Jose Soriano pitched two-hit ball into the sixth inning of his fifth consecutive win, Yoan Moncada and Josh Lowe homered, and the Los Angeles Angels snapped the San Diego Padres’ eight-game winning streak with an 8-0 victory Friday night.<\/p>\n
Adam Frazier had an RBI triple and Jo Adell had a two-run double for the Angels, who opened a six-game home stand by blowing out a Southern California rival.<\/p>\n
Soriano (5-0) continued his spectacular start to the season despite four walks, recording eight strikeouts and lowering his ERA to 0.28 with just one run allowed in his 32 2\/3 innings this season. The Angels’ ace increased his major league-leading strikeout total to 39, and he joined the Milwaukee Brewers’ Aaron Ashby as MLB’s only pitchers with five wins.<\/p>\n
Three Los Angeles relievers wrapped up a combined three-hitter in San Diego’s first shutout loss of the season.<\/p>\n
Before the first pitch, Angel Stadium aired a tribute video and observed a moment of silence for Garret Anderson, the longtime Angels outfielder and franchise hits leader whose death at 53 was announced by the team earlier Friday. The Angels are wearing a patch bearing Anderson\u2019s initials on their uniform shoulders.<\/p>\n
Matt Waldron (0-1) yielded six runs on eight hits in his season debut for the Padres, who followed a perfect 7-0 home stand with only their second loss in two weeks. San Diego had won 11 of 12 since its 2-5 start to the season.<\/p>\n
Waldron started 26 games for the Padres in 2024, but just one last year \u2014 and then the occasional knuckleballer got a late start in the current season after undergoing a procedure on a hemorrhoid in February.<\/p>\n
After Moncada’s homer began a three-run rally in the second, Soriano escaped a bases-loaded jam in the third by getting Jackson Merrill to ground out.<\/p>\n
Nolan Schanuel chased Waldron with an RBI single in the fourth before Adell and Lowe delivered two-RBI hits off David Morgan.<\/p>\n
Soriano left after Manny Machado singled and Xander Bogaerts walked, but Chase Silseth got Gavin Sheets to fly out to the warning track in right.<\/p>\n
Up next, Germ\u00e1n M\u00e1rquez (2-1, 5.54 ERA) takes the Big A mound for the Padres on Saturday to face the Halos’ struggling Yusei Kikuchi (0-2, 7.50).<\/p>\n
Reporting by The Associated Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jose Soriano pitched two-hit ball into the sixth inning of his fifth consecutive win, Yoan Moncada and Josh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[8007,291,5,76469,2179,3508,1397,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,19,4,85936,18,3511],"class_list":{"0":"post-678553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-angels","8":"tag-adam-frazier","9":"tag-angels","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-event_recap","12":"tag-jo-adell","13":"tag-jose-soriano","14":"tag-josh-lowe","15":"tag-la","16":"tag-la-angels","17":"tag-laangels","18":"tag-los-angeles","19":"tag-los-angeles-angels","20":"tag-losangeles","21":"tag-losangelesangels","22":"tag-major-league-baseball","23":"tag-mlb","24":"tag-mlb-san-diego-padres-vs-los-angeles-angels-04-18-2026","25":"tag-san-diego-padres","26":"tag-yoan-moncada"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116427149655134552","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678553","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=678553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}