ANAHEIM, Calif. — Jo Adell drove in an early run and had two hits, and José Soriano pitched six resourceful innings in the Los Angeles Angels' 2-1 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Saturday night.
Four Angels pitchers held Seattle scoreless for the final eight innings, with Carlos Estévez pitching the ninth for his 17th save. Los Angeles has limited the first-place Mariners to one earned run in the last 16 innings of this series, with the Angels winning both games.
''Pitching, defense, timely hitting,'' Angels manager Ron Washington said. ''That's what it was. We played a solid ballgame.''
Soriano (5-7) gave up just one run despite allowing five hits and four walks and hitting two batters with wildly off-the-mark pitches. In his third start since returning from a back injury, he struck out five and ended Mariners rallies in three of the first five innings by retiring Luke Raley three times, stranding eight runners in the process.
''I was attacking the zone,'' Soriano said through an interpreter. ''I was commanding pitches. I had a little bit of turbulence, but I passed through it.''
Julio Rodríguez had an RBI single in the first inning for the Mariners, who have lost two straight after winning the first three games of their Southern California road trip.
George Kirby (7-7) yielded just three hits and one earned run over six innings for Seattle, striking out seven.
''They threw some really good pitching at us tonight,'' Mariners manager Scott Servais said. ''It came down to (the fact) we made an error in the middle of the field, which we typically don't do, and we just weren't able to overcome it. We had some chances against Soriano, but we needed to come up with a big hit, and we didn't do that tonight. Uncharacteristic play for us.''
