Mariners complete the sweep of Anaheim with a 5-1 win

Photo by Stephen Brashear/Getty ImagesDespite some decent results, it’s been at least a month since Luis Castillo really looked like Luis Castillo. His last four pitch charts, for example, do not show the kind of clear pitch separation or living on the edges that you want to see out of your ace.

You’d think this was a lead-in to describing the first dominant outing in a while, but it’s not. La Piedra once again had the edges sanded down today, throwing too many pitches either down the chute or too far outside the zone to be tempting. Traffic in each of his first five innings, culminated with a grueling, 30-pitch, two-walk fourth inning. Unable to land his slider in the early going, he had to…