ANAHEIM — It was all going wrong for Reid Detmers. Again.

The Angels were hanging on to a two-run lead on Monday night at Fenway Park, and Detmers was standing on the mound, with the bases loaded. He had allowed a bunt single, a bloop single and a walk on a 3-and-2 pitch that was in the strike zone.

What happened next was the biggest indication of how far Detmers has come in a short time.

He got out of it, with a routine ground ball.

“Taking it one pitch at a time is huge,” Detmers said the next day. “Maybe in the past, I got a little ahead of myself and tried to do too much.”

Detmers has been through a tumultuous start to his career, from the highs of a no-hitter to the lows of a demotion to Triple-A to the transition to the bullpen.

Though it all, those who were trying to get him o

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