{"id":680172,"date":"2026-04-21T05:42:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/680172\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T05:42:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:42:22","slug":"angels-strike-out-18-times-against-blue-jays-and-lose-third-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/680172\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels strike out 18 times against Blue Jays and lose third in a row"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dylan Cease struck out 12 in five innings and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. had three hits, including a two-run homer, as the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Angels 5-2 on Monday<\/a> night.<\/p>\n

Lenyn Sosa put Toronto ahead with a sacrifice fly in the sixth, and Nathan Lukes knocked in two late insurance runs after coming off the bench.<\/p>\n

Cease (1-0) earned his first win for the Blue Jays and finished one strikeout shy of his career high despite needing 110 pitches to get 15 outs. The right-hander, who signed a $210-million, seven-year contract as a free agent in December, limited the Angels to two runs and five hits. He walked two and whiffed Jorge Soler with a 99-mph fastball on his final pitch.<\/p>\n

Toronto reliever Braydon Fisher threw a scoreless sixth, Louis Varland struck out three of his four batters and Tyler Rogers got the final two out in the eighth. Struggling closer Jeff Hoffman fanned three in a one-hit ninth for his third save.<\/p>\n

Angels left-hander Reid Detmers (1-2) gave up four runs and five hits in six innings, striking out five and walking two. The Angels<\/a> struck out a season-high 18 times and have lost three straight<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Blue Jays snapped a 2-2 tie in the sixth after Guerrero and Eloy Jim\u00e9nez singled. Guerrero went to third on Kazuma Okamoto\u2019s grounder and scored on Sosa\u2019s sacrifice fly.<\/p>\n

Lukes drove in a run with a pinch-hit single in the seventh and added an RBI groundout that made it 5-2 in the ninth.<\/p>\n

The Angels took a 1-0 lead in the first when Nolan Schanuel doubled and Soler, who had one hit and 13 strikeouts in 23 career at-bats against Cease, roped an RBI single to left field.<\/p>\n

Toronto countered with two in the third when Davis Schneider walked and Guerrero crushed a hanging changeup 430 feet to center for his second homer this season.<\/p>\n

The Angels tied it at 2 in the bottom half. Zach Neto walked, Mike Trout singled, and after a double steal, Schanuel hit a sacrifice fly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dylan Cease struck out 12 in five innings and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. had three hits, including a two-run…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2378],"tags":[291,5,377,2554,5765,76,1722,3930,6646,4,4953,7879,3215,4508,2350,84635,4833,282,70,2553],"class_list":{"0":"post-680172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-blue-jays","8":"tag-angels","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-blue-jays","11":"tag-bluejays","12":"tag-career","13":"tag-dylan-cease","14":"tag-guerrero","15":"tag-hit","16":"tag-lenyn-sosa","17":"tag-mlb","18":"tag-nolan-schanuel","19":"tag-pitch","20":"tag-run","21":"tag-sacrifice-fly","22":"tag-strikeout","23":"tag-third-save","24":"tag-time","25":"tag-toronto","26":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","27":"tag-torontobluejays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116441104152216432","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680172","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=680172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}