One bad inning sinks Angels in loss to Padres

SAN DIEGO — The Angels’ 8-5 nonaccomplishment to the Padres connected Wednesday nighttime came down to 2 pitchers having lousy nights.

Sam Selman and Jake Petricka, 2 of the 3 relievers the Angels utilized successful the 2nd inning of a bullpen game, combined to let 7 consecutive hitters to scope basal successful 1 nightmare sequence.

The effect was an eight-run inning that would outgo the Angels the game, though the remainder of the pitchers and a mates of the hitters would person decent nights aft it nary longer mattered.

Jo Adell deed a two-run homer successful the eighth inning, his 3rd homer successful 4 games. He besides had the cardinal deed successful the Angels’ triumph the nighttime before.

Brandon Marsh tripled and scored, Juan Lagares deed a two-run homer and Junior Guerra, José Quijada, Oliver Ortega and Andrew Wantz provided scoreless relief.

All that was overshadowed by what happened successful the 2nd inning.

Mike Mayers, who had started the game, recorded the 2nd retired of the inning with lone 1 tally scoring. Maddon past summoned the left-handed Selman to look the lefties astatine the apical of the Padres order, Trent Grisham and Jake Cronenworth.

Selman deed Grisham with a transportation and gave up a run-scoring azygous to Cronenworth. Then helium walked Manny Machado to load the bases.

Then it got truly ugly.

Petricka entered and walked Fernando Tatis Jr., Eric Hosmer and Wil Myers, each clip forcing successful a run. Petricka past threw a chaotic transportation to propulsion location different run.

He gave up a two-run azygous to Adam Frazier, completing the eight-run outburst.

Down 8-0 astatine that point, the Angels mostly had to conscionable get retired of municipality without getting anyone hurt, and adjacent that was a small dicey.

Adell was deed connected the wrist portion checking his plaything successful the 4th inning. He was visibly successful symptom arsenic helium walked gingerly successful foul territory, but helium yet got backmost into the container and struck out. He remained successful the crippled and showed that helium was OK erstwhile helium homered successful the eighth.

Adell’s nighttime was surely bully news, arsenic was the show of Ortega, who made his large league debut with 1-1/3 scoreless innings.

The 24-year-old began the play astatine Double-A. He was promoted to the large leagues erstwhile rosters expanded connected Sept. 1, but helium inactive had not pitched successful a crippled until Wednesday.

Ortega struck retired the archetypal hitter helium faced and worked astir a azygous successful the adjacent inning. His fastball was 97-98 mph successful his 17-pitch outing.

Ortega was the 62nd subordinate the Angels person utilized this season, extending the franchise record.

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