{"id":668073,"date":"2026-04-07T09:38:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/668073\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T09:38:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:38:18","slug":"angels-6-2-braves-apr-6-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/668073\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels 6-2 Braves (Apr 6, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANAHEIM, Calif. — \u2014 Jos\u00e9 Soriano pitched eight dominant innings and the Los Angeles Angels<\/a> got home runs from Zach Neto<\/a> and Jo Adell<\/a> in a 6-2 victory over the Atlanta Braves<\/a> on Monday night.<\/p>\n

Neto launched a leadoff shot on Chris Sale<\/a>‘s first pitch, and Soriano (3-0) struck out 10 as the Angels won their third consecutive game. The right-hander allowed one run and three hits without issuing a walk, throwing 69 of his 96 pitches for strikes. <\/p>\n

Soriano gave up a solo homer to Drake Baldwin<\/a> and a single to Matt Olson<\/a> in the first, then retired 19 straight batters before Mike Yastrzemski<\/a> led off the eighth with a single.<\/p>\n

Mauricio Dub\u00f3n homered off Angels reliever Chase Silseth<\/a> in the ninth. Atlanta put two on with two outs before Jordan Romano<\/a> replaced Silseth and got Yastrzemski to fly out for his fourth save.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles played without star center fielder Mike Trout<\/a>, who exited Sunday\u2019s game against Seattle after getting hit on the left hand by a 94 mph fastball in the eighth. Trout\u2019s hand swelled so quickly he struggled to remove his batting glove, but X-rays were negative and he is listed as day-to-day.<\/p>\n

Sale (2-1) entered 8-0 with a 1.24 ERA in 11 career games against the Angels, but Neto slammed the left-hander\u2019s first pitch, a 95 mph fastball, for a homer to left field.<\/p>\n

Sale retired his next nine batters but fell apart during a three-run fourth in which the Angels drew two walks, were twice hit by pitches, had two runners forced out at the plate and hit one ball out of the infield.<\/p>\n

Logan O\u2019Hoppe walked and Yo\u00e1n Moncada was hit by a pitch, both with the bases loaded, to account for two runs. Bryce Teodosio<\/a> drove in a run with an infield single for a 4-1 lead.<\/p>\n

Jorge Soler<\/a> opened the fifth with a single, and Adell drove a first-pitch fastball 411 feet to left for a two-run homer \u2014 his first of the season \u2014 and a 6-1 advantage.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Braves RHP Reynaldo L\u00f3pez (1-0, 1.64 ERA) opposes Angels LHP Yusei Kikuchi<\/a> (0-1, 6.52) on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, Calif. — \u2014 Jos\u00e9 Soriano pitched eight dominant innings and the Los Angeles Angels got home runs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[291,5,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-668073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-angels","8":"tag-angels","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-la-angels","12":"tag-laangels","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-angels","15":"tag-losangeles","16":"tag-losangelesangels","17":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116362759511213303","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668073","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=668073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}