ANAHEIM Michael Taylor Jersey , Calif. (AP) — Dee Gordon did a happy dance while sitting on the warning track, and the display that was at least nine months in the making inspired an ear-to-ear grin long after it happened.Gordon not only robbed Mike Trout of extra bases in center field during the fourth inning Friday, he delivered some insurance runs with a two-run single in the seventh during the Seattle Mariners‘ 5-0 victory over the Los Angeles Angels.Asked if the two-run single or the catch made his day, Gordon answered “the catch,” as if he anticipated the question.“That was pretty cool; that was like the first one in my life,” said Gordon, who insisted his glove was over the wall, robbing Trout of his 34th home run. “I was happy.”The catch, by a player who has primarily been a middle infielder, ended up preserving a shutout that was fashioned by six relief pitchers. The bullpen day was needed to fill in for scheduled starter James Paxton, who is dealing with a bout of pneumonia.Roenis Elias gave up just one hit over 3 2/3 innings as the starter. Adam Warren (3-2) got four outs and Shawn Armstrong, Nick Vincent, Zach Duke and Ryan Cook each pitched an inning.Making just his third start of the season and first since Aug. 19, Elias struck out four and walked two while throwing 58 pitches. In seven previous innings against the Angels this season http://www.nationalsfanproshop.com/authentic-shawn-kelley-jersey , Elias had given up one run on six hits with three strikeouts, all in relief.Elias said he found out he was starting at around before noon Friday.“They didn’t give me a lot of time but I was ready because I knew something could happen,” Elias said through an interpreter.The Mariners went ahead to stay against Matt Shoemaker in the fourth inning. Robinson Cano singled in Mitch Haniger for his 13th RBI in 27 games since being reinstated from an 80-game drug suspension.With two out and runners on second and third, Ryon Healy made it 3-0 with a ground ball into left field.That early Mariners momentum was preserved when Gordon made the kind of catch he had been dreading when he worked on his outfield play in the offseason. Knowing he might play some outfield this season, Gordon worked briefly on catches against a chain-link fence, but quickly abandoned the workouts.His dance after making the catch, then, was a combination of relief and a sense accomplishment.“He likes to celebrate and he is the king of celebration,” Mariners manager Scott Servias said. “I think it’s great. He does enjoy it and he should. It’s a hard game and when something goes your way, or you make a great play, you have to have fun with it.”The Mariners have won the first two games of the series to improve to 10-7 against Angels, clinching the season series. The Mariners won consecutive games for the first time since Aug. 24-25.ALL GOOD FOR SHOEMAKERIn his third start since coming off the disabled list after being sidelined by a right forearm strain, Shoemaker (2-1) went 4 2/3 innings. He threw just 77 pitches as the Angels try to limit his usage.The right-hander was visited by manager Mike Scioscia and a member of the Angels medical staff in the fifth inning, but remained in the game. In 14 2/3 innings since returning from the DL Trea Turner Jersey , Shoemaker has a 3.68 ERA.“Everything is all good,” Shoemaker said. “I think probably just in that fourth inning, I haven’t had a long inning like that in a long time, so I was a little tired going out to the fifth. After the first hitter, it wore off, the adrenaline kicked in and I got back into rhythm.”ANGELS IN SUMMARYTrout was named team MVP, and left-hander Andrew Heaney received the Nick Adenhart Award winner for excellence both off the field and on the mound. Adenhart was an Angels rookie pitcher in 2009 when he was killed in a car crash following his first start of the season.The Angels also announced Friday they have surpassed the 3 million mark in tickets sold, reaching the milestone for the 16th consecutive season.TRAINER’S ROOMMariners: SS Jean Segura returned to the starting lineup after missing three games with a virus. … OF Cameron Maybin is with the team but remains out of action with an unspecified illness. … Paxton is expected to rejoin the team in a few days. … RHP Felix Hernandez (hamstring) is expected to return to the rotation before the end of the season.Angels: LHP Tyler Skaggs (left adductor strain) will rejoin the Angels on Saturday, when he will be evaluated to see if he can return to the rotation next week.UP NEXTMariners RHP Erasmo Ramirez (2-3, 5.31 ERA) and Heaney (9-9, 3.98 ERA) pitch on Saturday. Ramirez is 2-1 with a 3.68 ERA in six starts since coming off the disabled list after being sidelined by a strained right shoulder. Heaney struck out a career-high 12 in seven scoreless innings in a 1-0 victory against the Chicago White Sox last Sunday. SAN DIEGO (AP) If he keeps pitching this well, Derek Rodriguez will be in the discussion for the NL Rookie of the Year Award.”That would be one thing that my dad never got, so that would be nice,” Rodridguez http://www.nationalsfanproshop.com/authentic-matt-wieters-jersey , the son of Hall of Famer Ivan Rodriguez, said after pitching seven strong innings in the San Francisco Giants‘ 3-2, 10-inning victory against the staggering San Diego Padres on Tuesday.Brandon Crawford singled in the go-ahead run with two outs in the 10th inning and Andrew McCutchen homered for the Giants, who swept the two-game series and won their third straight game.Rodriguez was in line for his sixth victory against one loss before Reyes Moronta allowed the Padres to tie it at 2 in the eighth on Manuel Margot’s RBI grounder.Rodriguez held San Diego to one run and three hits while striking out a career-high seven and walking three. It was the second time in 10 big league starts that he went seven innings.Rodriguez settled down after allowing Wil Myers‘ single and Eric Hosmer’s RBI double with two outs in the first. The Padres got a runner as far as second only one other time against Rodriguez.He gave the Giants a solid effort a day after they had to go 13 innings to beat the Padres. Rodriguez threw 112 pitches.”I just went out there and pitched my game. They asked me in the top of the seventh if I felt good and I did and I went out there for the seventh,” he said. ”I don’t think I’ve ever thrown that many pitches in my life. That was a good one.”Manager Bruce Bochy marveled about how reliable Rodriguez has been since making his big league debut on May 29. His 2.59 ERA ranks first among NL rookie pitchers.“It’s a shame we couldn’t get a win for him with that effort,” Bochy said. ”But we had some tough luck. The first five innings we hit the ball hard but didn’t have much to show for it. He kept it close.”The Padres lost their seventh straight, dropped to 2-9 since the All-Star break and lost for the 14th time in 16 games. San Diego finished July at 5-20, their second worst month by percentage in club history.”It’s been a struggle,” Padres manager Andy Green said. ”Those guys in there are giving absolutely everything they’ve got. I think the harder thing for us has been flushing the previous days and not letting that carry-over effect, kind of the hangover effect, of not getting it done, impact the next day’s at-bats. It’s human nature. As professionals at this level we got to do a better job flushing that, leaving that behind.”Evan Longoria tripled leading off the 10th against Phil Maton (0-2) and scored on Crawford’s single to right.Tony Watson (4-4) pitched a perfect ninth for the win, and Will Smith pitched the 10th for his sixth save.McCutchen homered to right leading off the fifth versus lefty Clayton Richard Joe Blanton Jersey , his 11th. Gorkys Hernandez hit a sacrifice fly in the fourth.Richard allowed two runs and five hits in five innings, walked three and struck out one.Green said the pitching staff kept the team in the game.”Can’t expect a staff to hold a team down into extra innings every single day and give the opportunity to keep coming back,” he said. ”We’ve just got to string together a lot more constructive at-bats if we want to win baseball games.”TRAINER’S ROOMPadres: Placed rookie LHP Eric Lauer on the 10-day disabled list with a strained left forearm and recalled RHP Walker Lockett from Triple-A El-Paso.STILL HEREReliever Kirby Yates, who pitched the ninth, had been one of a trio of Padres pitchers rumored to be on the trade block. None of them were moved.”I mean, honestly I didn’t think anything was going to happen,” Yates said. ”I want to be part of this movement that sticks around for the next few years.”UP NEXTGiants: LHP Madison Bumgarner (3-4, 3.06) is scheduled to start the opener of a four-game series at Arizona on Thursday night.Padres: LHP Robbie Erlin (1-3, 3.47) is scheduled to start the opener of a four-game series at the Chicago Cubs on Thursday night. He replaces Luis Perdomo, who went on the disabled list with a shoulder injury Saturday.—