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<\/p>\nCHICAGO \u2014 Jos\u00e9 Soriano pitched two-hit ball over six scoreless innings for the second time in two starts, and the Los Angeles Angels beat the Chicago Cubs 2-0 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Logan O\u2019Hoppe hit a two-run single with two outs in the sixth against reliever Phil Maton (0-1), and that was all Soriano (2-0) needed on a cold and windy night at Wrigley Field.<\/p>\n
The 27-year-old right-hander threw 90 pitches, striking out four and walking two. He was coming off a terrific performance in the Angels\u2019 3-0 win at Houston on opening day.<\/p>\n
Chase Silseth pitched around a single by Nico Hoerner and walk to Mois\u00e9s Ballesteros in the seventh. Drew Pomeranz worked 1 1\/3 innings against his former team, and Jordan Romano got two outs for his second save.<\/p>\n
Romano walked Dansby Swanson before striking out pinch-hitter Michael Conforto to end it as the Angels snapped a three-game skid.<\/p>\n
Cubs starter Jameson Taillon gave up two hits over 4 2\/3 innings in his season debut. The veteran right-hander exited after intentionally walking Mike Trout to load the bases.<\/p>\n
Hoby Milner retired Nolan Schanuel on a grounder, ending that threat. But after wasting a big opportunity in the fifth, the Angels broke through in the sixth.<\/p>\n
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Chicago Cubs starter Jameson Taillon delivers a pitch during the first inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels in Chicago, Tuesday, March 31, 2026. Credit: AP\/Paul Beaty<\/p>\n
They had runners on second and third with two outs when O\u2019Hoppe hit a one-hopper off third baseman Alex Bregman\u2019s glove for a two-run single.<\/p>\n
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Left-handers Matthew Boyd (0-1) and Yusei Kikuchi (0-0) start the finale of the three-game series. Boyd, an All-Star last season, got tagged for six runs over 3 2\/3 innings in Chicago’s season-opening loss to Washington. Kikuchi allowed two runs over 4 1\/3 innings Friday in the Angels’ win at Houston. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO \u2014 Jos\u00e9 Soriano pitched two-hit ball over six scoreless innings for the second time in two starts,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[5,138,24,4245,161,56,4,2524],"class_list":{"0":"post-656289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-cubs","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-cubs","11":"tag-chicagocubs","12":"tag-cubs","13":"tag-los-angeles-angels","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-wires-bot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116328775019008964","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}