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SAN DIEGO — Blake Snell hardly had to interruption a sweat to cruise done a skeleton Angels lineup for six innings.
But they worked him successful the seventh, and they converted.
Jo Adell ripped the Angels’ archetypal deed of the game, pursuing 2 walks, to thrust successful the archetypal 2 runs successful an improbable 4-0 triumph implicit the Padres connected Tuesday night.
With respective of their champion hitters injured and 2 of the champion steadfast hitters connected the bench, the Angels didn’t adjacent muster a azygous baserunner against Snell for the archetypal six innings.
David Fletcher worked a leadoff locomotion to extremity the cleanable game. Luis Rengifo tried to bunt for a hit. Although helium was out, helium moved Fletcher to second. Fletcher past stole third.
Phil Gosselin past worked Snell for 9 pitches, yet striking out, and Jack Mayfield worked an eight-pitch walk. Those 17 pitches cranked Snell’s transportation number up to 26 for the inning, which was astir fractional the 66 he’d thrown done the archetypal six innings.
Snell got up of Adell, 1-and-2, but past Adell hammered a enactment thrust into halfway tract for the Angels’ archetypal deed of the game. It drove successful 2 due to the fact that Mayfield had stolen 2nd erstwhile the Padres paid small attraction to him astatine first.
The runs came excessively precocious for Packy Naughton to get his archetypal major-league victory. While Snell was mounting each of the Angels down successful order, Naughton was matching him successful the file that matters: runs.
He worked astir 2 hits and 2 walks, including 1 of each successful the 2nd inning. He struck retired Ha Seong-Kim and Snell to strand the runners.
Naughton was pulled aft 5 innings and conscionable 72 pitches truthful the Angels could usage a pinch-hitter to effort to get thing going against Snell.
Naughton, 1 of the pitchers the Angels picked up successful the Brian Goodwin commercialized past August, has a 2.57 ERA done his archetypal 14 major-league innings implicit 4 games.
After Naughton was pulled, Jimmy Herget worked 2 innings. Steve Cishek pitched the eighth and Raisel Iglesias closed it out. Luis Rengifo homered successful the apical of the ninth, past the Angels added different security tally erstwhile Gosselin doubled and yet scored connected an Adell groundout.
The Angels pitching needed to beryllium bully due to the fact that they utilized 1 of their thinnest imaginable lineups.
Mike Trout, Anthony Rendon and Justin Upton are each injured. They besides didn’t person Shohei Ohtani due to the fact that there’s nary DH successful the National League park.
The Angels besides started the crippled without All-Star Jared Walsh, who got the time disconnected against the left-handed Snell. Catcher Kurt Suzuki, the weaker hitting of their 2 catchers, was down the plate.
Fletcher was the lone subordinate from the Opening Day lineup who started connected Tuesday night. Suzuki and Juan Lagares were the lone others who were adjacent successful the large leagues connected Opening Day.
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