SEATTLE —
Andrew Heaney’s favorite pitch is an elevated fastball.
On Friday, he just didn’t get his fastball elevated enough.
Three times, the Seattle Mariners hit home runs off the Angels’ left-handed starter in their 7-4 win at T-Mobile Park. All three times, it was a fastball up, but not out of the zone that was hammered out of the yard.
Those were the type of fine margins that doomed the Angels in Friday’s series opener.
Albert Pujols twice watched loud fly balls die at the track. Mike Trout and Anthony Rendon were called out on borderline strikes in back-to-back at-bats in the top of the sixth.