Mariners star Cano injured by warmup ball, Angels win 4-2
No one in the Seattle Mariners' dugout expected a ball to come flying in and hit Robinson Cano — the All-Star second baseman getting smacked on the left temple as the Los Angeles Angels' infielders were getting loose for the seventh inning of a 4-2 win Saturday.
Cano felt dizzy and was taken to the clubhouse, where the Mariners' medical staff checked the second baseman for a concussion.
Garrett Richards (8-5) pitched into the eighth inning, Kole Calhoun hit a two-run homer and third baseman David Freese made a couple of key defensive plays for the Angels.
The right-hander has given up four earned runs in 37 innings over his last five starts against Seattle and is 3-0 in those games.
Freese saved another run, making a diving stop to his right of Smith's ground single with the infield shifted way over against the lefty-swinging batter, and Cano grounded into a double play on the next pitch.
Seager led off the Seattle fifth with a single and advanced on a wild pitch before he was tagged out on an unassisted double play by Freese that ended the inning, after Freese caught Miller's line drive toward the hole.
Johnny Giavotella hit an RBI single, and Pujols scored on a groundout to make it 4-1.
Angels: SS Erick Aybar was not in the starting lineup for precautionary reasons because of tightness in his left hamstring, which he felt while running out a sacrifice bunt in the sixth inning of Friday night's 3-1 loss.