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Los Angeles Angels’ Shohei Ohtani, center, poses aft being presented with the Angels Most Valuable Player grant and the Nick Adenhart Pitcher of the Year anterior to a shot crippled against the Seattle Mariners Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021, successful Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Los Angeles Angels designated hitter Shohei Ohtani kneels connected 2nd basal aft advancing from archetypal connected a azygous by Phil Gosselin during the 3rd inning of a shot crippled against the Seattle Mariners Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021, successful Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Los Angeles Angels designated hitter Shohei Ohtani rounds archetypal connected his mode to a triple during the 3rd inning of a shot crippled against the Seattle Mariners Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021, successful Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Los Angeles Angels designated hitter Shohei Ohtani, right, yells aft sliding into 3rd for a an RBI triple up of the tag of Seattle Mariners 3rd baseman Kyle Seager during the 3rd inning of a shot crippled Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021, successful Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Los Angeles Angels designated hitter Shohei Ohtani, right, slides into 3rd for a an RBI triple up of the tag of Seattle Mariners 3rd baseman Kyle Seager during the 3rd inning of a shot crippled Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021, successful Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Los Angeles Angels’ Brandon Marsh, left, collides with location sheet umpire Alan Porter, center, arsenic helium scores connected a triple by Shohei Ohtani during the archetypal inning of a shot crippled against the Seattle Mariners Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021, successful Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Los Angeles Angels’ Luis Rengifo, close gestures portion scoring aft hitting a solo location tally arsenic Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh stands astatine the sheet during the 2nd inning of a shot crippled Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021, successful Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Los Angeles Angels designated hitter Shohei Ohtani drops his bat arsenic helium hits and RBI triple during the archetypal inning of a shot crippled against the Seattle Mariners Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021, successful Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Los Angeles Angels designated hitter Shohei Ohtani runs to archetypal arsenic helium hits and RBI triple during the archetypal inning of a shot crippled against the Seattle Mariners Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021, successful Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Los Angeles Angels’ Brandon Marsh, left, collides with location sheet umpire Alan Porter, center, arsenic helium scores connected a triple by Shohei Ohtani portion Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh stands astatine the sheet during the archetypal inning of a shot crippled Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021, successful Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Los Angeles Angels designated hitter Shohei Ohtani hits an RBI triple during the archetypal inning of a shot crippled against the Seattle Mariners Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021, successful Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Los Angeles Angels halfway fielder Brandon Marsh makes a drawback connected a alert shot astatine the partition that was deed by Seattle Mariners’ Mitch Haniger during the archetypal inning of a shot crippled Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021, successful Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Los Angeles Angels halfway fielder Brandon Marsh, left, tosses the shot to halfway fielder Juan Lagares aft making a drawback connected a alert shot astatine the partition that was deed by Seattle Mariners’ Mitch Haniger during the archetypal inning of a shot crippled Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021, successful Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Los Angeles Angels designated hitter Shohei Ohtani stands connected 3rd aft hitting an Rbi triple during the archetypal inning of a shot crippled against the Seattle Mariners Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021, successful Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Los Angeles Angels designated hitter Shohei Ohtani, left, is harmless astatine 3rd for an RBI triple arsenic Seattle Mariners 3rd baseman Kyle Seager, right, drops the shot during the archetypal inning of a shot crippled Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021, successful Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Los Angeles Angels designated hitter Shohei Ohtani, left, is greeted by Luis Rengifo, center, and Patrick Sandoval anterior to a shot crippled against the Seattle Mariners Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021, successful Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Los Angeles Angels’ Shohei Ohtani, center, is presented with the Angels Most Valuable Player grant by squad proprietor Artie Moreno, right, anterior to a shot crippled against the Seattle Mariners Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021, successful Anaheim, Calif. Ohtani besides received the Nick Adenhart Pitcher of the Year award. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Los Angeles Angels designated hitter Shohei Ohtani, left, is greeted by Luis Rengifo anterior to a shot crippled against the Seattle Mariners Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021, successful Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Los Angeles Angels starting pitcher Jaime Barria throws to the sheet during the archetypal inning of a shot crippled against the Seattle Mariners Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021, successful Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
ANAHEIM ― It began successful the archetypal inning of Thursday’s crippled against the Houston Astros. No 1 was connected basal erstwhile Luis Garcia walked Shohei Ohtani connected 4 pitches, oregon again erstwhile Garcia walked Ohtani connected 5 pitches aboriginal successful the game. There was a runner connected 2nd basal erstwhile Ohtani batted successful the seventh, and again successful the 10th, Ohtani drafting an intentional locomotion each time.
By Saturday it had go a moving taxable ― rather, a walking theme. No 1 knew erstwhile the Angels’ champion subordinate would get different bully transportation to hit.
Ohtani drew 2 much walks successful the Angels’ 14-1 triumph implicit the Seattle Mariners, matching yet different large league grounds for escaped passes. This 1 matched Babe Ruth (1930), Bryce Harper (2016) and Yasmani Grandal (2021) for the astir walks successful a four-game span, with 13.
This time, his teammates brought their bats.
Rookie Brandon Marsh, batting 1 spot up of Ohtani successful the leadoff hole, collected singles successful his archetypal 2 at-bats against Mariners starter Tyler Anderson. Each time, Ohtani followed with a triple. Neither Marsh nor Ohtani made an retired until their 5th sheet quality of the game, successful the sixth inning.
The subordinate hitting down Ohtani, Phil Gosselin, went 2 for 3 with 4 RBIs. The Angels’ number-6 hitter, Jared Walsh, went 4 for 5 with a brace of bases-loaded doubles.
That was much than capable discourtesy to flooded an wounded shortened commencement by Angels pitcher Jaime Barría. The right-hander was removed aft 2 efficient, scoreless innings with an wounded the squad called “arm fatigue.” Barría has thrown 105 2/3 innings this play aft throwing 32 1/3 successful the pandemic-shortened 2020 season.
Rookie left-hander Jhonathan Diaz (1-0) took implicit successful the 3rd inning and, incredibly, finished the crippled by himself. Diaz allowed lone 1 tally implicit 7 innings to gain his archetypal large league victory. He became the 20th antithetic Angels pitcher to gain a triumph this season, tossing a singular 98 pitches successful relief.
The Angels jumped retired to a 3-0 lead, past chased Anderson by scoring 8 runs successful the 3rd inning. Luis Rengifo deed a solo location tally during the onslaught, the Angels’ lone location tally among their 14 hits.
Before an announced assemblage of 30,221 astatine Angel Stadium, the Angels won their 2nd crippled successful 9 tries connected their last homestand of the season.
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