{"id":657501,"date":"2026-04-01T22:04:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T22:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/657501\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T22:04:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T22:04:27","slug":"five-run-third-inning-sinks-angels-in-series-finale-loss-to-cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/657501\/","title":{"rendered":"Five-run third inning sinks Angels in series finale loss to Cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CHICAGO\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Matthew Boyd struck out 10 while pitching into the sixth inning, and the Chicago Cubs beat the Angels<\/a> 6-2 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Nico Hoerner had three hits for Chicago on a chilly and windy afternoon at Wrigley Field. Matt Shaw had two hits and two RBIs, and Alex Bregman reached three times in the rubber game of the three-game series.<\/p>\n

Boyd (1-1) yielded two runs, one earned, and two hits over 5 2\/3 innings in his second start of the season. The left-hander was tagged for six runs in 3 2\/3 innings in a 10-4 loss<\/a> to Washington on opening day.<\/p>\n

Zach Neto<\/a> had two of the Angels\u2019 four hits. Yusei Kikuchi (0-1) was charged with five runs and six hits in 5 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n

Chicago grabbed control with five runs in the third inning. Miguel Amaya walked and scored from first on Hoerner\u2019s double into the gap in left-center. Bregman singled in Hoerner, and Dansby Swanson drove in Ian Happ with a sacrifice fly. Shaw and Pete Crow-Armstrong contributed two-out RBI singles.<\/p>\n

It looked as if first-year Angels manager Kurt Suzuki<\/a> wanted a replay review of the play at the plate when Amaya scored but was denied because he took too long to decide on the challenge.<\/p>\n

The Angels chased Boyd while scoring two runs in the sixth. Jo Adell singled in Neto, and Mike Trout<\/a> scampered home on an error on Bregman at third.<\/p>\n

The Cubs tacked on an unearned run in the seventh. Trout dropped Carson Kelly\u2019s leadoff fly ball to center for an error, and Kelly scored on Shaw\u2019s one-out single.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Angels: Following an off day, LHP Reid Detmers (0-0, 5.79 ERA) starts for the Angels in their home opener on Friday night. RHP Bryan Woo (0-0, 3.00 ERA) takes the mound for Seattle.<\/p>\n

Cubs: RHP Cade Horton (1-0, 2.84 ERA) starts the opener of a weekend series at Cleveland on Friday. LHP Joey Cantillo (0-0, 4.91 ERA) gets the ball for the Guardians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Matthew Boyd struck out 10 while pitching into the sixth inning, and the Chicago Cubs beat the Angels…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[72,291,5,34,138,24,4245,161,2600,8655,3930,3654,716,2000,603,4,33,3215,83983,2052],"class_list":["post-657501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-cubs","tag-alex-bregman","tag-angels","tag-baseball","tag-carson-kelly","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-chicagocubs","tag-cubs","tag-era","tag-friday-night","tag-hit","tag-innings","tag-matt-shaw","tag-matthew-boyd","tag-mike-trout","tag-mlb","tag-nico-hoerner","tag-run","tag-series-finale-loss","tag-zach-neto"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116331719220871006","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657501","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=657501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}