ground out to end the threat.

--Field Level Media

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
LA Angels   Seattle
Patrick Sandoval Player Chris Flexen
Loss W/L Win
7.0 IP 7.0
6 Strikeouts 6
6 Hits 3
2.57 ERA 0.00
Hitting
LA Angels   Seattle
Phil Gosselin Player Luis Torrens
1 Hits 2
0 RBI 1
0 HR 0
1 TB 4
.333 Avg .667
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
LA Angels 3 0 3 .103 8 10 0 2 0 0
Seattle 7 0 9 .233 14 6 2 4 0 0