SEATTLE _ Sometimes in baseball, things don't look good.
Other times, they don't sound good.
And Seattle made a racket Tuesday against Jaime Barria in what became a 6-3 Angels' loss.
To the rookie's credit, the score was still tied 1-1 into the bottom of the fifth despite the Mariners rocketing balls all over Safeco Field.
In that fifth, however, something that felt inevitable proved to be just that, Mitch Haniger finally driving a shot to a place where no Angel could get it, his two-run homer launching Seattle to victory.
All the chaos from the home team trumped another night when Mike Trout was a one-man sound machine.
For the second consecutive game, Trout homered twice, driving in all the Angels runs during a series in which they haven't scored yet without homering.
Trout now leads baseball with 23 homers and recall that he entered Monday with two hits in his previous 19 at-bats, manager Mike Scioscia answering questions back then about what was wrong with Mike Trout.
The four homers in back-to-back losses feeds as a fitting snapshot into the narrative of this franchise wasting the best seasons of the game's best player.
"We not swinging the bats as a team," Scioscia said. "That puts the pitchers under a lot of pressure. We're more than Mike. One guy can't carry you."
Trout's second home run brought the Angels to within 4-3 in the seventh, Seattle reliever Ryan Cook aiding a potential comeback by walking Ian Kinsler with two outs immediately before Trout came up.
As bad as that sounds, it's even worse when considering that Kinsler this season is one for 24 against the Mariners.
Barria, who doesn't turn 22 until next month, has been one of the Angels' biggest surprises in 2018. He entered Tuesday tied for the team lead with five victories, despite being repeatedly shuttled back to triple-A Salt Lake.
Scioscia has repeatedly praised Barria's poise and his ability to keep things together when they appear to be on the verge of crumbling.
He was doing that again against the Mariners but was unable to prevent the carnage this time.
Before Tuesday, baseball's advanced metrics identified Angels pitchers as being the best in the game at missing bats.
That wasn't the case for Barria, who struck out only two in five innings while allowing eight hits, many of which nearly left vapor trails.
"I couldn't locate my pitches," he said later through an interpreter. "Especially the fastball."
After two innings, the Mariners led the Angels 1-0 and must have been leading everyone else in average exit velocity. Five of the first nine balls put in play against Barria left Seattle bats in excess of 100 mph.
Yet, he benefited from double play groundouts in the first and second, the latter ending a bases-loaded threat.
As it was, the Mariners opened that second with two singles and a double from their first four batters and still didn't score.
The next inning, they didn't score only because Trout reached to the top of the wall in center to take back what would have been at least an RBI double for Nelson Cruz.
That ball, by the way, reached 105 mph.
The run Barria allowed early came on a Haniger first-inning home run.
He then negotiated his way through three scoreless innings before Haniger struck again with two outs and after a catcher's interference call on Martin Maldonado gifted Seattle a baserunner.
Although Trout did all he could, the Mariners managed single runs of relievers Cam Bedrosian, Jose Alvarez and Oliver Drake to keep the Angels at a safe distance and keep the noise coming.
