THE GAMES: The Angels lost, 4-1, to the San Francisco Giants on Tuesday at Tempe Diablo Stadium while the other half of the team lost, 7-5, to the Colorado Rockies at Salt River Fields in Scottsdale. The Angels have lost four of their first five Cactus League games.<\/p>\n
PITCHING REPORT: In Tempe, right-hander Grayson Rodriguez was charged with one run in 1\u2154 innings in his spring debut. Rodriguez walked three, and he threw only 23 strikes among his 40 pitches. Rodriguez, who has been out with injuries since July 2024, attributed the wildness to the emotions of returning to the mound. \u201cI was pretty excited out there,\u201d he said. \u201cNext game we\u2019re going to be a little more dialed in.\u201d Rodriguez averaged 96 mph and topped out at 99 mph with his fastball. \u2026 Right-hander Kirby Yates gave up an unearned run. \u2026 Left-hander Drew Pomeranz worked around a walk in a scoreless inning. \u2026 Right-hander Jordan Romano retired the side in order.\u00a0 \u2026 Right-hander Chase Shores, who was the Angels\u2019 second-round draft pick last summer, pitched a perfect inning, hitting 99 mph with his fastball. He retired Bryce Eldridge, one of the top hitting prospects in baseball. Right-hander Nate Snead, the Angels\u2019 third-round pick last year, followed with a perfect ninth. He hit 101 mph. \u201cI thought they were great,\u201d Manager Kurt Suzuki said. \u201cIt looked like they were pretty under control. I know they were amped up, but they were under control, like they\u2019ve been there before.\u201d \u2026 In Scottsdale, right-hander Jack Kochanowicz gave up one run in 1\u2154 innings. He allowed three hits. \u2026 Right-hander Victor Mederos gave up two runs on five hits in 1\u2153 innings. \u2026 Right-hander Jos\u00e9 Fermin pitched a perfect inning, with two strikeouts.<\/p>\n
HITTING REPORT: In Tempe, the Angels did not have a baserunner in the first two innings against Giants ace Logan Webb. The Angels first hit was an Omar Martinez single in the fifth. \u2026 Oswald Peraza drove in the Angels\u2019 only run with a single in the eighth. \u2026 Mike Trout was hitless in three at-bats, with two pop-ups and a groundout. \u2026 In Scottsdale, Logan O\u2019Hoppe drove in two runs with a triple. \u2026 The Angels trailed by four runs in the eighth and then scored three runs, one on a Nelson Rada single and two on a Wade Meckler triple. \u2026 The Angels hit into double plays in each of the first three innings.<\/p>\n
DEFENSE REPORT: In Tempe, third baseman Yo\u00e1n Moncada made a sliding stop of a ground ball. He also had a ground ball tick off his glove in the fifth inning, for an error. He\u2019s been shaky in two games defensively so far. \u2026 Catcher Travis d\u2019Arnaud was wrong on two challenges in the first three innings, using up the Angels\u2019 allotment for the game. D\u2019Arnaud also made a bad throw on a stolen base attempt, allowing the runner to advance to third and leading to an unearned run. \u2026 In Scottsdale, second baseman Adam Frazier made an over-the-shoulder catch of a pop-up in shallow center field. \u2026 Mederos reached behind his back to knock down a line drive. He threw to first for the out.<\/p>\n
UP NEXT: Angels (RHP George Klassen) at Padres (RHP Michael King), Wednesday, 12:10 p.m. PT, at Peoria Sports Complex<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE GAMES: The Angels lost, 4-1, to the San Francisco Giants on Tuesday at Tempe Diablo Stadium while…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[2322,363,99],"class_list":["post-488577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}