ANAHEIM, Calif; — After being one of the hottest teams in baseball over the last week, the Angels offense finally cooled off after striking out 15 times and having 3 hits.
The Angels couldn’t seem to get anything going on the basepaths Sunday afternoon against Marlins pitcher Edward Cabrera who had a season high of 10 strikeouts.
Prior to today’s game, the Angels had a total of 46 runs, 69 hits and 15 home runs, 20 walks, and 65 strikeouts in their last seven.
Today, they looked like a shell of their last performances in their 3-0 loss to Miami.
The offense opened today’s game with a leadoff single by Tim Anderson in the first inning and a ground rule double in the second by Travis d’Arnaud in the second. After that, they struck six times in the next three innings.
Cabrera had a season high of 10 strikeouts and a low in hits (3) today against the Angels.
Cabrera mixed his pitch types all afternoon, getting Angels batters to strikeout from his fastball, curveball, slider, sinker, and changeup all afternoon long. His curveball struck out a total of three batters today.
“I mean he was really good today,” Angels manager Ron Washington said. “He was able to spot his fastball and he had a good breaking ball, quick. And it was hard to really recognize it.”
The Angels had four different batters strikeout twice in today’s game and were 0-3 with runners in scoring position. Jorge Soler led the team with a total of three strikeouts, including the final out of the game when he struck out in the ninth inning to end the afternoon.
Their best opportunity to score came in the sixth inning today after Nolan Schanuel and Yoán Moncada drew back-to-back walks with two outs. With the two on first and second, the Angels’ hottest hitter over the past week, Taylor Ward, came up to the plate and was ready to do damage against Miami.
Anthony Bender was in to replace Cabrera in the sixth and was facing Ward in at bat. On the third pitch of the at-bat, Ward was about to hit the first RBI of the day for the Angels, but the ball landed foul. Two pitches later, the Bender struck him out on a sweeper to give the Angels their 11th strikeout of the game.
“I was hoping I had it,” Ward said. “That would have been nice for sure. Two runs. But you know it’s just baseball.”
Coming into today’s game, Ward was riding the high of setting a franchise record Saturday night for consecutive games with an extra base hit. Today, his streak came to an end, and he will be looking to start a new one tomorrow.
“I’m just grateful for the opportunity to have. Hopefully start a new one tomorrow.”
Jordan Carroll – The Sporting Tribune
Los Angeles Angels outfielder Taylor Ward (3) hits the balll during the game against the Miami Marlins on Sunday, May 25, 2025, at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, CA.
Angels pitcher Kyle Hendricks was on the mound for the team today, looking to pick up his 100th career victory, and former Angels pitcher Clyde Wright, who was Hendricks’ pitching coach in high school at Capistrano Valley in San Juan Capistrano.
Jordan Carroll – The Sporting Tribune
Los Angeles Angels pitcher, Kyle Hendricks pitches during the game against the Miami Marlins on Sunday, May 25, 2025, at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, CA.
Hendricks did enough to give the Angels a chance to help him achieve the milestone after giving up three runs in the third, fourth, and fifth innings. Hendricks gave up just seven hits with zero balls on 87 pitches in six innings of work.
“A lot of good stuff honestly. Just keeps getting better and better,” Hendricks said. “I feel like Trav and I are really getting on the same page now. Finding some consistencies. So that’s kind of the worst outcome I could get right there is three runs. I felt like I really only gave up two you know? They put a couple of good swings on some good pitches, but overall felt much more like myself, so I got to fall on that for sure.”
Game Notes
Before today’s game, the Angels optioned right-handed pitcher Caden Dana back to Triple-A Salt Lake. Jake Eder was called up in his place.
Angels manager Ron Washington said he anticipates Mike Trout to run the bases for the first time in this week’s series against the New York Yankees. If he does it multiple times without any issues, he will be activated from the injured list.