Cole Young Ends a Marathon in the 10th, Mariners Edge Angels in Pitcher's Duel

Nobody was scoring Friday night at Angel Stadium. Not in the first nine innings, anyway. Bryan Woo was dealing like a magician, the Angels couldn't get anything going, and we're sitting there watching a scoreless tie stretch deeper and deeper into the night. Then the 10th inning happened, and Cole Young changed everything with one swing.

Young drilled an RBI triple off the right-field wall on the second pitch of the 10th, scoring automatic runner Luke Raley to snap the deadlock. Josh Naylor followed with a two-run single, and just like that, the Mariners walked out of Anaheim with a 3-1 victory. Gabe Speier closed it out with his second career save, even though Mike Trout managed to score on Jorge Soler's sacrifice fly.

Woo's Seven Innings of Brilliance Kept Seattle in It

Bryan Woo was the real star of this show. Seven innings, one hit, six strikeouts, and he set down his last 12 batters straight. He even matched the longest scoreless start of his career. The only damage came early when he hit Trout in the shoulder in the first inning. After that? Nothing. Oswald Peraza got the Angels' only hit in the third on a popup down the right-field line, and that was basically it for Los Angeles.

Reid Detmers was nearly as sharp for the Angels, throwing six and two-thirds innings of three-hit ball with four walks. But in a game where runs were basically illegal, Detmers' effort wasn't enough. The Mariners managed only four hits in the first nine innings before breaking through with three in the 10th off new Angels reliever Brent Suter.

Neither Team Could Get the Job Done for Nine Hours

This was a grind. Los Angeles couldn't get a runner into scoring position the entire night. Seattle had back-to-back hits with one out in the fourth and still came up empty. Andrés Muñoz pitched the ninth in his first appearance in six days, and the Mariners' bullpen was absolutely dominant, retiring the Angels' final 21 batters.

The Mariners improved to 4-4 on the road while the Angels dropped to 3-5 at home. Next up: Emerson Hancock (1-0, 0.00 ERA) takes the mound for Seattle after throwing six hitless innings in a stellar debut last week. He'll face Jack Kochanowicz (0-0, 11.25), who struggled through four innings in his season debut down in Houston.

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