Silseth's Wild Pitches Open the Floodgates as Seattle Rolls 8-3
Seattle turned a scoreless game into a five-run sixth-inning avalanche — fueled in part by a pair of wild pitches — and never looked back, beating Los Angeles 8-3 on July 1. The Angels briefly made it interesting in the seventh, but Seattle answered immediately and put the game away for good.
The sixth inning was where this game was decided, and it wasn't pretty for the Angels' bullpen. Arozarena singled to left to score Rodríguez — the play that swung Seattle's win probability from 73% to 85% — and Young followed with an RBI single to make it 2-0. Then Silseth lost the strike zone entirely, uncorking wild pitches that allowed Arozarena to score and pushed the lead to 3-0. Wilson capped the frame with a single to right that scored both Raleigh and Young, and suddenly Seattle had a 5-0 cushion before the Angels had recorded a single run. Five runs, four singles, and a pair of wild pitches — that's the story of the sixth.
Los Angeles did fight back. In the seventh, a single to center scored one, and then Neto delivered a two-run single to center that scored two more and cut the deficit to 5-3. For a moment, the Angels looked like a team that hadn't given up. That moment lasted about half an inning. Seattle responded immediately in the bottom of the seventh: Emerson singled to left to score both Arozarena and Rodríguez, and Robles followed with another single to left to score Young. Four runs in the bottom of the seventh, and the game was effectively over at 8-3.
On the mound, Bryan Woo gave Seattle exactly what it needed — 6.1 innings, 4 hits, 2 earned runs, 1 walk, and 5 strikeouts. That's a quality start that kept the bullpen fresh and gave the offense room to operate. Jose Soriano was sharper than the line suggests — 9 strikeouts over 5 innings is genuinely impressive — but 6 hits and 3 earned runs meant he couldn't keep pace. Andres Munoz closed things out with a clean inning, 0 hits and 1 strikeout. Offensively, Emerson went 3-for-4 with 2 RBI, Julio Rodríguez went 3-for-5 and scored twice, and Arozarena went 2-for-4 with 2 runs scored. Seattle's lineup looks deep and dangerous right now — seven different players contributed to the scoring, and the Angels simply had no answer once the sixth inning got away from them.