DETMERS DAZZLES
Left-hander delivers scoreless outing against Red Sox to improve to 3-0 after three starts
BOSTON » When Reid Detmers explained this spring why he was so confident in a bounceback season, he pinpointed the work he had done on his mechanics over the winter. He said it allowed him to self-diagnose when something was going wrong, so he could fix it during a game.
Friday's game was Exhibit A. Detmers said he didn't feel right at the beginning, but it was all clicking by the end of his
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6⅓ innings in the Angels' 7-0 victory over the Boston Red Sox.
“I was fighting myself a little bit,” Detmers said, “but I worked between innings and figured it out slowly and by the end of the game I had all my stuff back. You're going to have days like that. This offseason I figured out some stuff, and if I do have struggles, I can go back to that and get back on track.”
Detmers is the first Angels pitcher since Jered Weaver in 2011 to earn the victory in his first three games of the season. Detmers has allowed two earned runs in 17 1/3 innings, good for an ERA of 1.04.
Detmers struck out seven and walked two, throwing 64 strikes among his 98 pitches.
“He kept them off balance all night,” manager Ron Washington said. “Another great outing.”
Catcher Logan O'Hoppe, who has been behind the plate for each of Detmers' games this season, said the end result might have been similar, but the way he got there wasn't.
“In his pregame bullpen, his stuff wasn't there as much as it was at the end of the outing,” O'Hoppe said. “Obviously in the first inning, I thought it got much better, but he really figured it out. And then he was able to settle in and be the guy who