Brawl mars Angels’ triumph over Seattle in close battle
David MacKinnon’s twoout RBI single in the seventh inning snapped a 1-1 tie and lifted the Los Angeles Angels to a 2-1 victory over the Seattle Mariners in a fight-marred MLB game on Sunday.
The two teams exchanged solo home runs — Abraham Toro for the Mariners and Luis Rengifo for the Angels — before MacKinnon’s game-winner off Mariners reliever Andres Munoz helped the Angels end Seattle’s five-game winning streak.
The fight took place in the top of the second inning when Angels pitcher Andrew Wantz hit the Mariners’ Jesse Winker with a pitch on the right hip.
After taking a couple of steps towards the mound, Winker then moved towards the Angels dugout.
Wearing a cast on his surgically repaired right wrist, Anthony Rendon met Winkler with an open hand to the face and both benches and bullpens emptied as several skirmishes broke out.
The game resumed after an 18-minute delay, but with several ejections, including Angels interim manager Phil Nevin and Mariners manager Scott Servais.
Three players from each team were ejected — Wantz and relievers Raisel Iglesias and Ryan Tepera for the Angels, and Winker and fellow outfielder Julio Rodriguez and shortstop JP Crawford for the Mariners.
At New York, DJ LeMahieu hit a tying two-run homer with two outs in the eighth inning and Aaron Judge hit a three-run walk-off homer in the 10th as the Yankees went from potentially being no-hit for the second straight day to rallying for a 6-3 victory over Houston.
The Yankees gained a split of the series against Houston a day after Cristian Javier combined with Hector Neris and Ryan Pressly on a no-hitter on Saturday.
Both of the Yankees’ victories in the series have come via walk-off hits by Judge.
LeMahieu tied the game at 3-3 by lifting a 2-2 slider into the left field seats for his seventh homer of the season and the Yankees got their 10th walk-off win after Michael King (5-1) escaped a basesloaded jam in the top half.