ANAHEIM -- It had been a while since the Angels had one of their starting pitchers go deep into a game.

But right-hander Alex Cobb turned in a strong outing against his former club, throwing 7 2/3 innings to lead the Angels to a 4-1 win over the Orioles on Saturday night at Angel Stadium. It was the first time an Angels pitcher threw at least six innings since Shohei Ohtani on June 23, snapping a streak of seven straight subpar outings by the rotation.

The Angels have had just five starts of at least seven innings this year and Cobb owns three of them -- Ohtani and Dylan Bundy have the other two. It was the longest outing by Cobb since he threw a complete game on Aug. 18, 2018, with Baltimore, and the longest by an Angels pitcher this season.

"From the middle of the game yesterday, up to the game tonight, I knew that type of outing needed to be done," Cobb said. "I started us off, I feel like in Tampa [on June 26], coming out early and putting our team behind. We've fallen into a little trend of that the last couple times through the rotation. But credit to the bullpen for keeping us in these games and giving the offense a chance to come back."

Cobb had his sinker, curveball and splitter combination working, as he allowed one run on four hits and one walk, with six strikeouts. He recorded 13 outs via grounders, including double plays to end the fourth and seventh innings. Over 12 starts, Cobb is now 6-3 with a 4.60 ERA.

“The front hip two-seam to lefties and backdoor fastball to righties were my bread and butter today,” Cobb said. “ I was working on toying with a different grip with the curveball early on, and it wasn't really landing, and then later in the game I went with my more conventional one. That helped a lot. And then earlier in the game, [I] showed them my split was there, kept them honest with that. And went back to that two-seam, which was probably the best it's been all year for me."

Cobb threw a season-high 112 pitches -- one more than his previous high set on June 18 against Detroit -- and mostly pitched to contact. He registered 10 swinging strikes, including five with his splitter and three with his curve. He was never really in trouble outside of the third inning, when he walked Domingo Leyba to open the frame and gave up a single to Ramón Urías to put runners at the corners with nobody out.

Cobb got Pat Valaika to hit a weak grounder to third baseman Anthony Rendon, who opted to try to start a double play instead of throwing home to get the lead runner. Valaika beat it out for an RBI forceout, but Cobb limited the damage by getting Cedric Mullins to ground out and Austin Hays to fly out to right to end the inning.

"The fastball was really alive,” Angels manager Joe Maddon said. “I thought he had really good command of it. The sink looked really strong. And I thought his knuckle-curve was outstanding. And he wasn't relying so much on his split. I've always loved his curveball. I think it's a stellar pitch."

Maddon opted to bring back Cobb for the eighth despite the right-hander's pitch count being at 100 pitches. Cobb quickly retired the first two batters he faced, but he was lifted from the game after giving up a two-out single to Urías. Steve Cishek came in and gave up an infield single to Valaika and then struck out Mullins to strand the runners.

"Mullins was an uncomfortable at-bat," Maddon said. "This guy's got great pop. Historically, you could've gone to a lefty there. But the three-batter minimum impacts the strategy. But the bullpen got it done tonight."

Closer Raisel Iglesias threw a 1-2-3 ninth with two strikeouts to record his 16th save and has now retired 24 consecutive batters over his last six outings, including 15 strikeouts. He’s a candidate to be selected as an All-Star and Maddon has been impressed by his recent run.

"Great command," Maddon said. "His fastball is as good as it's been all year, throwing 97-98. He can drop it down a little bit. And you see the swings and misses on the slider. He cannot be more confident."