(MENAFN- Gulf Times) Mike Leake took a perfect game into the ninth inning and wound up with a one-hit shutout as the Seattle Mariners defeated the visiting Los Angeles Angels 10-0 on Friday night.
Luis Rengifo led off the ninth inning by grounding a single into right field, but Leake went on to finish a 98-pitch gem.
Daniel Vogelbach hit a pair of three-run homers as the Mariners snapped a six-game losing streak. Exactly one week earlier in Anaheim, Calif., Leake (8-8) had the shortest start of his 10-year career, lasting just two-thirds of an inning in a 13-0 loss in which the Mariners were no-hit.
He rebounded Friday by retiring the first 24 batters he faced before Rengifo hit a clean single on Leake's 79th pitch of the night. Kevan Smith then walked on four pitches, and the runners advanced on a groundout by Matt Thais.
Leake then got Brian Goodwin to pop out to second base and Mike Trout to strike out swinging to end the game. The 31-year-old right-hander fanned six.
Right-hander Taylor Cole opened for the Angels, pitching two scoreless innings. Cole combined with Felix Pena to no-hit the Mariners on July 12, the night the Angels honoured late teammate Tyler Skaggs.
Right-hander Jaime Barria (3-3) took over for the Angels in the third. He got through that inning, but allowed multiple runs in the fourth, fifth and sixth, and he wound up charged with 10 runs on nine hits in 3 2/3 innings.
Barria walked J.P. Crawford and Domingo Santana to begin the fourth before Vogelbach hit a 1-2 pitch over the wall in centre field. Omar Narvaez grounded a single into left off the glove of third baseman David Fletcher, and Kyle Seager doubled to right, putting runners on second and third. Tom Murphy then lined a two-run single to right, giving the Mariners a 5-0 lead.
Seattle extended the advantage in the fifth. Mallex Smith led off with a walk and, an out later, Santana walked again to bring up Vogelbach. This time the first baseman homered to right-centre field, his 23rd of the season.
Seattle scored twice more in the sixth. Murphy led off with a double to left and advanced to third on a one-out infield single by Dee Gordon. Crawford then lined a two-run double to right, making it 10-0.
Angels first baseman Albert Pujols missed the game due to left hamstring tightness. He is expected to return Saturday. Leake was seeking the 24th perfect game in major league history. The most recent perfecto was thrown by Seattle's Felix Hernandez in a 1-0 win over the Tampa Bay Rays on August 15, 2012.
Error scores only run in Giants' 10-inning win over Mets
Left fielder Dominic Smith misplayed Pablo Sandoval's two-out fly ball into an error in the bottom of the 10th inning, allowing Alex Dickerson to score from first base and give the host San Francisco Giants a second straight walk-off win over the New York Mets, 1-0 on Friday night.
The win was the Giants' season-best seventh in a row and came after starting pitchers Tyler Beede and Jacob deGrom left a scoreless game in the eighth inning.
Dickerson led off the 10th by drawing a walk from the Mets' third pitcher, Jacob Rhame (0-1).
Two outs later, Sandoval hit a catchable popup to left that Smith couldn't corral, with Dickerson speeding home to give the Giants their fifth walk-off win of the season. San Francisco beat New York 3-2 in 16 innings in the series opener Thursday on a Donovan Solano walk-off single.
Sam Dyson (4-1), who pitched a 1-2-3 top of the 10th, got the win. Each club collected just three hits.
The Mets, who endured their eighth walk-off loss of the season, lifted deGrom for a pinch hitter in the eighth. He allowed all three Giants hits and three walks in his seven innings, fanning out 10, his sixth double-digit-strikeout performance of the season.
The fifth strikeout allowed the 31-year-old to pass Ron Darling (1,148) for sixth place on the franchise's all-time strikeout list.
It was the fourth time this season that deGrom left a game after six or more innings in which he hadn't allowed a run. It was the second straight in which he was not rewarded with a win.
The Giants got a runner to second base three times against deGrom, including in the fifth inning on a two-out double by Kevin Pillar. No Giant reached third base against him.
Luis Avilan threw a scoreless eighth inning before Rhame took over in the ninth.
Beede left for a pinch hitter in the eighth inning even though he had produced one of the Giants' hits against deGrom.
The rookie went a career-best eight innings, allowing all three Mets hits. He walked one and struck out five.
In losing for the second straight time after a four-game winning streak, the Mets got only one runner as far as second base against Beede, that coming on a two-out double by Robinson Cano in the fourth.
Will Smith pitched a perfect ninth inning before handing off the ball to Dyson for the 10th. Pillar and Cano had the game's only extra-base hits.
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