Angels’ Matt Shoemaker leaves after being hit by line drive

“It’s kind of like ‘(Forget about) baseball, who cares about the game?'” he said.

Shoemaker dropped to his knees, as trainers from both dugouts raced to see him.

Shoemaker was hit on the right side of his head with one out in the second inning on a line drive from Seager.

The ball off the bat of Kyle Seager was 105 miles per hour. Luckily for him, he was able to at least turn his head, as opposed to being hit directly in the face.

NOTES: Angels 3B Yunel Escobar came out of Saturday’s game after one pitch with a contusion on the back of his left hand and is day-to-day. He’ll stay over night for observation and meet with a neurologist on Tuesday.

“Obviously, it’s not the start we were looking for or he was looking for”, Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. He was down for several minutes and was bleeding from the spot where he was hit. Rightfully so, once you could see the replay. “That was really bad”. Angels’ relief pitcher Deolis Guerra took Shoemaker’s place atop the mound. The Mariners won five of seven to climb a season-best 10 games over.500 on August 22 – pulling within six games of Texas in the American League West and one game of Baltimore for the last wild-card spot – but their recent slide has widened those gaps to 12 1/2 and five, respectively.

Shoemaker eventually walked off the field with trainers on either side. Offensively, Robinson Cano leads Seattle with 165 hits, Kyle Seager has 86 RBI and Nelson Cruz has 34 home runs.

However Major League Baseball pitcher Matt Shoemaker of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim might have trouble keeping his mind off it in the future after facing that possibility head on.

“I don’t think about that”, Pujols said. “We had guys on. He threw fastballs and it wasn’t big velocity and it got hit, without much of a secondary pitch to complement it”.

Taijuan Walker went 0.2 innings tonight and gave up 6 runs (5 earned) on 6 hits while striking out 1. The Seattle Mariners have an ERA of 4.14 and have lost 10 of their last 12 games when allowing more than three runs. After throwing a pitch that led to a 3-0 count to Mike Trout, Iwakuma winced and reached for his lower abdomen.

The Angels picked up another run in the eight on a RBI single from Andrelton Simmons off reliever Dan Altavilla. Iwakuma went seven innings, giving up eight hits and the three runs.

Seattle added depth to its overused bullpen by activating RHP Drew Storen and recalling LHP David Rollins on Sunday.

Angels: Jered Weaver (10-11) makes his 27th start as the Angels open a series in Oakland.

The Seattle Mariners could use a win after losing 10 of their last 13 games.