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SEATTLE -- Mike Trout had a disappointing 25th birthday to cap yet another rough series for the Los Angeles Angels.Trout struck out four times against starter James Paxton, and the Seattle Mariners beat the Angels 3-1 on Sunday to complete a three-game sweep.I cant pick his stuff up. I dont know. It was just one of those days, said Trout, who struck out four times for the fourth time in his career, the last time also against Paxton on Sept. 7, 2014. Just not picking it up, not getting my foot down.Paxton was forced from the game in the ninth inning after taking Andrelton Simmons line drive off his left arm. X-rays were negative, and the left-hander has just a contusion on his left elbow. Hes listed as day-to-day.Paxton (4-5), who was on the verge of his first career complete game, struck out six with one walk in a career-high 8 1/3 innings.Seattle erased a 1-0 deficit with three runs in the fourth inning off Matt Shoemaker (6-12), although the Angels prevented a bigger inning with two stellar defensive plays.Seth Smith, Kyle Seager and Nelson Cruz opened with consecutive singles for the first run. After Adam Lind was hit by a pitch to load the bases, Trout prevented a grand slam with a leaping catch above the center-field wall on Leonys Martins sacrifice fly that made it 2-1.Mike Zunino then bounced to shortstop Simmons, who threw out Cruz at home. Mike Freeman, called up earlier in the day from Triple-A Tacoma, followed with an RBI single.Paxton had good stuff and pitched a strong game. Shoe had his back up against the wall, Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. In the fourth inning we made some nice defensive plays to keep ourselves in, but those guys kept pressuring us and got the three runs.Shoemaker allowed three runs on seven hits in seven innings, striking out three and hitting three batters.You could name it all, maybe a little bit of bad luck, some mislocated pitches that got hit fairly well, Shoemaker said. It was just kind of a mixture of things.The Angels pushed across an unearned run in the third after shortstop Sean OMalley booted Shane Robinsons one-out chopper. Robinson came around on singles by Kole Calhoun and Albert Pujols.In the ninth, Simmons reached on an infield single on the liner off Paxton. Tom Wilhelmsen came on and allowed a two-out walk to pinch-hitter Ji-Man Choi, but got Johnny Giavotella on a game-ending ground out to short.The sweep was the first of the Angels by Seattle since Sept. 26-28, 2014. Trout had two homers, a triple and seven RBI in the series, but also struck out seven times in 11 at-bats.Against Paxton, Trout is 2 for 20 with 10 strikeouts.CANOS STREAK ENDSSeattle 2B Robinson Cano was given the day off, ending his consecutive games started streak at 167, the longest in the majors.CHEERING FOR ICHIRPlayers were still on the field after the game when the scoreboard at Safeco Field showed Ichiro Suzukis 3,000th hit in major league baseball for the Miami Marlins at Colorado, drawing applause from Mariners players and fans. Suzuki, who made his major league debut in 2001 with Seattle at the age of 27 after an illustrious career in Japan, had a team-high 2,533 hits in his 11 1/2 seasons with the Mariners. 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Mathematicians must hate it when the rest of us non-mathematicians think we are being clever in saying things like the whole is greater - or less - than the sum of its parts. How can the total ever be less than the sum of the numbers adding up to it? This is not philosophy; this is maths. Two plus two has to be four. It can be nothing else, not more or less.So it is with the greatest respect to all mathematicians that this line is wheeled out again, this time in application to this Pakistan pace attack - of which the whole currently feels distinctly less than what it should be given the sum of its individual parts.No doubt skeptics might join mathematicians in arguing that actually, the attack equals exactly the sum of its constituents; that this, the first day of Brisbane and Australia near enough 300 for just three, is how good any combination of Mohammad Amir, Rahat Ali, Wahab Riaz, Sohail Khan and Imran Khan can ever be.But how? At least in theory it looks like an excess of riches unlike any Pakistan have been able to call upon in recent times. Remember, after all, those fun days about a decade ago when the prospect of some combination of Mohammad Asif, Shoaib Akhtar, Umar Gul, Rana Naved-ul-Hasan, Shahid Nazir, Shabbir Ahmed and (we might as well throw him in) Mohammad Sami generated enough drool to turn a crater into an ocean? And yet, somehow, no potent attack from that could ever really turn out together, and certainly not for long enough for it to matter.Some just werent as good as was thought; there were drugs and there were injuries; there were dodgy actions and bad haircuts; there were fights and bans; and there was Asif, a force not ever knowingly tamed by anyone, batsmen, friends, lovers or administrators.So it must be a blessing right now that they can at least pick from the five pace options they have every Test they play. And it should be a blessing that together the quintet cover so many bases. A bit of swing in the air? No worries, Sohail will touch you up a little. Need a bit of nasty? Please, Wahab. Something cute and reliable, maybe for those UAE pitches? Thanks Rahat. Maybe a back-of-a-length, into-the-wind toiler when everyone else pulls a sickie? Ladies and gentlemen - the Imran Khan who isnt that one. And the cherry on top of this, the glue that holds them together, that once-in-a-generation star? Welcome back Amir.And yet, on days like today, and on a number of them through the tours of England and New Zealand, these options have either not seemed enough, or that there are more bases to cover than Pakistan thought. In part it is because a four-man attack with negligible part-time options is always going to be thin in modern cricket. Over in India, two sides are currently playing what seems to be the future, with five, six, even seven options in any one innings.With just four, the whole operation is fragile. In England that was at its most acute with Sohail around, lookinng as if he had just one spell in which to make it count in an entire Test.dddddddddddd. When Amir went off briefly in Brisbane, the Test may as well have been over, Pakistan already floored. The big outfields, the heat, the crowds and often the surfaces - Australia is ruthless in stretching thin attacks to the point of tearing them up. Without an allrounder they can do little about that, except fret and complain that they havent spent the last few years trying to develop one.They have not always known which permutation of the five suits their purposes, or the surface, best. Rotation is a reality and Pakistan have played on a variety of pitches this year, but seven changes to their pace bowling combination in ten Tests - no matter the divergence in conditions - suggests they are not sure what works. The three in Brisbane are the three who played the first Test at Lords this summer and then, as now, it isnt obvious that it is the right three. Rahat, in particular, has struggled in the opening innings of the three series he has played away from home this year - and with limited resources, one misfiring bowler is fatal. Even accounting for the left-handers in Australias line-up, might Imran not have been a sturdier option?In one sense, Pakistan are still adjusting to the return of Amir. They had made peace with what resources they had in his absence. Junaid Khan had skipped out of his shadow. Imran emerged. Mohammad Irfan briefly looked like he could have a Test career. Wahab found his calling. Instead, Amir waltzed back into the side once his ban ended and the men who had been holding fort either faded away, like Junaid, or began missing out, like Imran, Wahab and Rahat, who have all sat out Tests because Amir has already assumed the status of an automatic selection.Is it time then, even as early as the first skirmishes of this series, for some reassessment? That Wahab is a deliverer of good-to-great spells rather than being a good-to-great bowler and that Rahat is a slow learner? And as for Amir, maybe the swing-friendly summer of 2010 and what followed swelled in our heads the memories of how good he really was.Maybe the maths is right, that this attack is only as good as its numbers, which arent great. After all, at various points in England and New Zealand, they have collectively squandered helpful conditions.Or, as they did today, they have bowled well enough intermittently but bowled boundary balls often enough to create no pressure, deflecting it instead on Yasir Shah and earning the mistrust of their captain. The depth of that was damning enough in Misbah-ul-Haq not using two fast bowlers in tandem from the 11th over of the innings until the second new ball, as if he was trying to hide one on the first day of a series in a country where there is no place to hide. ' ' '