SEATTLE — Their failures to hit with runners in scoring position for most of the night was halted long enough to give the fans at packed T-Mobile Park a reason to cheer after not having many reasons to do so for the first eight innings.
But after rallying from a three-run deficit in the bottom of the ninth to send the game to extra innings, the Seattle Mariners couldn’t score a free runner from second base in the bottom of the 10th inning to avoid a disappointing 4-3 loss to the Angels.
Inexplicably tied at 3-3 after nine innings, the Angels executed with perfection in the top of the 10th. With automatic runner Magnerius Sierra on second base and Paul Sewald on the mound for the Mariners, Andrew Velazquez bunted him to third and Taylor Ward hit a flyball deep enough to score the run.
