Detroit Tigers vs Los Angeles Angels Box Score on May 12, 2017

The Sports Xchange
May 13, 2017

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Matt Shoemaker threw six scoreless innings, Luis Valbuena and Mike Trout both homered and the Los Angeles Angels cruised to a 7-0 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Friday night at Angel Stadium.

Shoemaker (2-2) gave up just three hits, struck out seven and walked one while making 94 pitches. He finished strong, retiring the last 10 batters he faced.

Valbuena homered in the second inning to give the Angels a 1-0 lead, and also singled in the fifth and seventh innings as part of the Angels' 14-hit attack. Cliff Pennington also had three hits for the Angels.

Tigers starter Jordan Zimmermann (3-2) was knocked around in his 5 1/3 innings, giving up five runs (four earned), 10 hits and three walks.

Blake Parker (seventh inning), David Hernandez (eighth) and Keynan Middleton (ninth) pitched the final three innings to complete the shutout, the Angels' second of the season. The first also was a combined effort.

Shoemaker, a Michigan native and resident, lowered his career ERA against Detroit to 0.83. He's the only Michigan-born starting pitcher to beat the Tigers in the last 12 years, the last being Derek Lowe in 2005.

The closest the Tigers came to scoring was in the second inning when they loaded the bases with no outs, but Shoemaker worked his way out of the jam.

Alex Avila struck out, Andrew Romine hit into a force play with Victor Martinez being thrown out at the plate, and Jose Iglesias struck out.

In the bottom of the second, the Angels grabbed a 1-0 lead against Zimmermann when Valbuena led off with a home run, his second of the season. A single by Kole Calhoun, a walk by Cameron Maybin and a single by Andrelton Simmons loaded the bases with no outs.

Martin Maldonado popped out for the first out before Cliff Pennington's infield single knocked in a run for a 2-0 lead.

The Angels increased their lead to 3-0 in the fourth inning on Maldonado's two-out, bloop RBI double that scored Maybin from second.

In the fifth, Yunel Escobar led off with a single for Los Angeles, but was still on first two outs later. Valbuena then hit a drive down the right-field line, where J.D. Martinez cut the ball off. Martinez, though, booted the ball for an error, allowing Escobar to score and putting the Angels up 4-0.

NOTES: Tigers OF J.D. Martinez was activated from the disabled list and was in the starting lineup. Martinez, out all season with a strained ligament in his right foot, went 1-for-3 with a single and two strikeouts. ... Tigers OF Jim Adduci was placed on the 10-day disabled list with a strained oblique muscle, suffered during batting practice on Thursday. Adduci had just started to get into a groove offensively, raising his season average to .318 with six hits in his past 17 at-bats over his last five games. ... Mike Trout started in CF for the first time since May 5 because of a sore left hamstring. He initially hurt the hamstring running down a fly ball on May 3 in Seattle. ... Angels DH Albert Pujols has 144 RBIs going back to the start of the 2016, the most in the American League.