Tigers batter Weaver and beat Angels, 9-5

Somebody should do a room check at the Seattle Mariners’ hotel in Texas. The team that departed Anaheim on Sunday after being swept in a three-game series by the Angels appears to have left Jeff Weaver behind.

One day after the elder Weaver threw three mediocre innings for the Mariners in Angel Stadium, Jered Weaver followed in his brother’s footsteps a little too closely, delivering the kind of shoddy effort that got Jeff Weaver, who went 3-10 with a 6.29 earned-run average for the Angels in 2006, designated for assignment last June 30.

Whether it was a fastball with little life, a flat slider or just plain bad Weaver karma, Jered was rocked for seven runs -- five earned -- and seven hits in 1 2/3 innings of the Angels’ 9-5 loss to the Detroit Tigers on Monday night, Weaver’s worst start in his brief 21-game big league career.

“That was by far the worst game I’ve ever had,” Weaver said. “It was bound to happen one of these outings. I have to give it up to their hitters for showing great discipline at the plate.”

Weaver could have lost so much more, but he was actually lucky. A blistering Gary Sheffield liner whizzed past his head in the second inning at 108 mph, according to the stadium speed gun.

“I know it was 108 -- I could hear it,” Weaver said. “I actually had a dream [Sunday] night about Sheffield hitting me with a line drive. It was kind of weird.”

Almost as odd was the manner in which the Tigers picked Weaver apart. Though Curtis Granderson led off the game with a home run to right-center, Weaver appeared to right himself by getting Placido Polanco to fly out and Sheffield to ground out.

Then the pitches and hits started to mount. Magglio Ordonez walked, and Carlos Guillen singled to center. Ivan Rodriguez singled for a 2-0 lead, and Sean Casey worked the count full before lining to center for the final out on Weaver’s 36th pitch of the inning.

Weaver (0-2) struck out Craig Monroe and Brandon Inge to start the second, but Granderson singled, Polanco walked and Sheffield, who entered with a .119 average, lined his RBI single to center for a 3-0 lead.

Ordonez, who has a career .313 average with 16 homers, 14 doubles, 43 RBIs and 44 runs against the Angels, knocked in a run with an infield single, and Guillen’s RBI double on the 34th pitch of the inning knocked Weaver out of the game.

“You throw 70 pitches and get five outs,” Scioscia said. “It was time.”

Third baseman Robb Quinlan’s throwing error allowed the Tigers to score two more runs for a 7-0 lead, and the Angels never really recovered.

Weaver, slowed this spring by shoulder tightness, felt fine physically, “but I just didn’t have any off-speed pitches, I couldn’t throw any for strikes,” he said. “I got ahead early and tried to be too fine late, and they weren’t biting on my pitches.”

The 1 2/3 -inning effort was four innings shorter than Weaver’s previous career low, when he went 5 2/3 innings, giving up five earned runs and nine hits, in a 6-4 loss to Seattle last Aug. 29.

Only twice in 20 previous starts had Weaver given up five earned runs, and it took him 7 2/3 innings to do it last time, in a 6-5 win over Texas last Sept. 27.

The Angels rallied with two runs in the second (RBI singles by Maicer Izturis and Gary Matthews Jr.) and one in the third (Shea Hillenbrand’s RBI single), and after Detroit scored again in the fourth, the Angels loaded the bases with two outs in the fifth.

Tigers starter Mike Maroth was one out away from qualifying for a victory, but Manager Jim Leyland didn’t hesitate in pulling the struggling left-hander in favor of right-hander Jason Grilli, who got Mike Napoli to ground into an inning-ending fielder’s choice, with Inge making a nice stop at third to preserve Detroit’s 8-3 lead.

mike.digiovanna@latimes.com