Mazzaro, Royals Shut Down Angels 9-0

ANAHEIM (AP) -- Vin Mazzaro pitched seven stellar innings and the Kansas City Royals turned five double plays to beat the Los Angeles Angels 9-0 on Sunday in the rubber game of the three-game series.

Alex Gordon, Billy Butler and Chris Getz each drove in two runs for the Royals, who won seven of their 10 meetings with the Angels -- just the second time they've taken a season series from them in the last 15 years. It was their highest victory total against the Halos since 1996, when they won eight of 12.

Mazzaro (1-1) scattered five hits, walked five and did not strike out a batter in his third start with Kansas City. He pitched to contact throughout the game, inducing double-play grounders by Torii Hunter, Howie Kendrick, Mark Trumbo and Bobby Abreu. Hank Conger lined into the other one.

The Royals' 24-year-old right-hander also escaped a bases-loaded jam in the seventh by retiring Peter Bourjos on a fielder's choice with his 102nd pitch. Blake Wood worked the final two innings, helping send the Angels to their ninth shutout loss - matching their total from all of last season.

Mazzaro came in with a whopping 17.47 ERA after giving up 22 earned runs, 25 hits and eight walks in just 11 1/3 innings this season spanning three appearances.

Rookie Tyler Chatwood (3-4) threw 82 pitches in 3 2-3 innings, giving up five runs, five hits and three walks while the Angels lost for the seventh time in eight games. The Royals got their first run in the second inning when Mitch Maier drew a leadoff walk and was balked home by the right-hander, chased during Kansas City's four-run fourth.

Matt Treanor hit an RBI double and Getz followed with the first of his two run-scoring singles. Treanor was thrown out at the plate on a grounder to first by Alcides Escobar, but Gordon lined an 0-2 pitch to left-center for a double that scored two runs and gave Kansas City a 5-0 cushion before Hisanori Takahashi was summoned from the bullpen.

This was the third straight start by Chatwood in which his teammates didn't score while he was in the game.

Before the game, Los Angeles optioned reliever Kevin Jepsen to Triple-A Salt Lake and recalled infielder Andrew Romine from their Triple-A club to give the club some infield depth. Third baseman Alberto Callaspo, who pulled his left hamstring on the back end of a double-steal in the Angels' 7-5 win Saturday night, will be rested for the next several days until the club decides if he needs to go on the disabled list.

Notes

Hunter's double-play grounder was his 18th, the most in the majors, and just four shy of his total last season with 92 games left on the schedule. ... The last time the Angels hit into this many double plays in a nine-inning game was Aug. 3, 2004, when Minnesota executed six against them in Carlos Silva's complete-game 10-0 victory at the Metrodome. ... The Halos hit the road for their next 12 games, two wins shy of 4,000 for the franchise during the regular season. The trip ends with three games up the freeway at Dodger Stadium. ... Mazzaro came in 1-2 lifetime against the Angels with a 5.92 ERA. ... Angels TV analyst Mark Gubicza, who spent the 1997 season with the Halos and was a member of the Royals' 1985 World Series championship team, threw a ceremonial first pitch. ... The switch-hitting Callaspo is batting .268 with five homers and 41 RBI in 120 games with the Angels after joining them in a trade from Kansas City on July 22, 2010. In three seasons with the Royals, he hit .293 with 19 homers and 132 RBI in 317 games. ... Kevin Uhlich, in his fifth season as the Royals' senior vice president of business operations, spent 28 seasons in the Angels' organization -- starting as a bat boy in 1976 and ending up in the same role he currently has with Kansas City.