Beltre-powered Mariners deflate Angels

The Angels are excited about their hockey-playing neighbors across the freeway, but when the Ducks’ victory over Ottawa produces the biggest roar of the night from a crowd of 42,352 in Angel Stadium, it doesn’t reflect well on the local baseball team.

Adrian Beltre provided a sight seldom seen around these parts -- a third baseman who can hit for power -- roping two doubles and two home runs to lead the Seattle Mariners to a 12-5 blowout Monday that obliterated those good vibes the Angels accrued during their three-game sweep at Yankee Stadium.

Beltre doubled in his first two at-bats and broke a 4-4 tie in the sixth inning with a two-out, two-run home run against Bartolo Colon, who was roughed up for nine runs -- seven earned -- and 11 hits in 6 1/3 innings, his second consecutive poor start.

Beltre, who tied a franchise record with four extra-base hits, then followed Richie Sexson’s three-run homer in the seventh with a solo shot against reliever Hector Carrasco to cap a six-run outburst for the Mariners, who have won six of seven games, amassed 50 runs in the last five games and moved to within 3 1/2 games of the Angels in the American League West.

“The ball wasn’t coming out of Bart’s hand the way we know it can, and he left some balls up in the zone,” Manager Mike Scioscia said. “Bart was not at his best tonight, and his last start was not what we hoped for. It could be a little dead arm. We’re going to take a look at it.”

It won’t take long to pinpoint the problem. Colon said that the triceps tightness that knocked him out in the eighth inning of a May 6 game against the White Sox flared up again Monday and bothered him all game.

“It’s not pain, but it doesn’t allow me to get as loose as I want to get,” Colon said through an interpreter. “I don’t want it to affect the way I pitch. I don’t want it to carry through the rest of the season.”

Colon amazed the Angels with his rapid recovery from a rotator-cuff tear, returning two months ahead of schedule and going 5-0 with a 3.69 earned run average in his first six starts. But the right-hander struggled last Wednesday in Detroit, giving up six runs and 10 hits in 4 1/3 innings of an 8-7 loss, and he did not look sharp Monday night.

Jose Guillen drove a home run to center in the first, and Jose Lopez’s two-run double capped a three-run second. After Beltre’s sixth-inning homer, the Mariners loaded the bases with none out against Colon in the seventh.

It didn’t help that third baseman Chone Figgins failed to get to the bag in time to force the lead runner on Jose Vidro’s bunt, and first baseman Casey Kotchman had his string of 115 consecutive games without an error broken when he threw wide of second on a fielder’s choice.

“Bart wasn’t crisp, but he battled,” Scioscia said. “We probably gave them five or six extra outs, a couple in that one inning. You do that against a hot offensive club, you’re going to pay the price.”

Colon isn’t Scioscia’s only concern. Figgins was hitless in three at-bats and bounced into two double plays, his average falling to .133.

Though he made a spectacular diving stop of Kenji Johjima’s third-inning grounder and threw to first for the out, Figgins looked tentative on Sexson’s sixth-inning chopper, which nicked off his glove, and couldn’t handle Lopez’s seventh-inning grounder to his right. Both were scored hits.

“He just can’t get anything going,” Scioscia said, “and that’s another thing we’re going to look at.”

One possibility is to move Erick Aybar to third.

“Our goal is to get Figgy productive,” Scioscia said. “He’s working hard; he’s just having problems taking a consistent offensive approach to the field, and defensively, he has to relax and make plays.”

mike.digiovanna@latimes.com