\"That's the standard for me,\" Canning said via Zoom. \"It's something that I can come back to and watch this outing and kind of take all the good stuff from this outing and use it for myself going forward.\"\n\nCanning said the key was finding a new routine in between innings, as he’s now using a vibrating heating sleeve on his elbow to keep it warm. It’s something he plans to keep doing throughout the regular season. He also battled elbow problems as a rookie last year, and his season ended in mid-August.\n\n\"I'm just keeping it warm in between innings so it's not just sitting there and tightening up,” Canning said. \"It's just something I have to continue to manage and continue to find that routine that works for me. But it was definitely a step in the right direction finding that kind of thing that I can do between innings.\"
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Canning was also efficient, needing 76 pitches to get through his six frames. Of his 76 pitches, he got 15 called strikes and eight swinging strikes. He struck out Machado on four-seam fastballs twice, once in the first and again in the sixth with a runner at second and one out. His fastball averaged roughly 93 mph and topped out at 95 mph, per Statcast. But he was also pleased he was able to locate his slider and credited his control of his off-speed pitches for his success.\n\n\"I feel like \\[fastball command\\] is always a little bit better when I'm commanding my other pitches, just kind of almost sneaking it in there,\" Canning said. \"I was throwing a lot of offspeed early. I could kind of tell they were kind of sitting on that later on, so I was able to kind of sneak some fastballs in there and not necessarily have to be too fine with them just because I'd kind of done the work early on in the outing.\"
It was a solid showing from Canning, who is likely to be the Angels' fourth starter.
Trout looked locked in at the plate, walking in the first and ripping a double off Richards in the third that had an exit velocity of 111.1 mph, per Statcast. Even when Trout made an out in the fifth, it was on a line drive to Machado at third that left the bat at 101.1 mph.\n\n“He didn't hit a homer off me. I guess that's a win for me,” said Richards, who remains close friends with Trout. “But it just shows how good a hitter he is when you're facing him. I made some pretty good pitches tonight, and he hit the ball hard.”\n\n**Bonus baseball** \nThe Padres and Angels combined for only an unearned run over the first nine frames Monday night. But when the game had technically ended, the two sides kept playing, in an effort to get a feel for the new extra-innings rule in which an automatic runner starts each inning at second base.\n\nThe rule -- as it is intended to -- sparked quite a bit of offense. The Angels plated two runs on José Briceño's double against Padres right-hander Javy Guerra (though only one was earned, because Guerra’s inherited runner does not count against his line). The Padres scored a run in the bottom half of the frame and had the bases loaded when the inning was cut short because