Angels’ Reid Detmers allows 7 runs to 115-loss White Sox

Detmers gives up seven runs in 5⅓ innings in an 8-4 loss to a historically awful Chicago team, a disappointing outing after he had allowed four runs in 12 innings in his previous two starts.

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Sep 17, 2024 - 10:00
Angels’ Reid Detmers allows 7 runs to 115-loss White Sox
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    The Angels’ Gustavo Campero runs after hitting an RBI single for his first major league hit during the seventh inning of their game against the Chicago White Sox on Monday night at Angel Stadium. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)

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The Angels’ Gustavo Campero runs after hitting an RBI single for his first major league hit during the seventh inning of their game against the Chicago White Sox on Monday night at Angel Stadium. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)

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ANAHEIM — After two encouraging starts – against contenders – Reid Detmers turned in a dud against a historically awful team.

The Angels left-hander gave up seven runs in an 8-4 loss to the Chicago White Sox, who have lost 115 games.

The White Sox might be just six losses away from breaking the dubious record set by the 1962 New York Mets, but they still hammered Detmers. He gave up three runs in the first – on two homers – and then three more in the second.

Detmers gave up a third homer in the third inning, before settling down to get 10 more outs without further damage. He made it through 5⅓ innings.

“They’re still big leaguers,” Detmers said of the White Sox. “If you leave it over the plate, they’re gonna hit home runs. So you can’t leave pitches down the middle. Obviously, the pitches I had on the corners, they were fouling them off. Just trying to get a little too cute with it, leaving them over the plate. That’s when you give up home runs.”

Detmers had given up four runs in 12 innings in consecutive outings against the Dodgers and Minnesota Twins in his first two starts after returning from a three-month stint in Triple-A.

Angels manager Ron Washington said it was clear Detmers didn’t have the same command this time, and then he wasn’t able to adjust once he fell behind.

“Tonight it looked like he was fighting himself,” Washington said. “You can see the body language out there. He didn’t have the feel for the things he wanted to do. And when it didn’t happen, he didn’t stay focused and try to make it happen. Looked like he just gave in to it. That’s the type of thing that he’s got to fight. We all know what his ability is, but the mental side of it is where he has to fight.”

Offensively, the Angels got a pair of homers. Eric Wagaman (Aliso Niguel High, Orange Coast College) hit his first major league homer in the second. Charles Leblanc hit a homer in the fifth.

Gustavo Campero picked up his first major league hit with an RBI single in the seventh, pulling the Angels within 8-4.

The Angels (60-90) have lost their last six games and are 30 games under .500 for the first time since 1999. This is the quickest (150 games) they have reached 90 losses in franchise history.

With 10 consecutive losing seasons, the Angels are trying to avoid having the most losses in franchise history. They twice lost 95 games in a season – in 1968 and 1980.

Andrew Benintendi homered twice and drove in four runs for the White Sox, who have their first three-game winning streak in nearly three months. It is only the fourth time the White Sox have won at least three in a row – and the first since June 27-29, when they beat Atlanta and Colorado. Chicago took two of three from Oakland over the weekend to snap a string of 20 consecutive series losses. On Tuesday night, Chicago will try to match its season-high winning streak of four, which happened May 8-11 against Tampa Bay and Cleveland.

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