Weaver is complete in win

Every so often Angels pitcher Jered Weaver will do or say something to remind you that, at 26, he’s still just a big kid playing a little kid’s game.

Take Thursday, for example, when Weaver appeared so flummoxed over the proper way to tailor his uniform pants, he eventually gave up and took a pair from bullpen catcher Steve Soliz’s locker.

You can’t blame Weaver for the confusion, though, since the double-knit, elastic-waistband throwback uniforms the Angels wore Thursday were replicas of ones the team used in 1980 -- two years before Weaver was born.

Once he and his high pants and red stirrups got to the mound, however, Weaver looked just fine, holding the Toronto Blue Jays to three hits while pitching his first complete game in a 6-1 Angels victory.

“Eighties night,” Manager Mike Scioscia said. “Probably the last time we had a complete game.”

Not really. They actually got one last August, it only seems like two decades ago.

Milestones aside, however, Scioscia said Weaver’s effort was still one for the ages.

“You can’t pitch a better game than he pitched tonight,” he said.

Especially considering the Blue Jays, baseball’s best-hitting team, had paddled the Angels for a season-worst 13 runs a night earlier. But Weaver handcuffed them from the start, throwing first-pitch strikes to 20 of the 30 batters he faced with Toronto’s only run coming on Aaron Hill’s leadoff home run in the fourth.

Weaver (3-1) retired 18 of the last 19 men he faced after that -- with the remnants of a crowd of 41,007 on its feet for the final out, which came on a strikeout of Alex Rios a brisk two hours and six minutes after his first pitch of the night.

And though the complete game was the first of Weaver’s career, the rest of the night was almost routine since the right-hander has given up a run or less in three of his six starts this season. And he’s allowed four or fewer hits four times.

“Just one step further,” Weaver said with a shrug. “It’s obviously showing that I can get into the ninth. And that’s good for myself and everybody else to see that.”

In fact, Weaver was so dominant the only time he needed help from the bullpen was when he was getting dressed. And the only time he got flustered was when the crowd cheered an NHL playoff score on the giant right-field scoreboard, spooking the pitcher and forcing him to back off the mound.

“We might not have seen a team as hot as they’ve been in the last 10 years in this league. These guys are scorching the ball,” Scioscia said of the Blue Jays. “And for Jered to shut them down, that’s a terrific ballgame.

“His execution was as good as it gets. And the results speak volumes for how well he pitched.”

The Angels, meanwhile, had their way with Toronto’s Robert Ray (0-1), pounding him for six runs and 10 hits in 6 1/3 innings. Two of the hits were home runs -- a two-run blast by Mike Napoli in the second and a two-out solo shot by Kendry Morales in the sixth.

But the Angels played small ball, too, with Chone Figgins -- who had three hits for the third time in four games -- twice singling, stealing second and scoring.

Afterward as Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” played on the clubhouse stereo, Weaver tossed his double knits into a laundry bin.

“Maybe in Little League,” Weaver said of the last time he’d wore a uniform like that.

Which made his plans after Thursday’s game appropriate.

“I’ll go celebrate with my parents,” he said.

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kevin.baxter@latimes.com