ANAHEIM -- Take a deep breath, Angels fans. The seven-game losing streak is finally over.
And the bullpen came through this time in a big way with Sam Bachman recording five critical outs and Ryan Zeferjahn getting six more to set the stage for a walk-off RBI single from Oswald Peraza in a much-needed 4-3 win over the Mets in 10 innings on Saturday night at Angel Stadium. It was just the club’s second victory over its last 13 games.
Peraza was the hero, as he came through with two outs in the 10th despite being down, 0-2, in the count against former Angels reliever Austin Warren. Peraza dropped in an RBI single after Josh Lowe and Vaughn Grissom couldn’t come through with the bases loaded.
With the Angels clinging to a two-run lead in the seventh, they stuck with lefty Reid Detmers, who had allowed one run over six innings and was at 80 pitches. But Detmers gave up a leadoff double to Mark Vientos and a single to Marcus Semien to open the inning. He then gave up a sacrifice fly to Andy Ibáñez before Tyrone Taylor tied the game with a one-out single.
After Detmers surrendered a pair of infield singles, the Angels turned to Bachman with the bases loaded and one out. But Bachman was able to get out of the jam by getting Bo Bichette to ground out to third with Peraza firing home for the second out before Bachman struck out Juan Soto on a slider to escape the jam.
Bachman went back out for the eighth and fired a 1-2-3 inning with two strikeouts before handing it over to Zeferjahn, who threw a perfect ninth. But the Angels couldn’t score in the bottom of the frame despite a one-out double from Yoán Moncada, and Zeferjahn was brought back out to pitch the 10th despite his struggles in multi-inning stints this year.
Zeferjahn, though, was able to get through a scoreless 10th, despite Brett Baty reaching on catcher interference to open the frame. It helped set up a ground-ball double play from Bichette before Zeferjahn got Francisco Alvarez to pop out to second after intentionally walking Soto.