Cal Raleigh homered from both sides of the plate and drove in four runs as the Seattle Mariners demolished the Los Angeles Angels 11-0 on Thursday in the opener of a four-game series at Anaheim, Calif.
Raleigh, who finished 3-for-5, went deep as a left-handed and right-handed hitter in the same game for the third time in his career and the second time in three days. He performed the feat against the San Diego Padres on Tuesday.
J.P. Crawford went 3-for-4 with a homer and three RBIs and Julio Rodriguez was 3-for-3 as Seattle’s offense, the weakest in the majors — coming in with a .217 team batting average — set a season high for scoring.
Seattle starter Luis Castillo (8-9) tossed six innings, allowing four hits with two walks and five strikeouts. Mike Baumann handled the seventh inning and Eduard Bazardo pitched the last two frames to complete the shutout.
The AL West-leading Mariners won their third game in a row, but it was just their fifth win in 11 contests. The Angels lost for the ninth time in 11 games after a six-game winning streak at the end of June.
Angels right-hander Jack Kochanowicz, making his major league debut, gave up hits to the game’s first four batters. Josh Rojas knocked in Crawford with a single for the game’s first run.
Seattle went up 2-0 later in the inning when Angels third baseman Luis Guillorme threw away what could have been an inning-ending double play on Ty France’s infield chopper. Jorge Polanco’s liner to the left-center-field gap drove in two for a 4-0 edge.
Raleigh hooked a homer around the foul pole in right for a 5-0 lead in the third.
A two-run homer by Crawford, a liner into the right field bleachers off lefty reliever Kenny Rosenberg, stretched Seattle’s lead to 7-0 in the fourth. It was Crawford’s eighth long ball of the year.
Crawford delivered an RBI single in the sixth before Raleigh struck again with another homer. Raleigh’s three-run, 397-foot blast to left off Rosenberg — his 19th homer of the season — made it 11-0.
Kochanowicz (0-1) lasted just three innings, giving up seven hits and five runs (four earned) with one strikeout and no walks. Rosenberg allowed six runs in six innings of relief.
The Mariners are 4-0 against Los Angeles this season, having swept the Angels in three games May 31-June 2 at Seattle.