Abbott Finds Nothing Is Changed in Anaheim : Baseball: He’s back, but he still can’t beat the Mariners, who break the Angels’ winning streak at eight games, 10-7.

The standing ovation he received from the paid Anaheim Stadium crowd of 34,674 as he walked from the bullpen to the dugout before Thursday night’s game must have sent chills down Jim Abbott’s spine.

Unfortunately for Abbott and the Angels, the chills didn’t stop there. The Seattle Mariners pounded Abbott for 10 hits in a 10-7 victory, turning what the Angels billed as a “Class Reunion” into Fright Night at the Big A.

Abbott, in his first Anaheim start since being reacquired from the Chicago White Sox last Thursday, gave up a run in the first inning, two in the third, one in the fifth and one in the sixth as the Angel winning streak ended at eight games.

He was also responsible for the first two Mariner runners in the seventh inning. They scored when Mike Blowers blasted a grand slam to center field off reliever Mike Butcher that highlighted a five-run inning that gave Seattle a 10-2 lead.

There were other horrors: Third baseman Tony Phillips’ two errors, one that led to an unearned run in the third inning and another that prolonged Seattle’s seventh.

Center fielder Jim Edmonds slowing up when Dan Wilson’s bloop single fell in front of him and behind shortstop Gary DiSarcina in the seventh inning.

Garret Anderson, the left fielder, losing Tino Martinez’s liner in the lights for a double in the eighth.

The only masterful performance came from Seattle. Mariner right-hander Andy Benes, in his first start since being traded from the San Diego Padres last weekend, gave up only two runs on six hits in six innings and struck out nine before being relieved by Bill Risley in the seventh.

The Angels closed the gap on Edmonds’ three-run homer off Risley in the seventh inning and Jorge Fabregas’ RBI single, which made it 10-6 in the eighth, and they didn’t go down without a fight--or near-fight.

Seattle reliever Bobby Ayala hit Phillips with a pitch with runners on second and third in the eighth inning, and Phillips, after flinging the bat away, had to be restrained from charging the mound by umpire Chuck Meriwether.

Both dugouts and bullpens emptied, but no punches were thrown and order was quickly restored. Edmonds, with the bases loaded, then smashed a one-hopper to first, which Tino Martinez grabbed to end the inning.

That Abbott struggled against the Mariners in Anaheim was no surprise. He entered the game with a 0-5 lifetime record against Seattle in Anaheim and lost his major league debut here to Seattle and then-Mariner pitcher Mark Langston, 7-0, on April 8, 1989.

But it did seem out of character, considering his first Angel start, in which he pitched six shutout innings in a 4-0 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Saturday.

He was in trouble shortly after he stepped on the mound, walking Edgar Martinez and Jay Buhner with two out in the first inning, then giving up an RBI double to Blowers.

After Rich Amaral singled and Luis Sojo reached on Phillips’ error in the third inning, Edgar Martinez lined an RBI double down the left-field line and Buhner followed with a sacrifice fly to make it 3-0.

Singles by Sojo, Edgar Martinez and Blowers gave the Mariners a 4-0 lead in the fifth, and Felix Fermin’s sacrifice fly made 5-0 in the sixth.

Sojo and Edgar Martinez singled to open the seventh inning, and Abbott was replaced by Mike Butcher, at which point things really began to deteriorate.

The Angels had a great opportunity to get back into the game before Seattle’s seventh-inning outburst.

Trailing, 5-0, they loaded the bases with no outs in the sixth, but Benes struck out J.T. Snow and got Anderson on a fly to shallow left field. Spike Owen, in his first major league at-bat in almost a month, singled to left field for two runs, but Chili Davis was thrown out at third on the play.