who died at 53 on Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cWe\u2019re gonna go out there and wear his patch and continue to go and do what we do,\u201d Adell said before the game of the team\u2019s \u2018GA\u2019 logo on the shoulder of each jersey. \u201cPlay the game that we love and that we know that he loved and his family embraced. Just to keep him in our thoughts and prayers.\u201d<\/p>\n
The emotional day started with a pregame tribute to Anderson on the videoboard, as players from both teams stood along opposing foul lines. A moment of silence from the capacity crowd followed.<\/p>\n
After completing a seven-game road trip in New York on Thursday, followed by the flight home, when most members of the traveling party learned of Anderson\u2019s death, the Angels had plenty left for one of baseball\u2019s hottest teams.<\/p>\n
A promising split during a four-game series against the Yankees served as its own momentum-builder. Better performances out of the bullpen could have led to a sweep instead of a split.<\/p>\n
The Angels (11-10) averaged eight runs per game in the series in the Bronx and continued that trend in the opener of a six-game homestand that also will include a visit from the reigning American League champion Toronto Blue Jays.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe bats have been incredible, grinding the at-bats out and even the outs we make, you\u2019re making the pitcher throw six pitches, eight pitches,\u201d Manager Kurt Suzuki said. \u201cBut I think it\u2019s just consistency. Nobody\u2019s trying to do too much. Obviously there are homers, but we\u2019re keeping the line moving.\u201d<\/p>\n
In addition to Moncada\u2019s home run in the second inning, his third of the season and second in three games, Adam Frazier had an RBI double and Zach Neto added a run-scoring single in the frame.<\/p>\n
The Angels put up three more runs in the fourth, with the first coming on a Nolan Schanuel RBI single that knocked Padres right-hander Matt Waldron from his season debut. Adell\u2019s two-run double came on the sixth pitch from right-hander David Morgan.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it was a little bit of everything,\u201d Adell said when asked about his expression of emotion after reaching second base. \u201cToday we went through something pretty tough as an organization with GA. Coming out of the (videoboard memorial) before the game, everybody was fired up to really pay tribute.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Angels were far from finished, getting a two-run home run from Josh Lowe in the fifth, his third of the season. Nolan Schanuel had three hits after going 4 for 25 on the seven-game trip.<\/p>\n
The bats retained plenty of heat while in a cargo hold during the flight from the East Coast.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe could easily just put our heads down and get beat (at New York), but we got a good, tight group in there,\u201d said center fielder Mike Trout, who hit five home runs in the series against the Yankees. \u201c\u2026 Everybody\u2019s got a purpose and we\u2019re having team at-bats. It\u2019s fun to be in the lineup and to see that one through nine (are contributing).<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s not one guy that\u2019s taking their own at-bats, we\u2019re taking team at-bats. That\u2019s what winning ball clubs do.\u201d<\/p>\n
As good as the offense has been of late, Soriano has been even better. While improving to 5-0, and becoming the first American League pitcher with five wins, Soriano also lowered his ERA to a tidy 0.28.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think mentally I\u2019m stronger and physically too, I feel stronger,\u201d Soriano said when asked to compare himself with how he has felt the past two seasons as a starter. \u201cI\u2019m learning a lot from the past. I\u2019m taking the good things and trying to use them right now. I think that\u2019s part of the good results I\u2019m having now.\u201d<\/p>\n
The lone run Soriano allowed this season came April 6 against the Atlanta Braves, when he went a season-best eight innings and had 10 strikeouts. Friday\u2019s outing was his shortest of the season and ended after 99 pitches.<\/p>\n
Soriano matched a season high with four walks and had eight strikeouts.<\/p>\n
The bullpen even found some redemption after two late stumbles in New York. Chase Silseth got Soriano out of a sixth-inning jam by getting Gavin Sheets to fly out to the wall in right.<\/p>\n
Shaun Anderson followed with two scoreless innings, without allowing a hit, and Jordan Romano pitched a scoreless ninth after two blown save opportunities against the Yankees. The Angels handed the Padres (13-7) their first shutout of the season.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were a couple of tough ones in New York for sure and I didn\u2019t feel like myself out there,\u201d Romano said. \u201cGetting in there tonight, making pitches, feeling good, is definitely big.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM \u2014 Jo Adell promised the Angels would perform with the same focused approach Garret Anderson used in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[291,5,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,4,185,558],"class_list":{"0":"post-678158","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","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116424176975486801","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678158","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=678158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}