Angels top M's, get closer in AL West
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Mark Trumbo hit a two-run homer and RBI double 3, in the opener of a three-game series.
Dan Haren (14-8) got the win after limiting Seattle to three runs on 10 hits in six innings.
"It was a battle from the get-go. I didn't have my best stuff, obviously," Haren said. "I couldn't find the release point. My offense picked me up."
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Vernon Wells also homered for Los Angeles, which climbed within 2 1/2 games of AL West-leading Texas. The Rangers lost to Tampa Bay earlier Monday.
Seattle rookie left-hander Anthony Vasquez (1-2), making his third career start, suffered the loss after being knocked around by the Angels again.
He had faced the Angels on August 30 and allowed eight runs -- seven earned -- in four innings. On Monday, he gave up seven runs -- six earned -- in 5 2/3 innings.
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Brendan Ryan hit a homer for the Mariners, who have dropped five in a row.
"We were sloppy all day today," said Seattle manager Eric Wedge. "Vasquez deserved a better fate. We swung the bats well, a positive. Vasquez, a positive. We're still working to put it all together."
Justin Smoak's RBI single put Seattle on the board in the first inning, and Josh Bard had a run-scoring base hit in the second.
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But in comparison to the single runs, the Angels scored in bigger bursts. In the opening inning, Peter Bourjos doubled and scored on Torii Hunter's two-out triple.
Trumbo followed by slugging a low pitch -- nearly in the dirt -- over the left-center field wall.
Then, in the third inning, Vasquez hit Maicer Izturis with a pitch before walking Bourjos. A run scored when third baseman Kyle Seager committed a fielding error on Howie Kendrick's batted ball, leaving runners on the corners.
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Hunter followed with a sacrifice fly and Trumbo hit an RBI double, making it 6-2.
Ryan hit his homer in the fifth, but the Mariners couldn't make up the deficit despite outhitting (11-7) the Angels.
Wells added his homer in the sixth.
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Game Notes
The Angels have won 18 of the last 21 games vs. the Mariners in Anaheim...LA shortstop Erick Aybar extended his hit streak to 15 games with an eighth- inning single...Haren had lost his last two starts, though gave up only two runs in 7 2/3 innings against the Mariners in his most recent outing (August 31).