ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Jos\u00e9 Soriano pitched two-hit ball into the sixth inning of his fifth consecutive win, Yo\u00e1n Moncada and Josh Lowe homered, and the Los Angeles Angels snapped the San Diego Padres’ eight-game winning streak with an 8-0 victory Friday night.<\/p>\n
Adam Frazier had an RBI triple and Jo Adell had a two-run double for the Angels, who opened a six-game homestand by blowing out a Southern California rival.<\/p>\n
Soriano (5-0) continued his spectacular start to the season despite four walks, recording eight strikeouts and lowering his ERA to 0.28 with just one run allowed in his 32 2\/3 innings this season. The Angels’ ace increased his major league-leading strikeout total to 39, and he joined Milwaukee’s Aaron Ashby as MLB’s only pitchers with five wins.<\/p>\n
Three Los Angeles relievers wrapped up a combined three-hitter in San Diego’s first shutout loss of the season.<\/p>\n
Before the first pitch, Angel Stadium aired a tribute video and observed a moment of silence for Garret Anderson, the longtime Angels outfielder and franchise hits leader whose death at 53 was announced by the team earlier Friday. The Angels are wearing a patch bearing Anderson\u2019s initials on their uniform shoulders.<\/p>\n
Matt Waldron (0-1) yielded six runs on eight hits in his season debut for the Padres, who followed a perfect 7-0 homestand with only their second loss in two weeks. San Diego had won 11 of 12 since its 2-5 start to the season.<\/p>\n
Waldron started 26 games for the Padres in 2024, but just one last year \u2014 and then the occasional knuckleballer got a late start on the current season after undergoing a procedure on a hemorrhoid in February.<\/p>\n
After Moncada’s homer began a three-run rally in the second, Soriano escaped a bases-loaded jam in the third by getting Jackson Merrill to ground out.<\/p>\n
Nolan Schanuel chased Waldron with an RBI single in the fourth before Adell and Lowe delivered two-RBI hits off David Morgan.<\/p>\n
Soriano left after Manny Machado singled and Xander Bogaerts walked, but Chase Silseth got Gavin Sheets to fly out to the warning track in right.<\/p>\n
Germ\u00e1n M\u00e1rquez (2-1, 5.54 ERA) takes the Big A mound for the Padres on Saturday to face the Halos’ struggling Yusei Kikuchi (0-2, 7.50).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Jos\u00e9 Soriano pitched two-hit ball into the sixth inning of his fifth consecutive win,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[4392,88951,163,165,164,19753,118614,108184,47258,118358,77535,84742,51388,14506,68435,70428,3493,89235,57087,2390,5341,5337,5339,5340,74,60758,23643],"class_list":{"0":"post-273737","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-aaron-ashby","9":"tag-adam-frazier","10":"tag-anaheim","11":"tag-anaheim-headlines","12":"tag-anaheim-news","13":"tag-angel-stadium","14":"tag-angels-padres-score","15":"tag-chase-silseth","16":"tag-david-morgan","17":"tag-garret-anderson","18":"tag-gavin-sheets","19":"tag-german-marquez","20":"tag-jackson-merrill","21":"tag-jo-adell","22":"tag-jose-soriano","23":"tag-josh-lowe","24":"tag-manny-machado","25":"tag-matt-waldron","26":"tag-nolan-schanuel","27":"tag-package-100024-ap-online","28":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","29":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","30":"tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","31":"tag-product-40776-ap-california-sports-only","32":"tag-san-diego","33":"tag-xander-bogaerts","34":"tag-yusei-kikuchi"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}