Angels pitcher Hector Santiago gave up two earned runs on five hits and one walk in 4 1/3 innings while striking out six in his team's 12-2 win over the Brewers Wednesday.
Santiago had a long wait after pitching two scoreless innings to open the game as his offense delivered eight runs in the bottom of the second. "Last year, when I was pitching, we didn't have very many big innings," Santiago told MLB.com after the start. "So, it's been a while. Now I know what it feels like to sit down for so long, and it seems like we're going to do that a lot. I'll take 40-minute innings all the time, as long as we're scoring some runs."
Santiago entered play Wednesday having allowed only an unearned run, and he owns a 1.64 ERA and 14:3 K:BB ratio through 11 innings.