{"id":774437,"date":"2026-08-09T21:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T21:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/774437\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T21:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T21:12:13","slug":"pitching-struggles-doom-angels-in-blowout-loss-to-marlins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/774437\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitching struggles doom Angels in blowout loss to Marlins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>MIAMI\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Kyle Stowers tripled, singled and drove in two runs before exiting because of left hamstring discomfort in the fifth inning, and the Miami Marlins beat the Angels <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/gameday\/angels-vs-marlins\/2026\/08\/09\/823835\/final\/box\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">12-3<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Griffin Conine homered twice and Javier Sanoja had two singles and three RBIs for the Marlins. Miami\u2019s Otto L\u00f3pez had two infield singles, giving him 46 multi-hit games.<\/p>\n<p>Stowers grimaced as he rounded first after his two-run single capped a six-run fifth that put the Marlins ahead 10-2, He was immediately replaced by pinch runner Leo Jimenez.<\/p>\n<p>Sanoja hit a two-run single and Conine added a two-run drive against Angels reliever Shaun Anderson before Stowers\u2019 single.<\/p>\n<p>Conine went deep again with a shot over the wall in right against position player Tyler Heineman to lead off the eighth.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Petersen (2-2) threw a scoreless fifth for the win. Starter Ryan Gusto was pulled after four innings of two-run ball and 60 pitches. Gusto gave up three hits and struck out four.<\/p>\n<p>The Marlins (60-59) erased a 1-0 deficit with a three-run first against Angels starter Grayson Rodriguez (3-5).<\/p>\n<p>Stowers tripled and scored on a wild pitch. An errant throw to third by Angels first baseman Nolan Schanuel attempting to get Xavier Edwards out allowed him to score for a 2-1 lead. Owen Caissie capped the scoring with an RBI single.<\/p>\n<p>The Angels (45-73) narrowed the gap on Jos\u00e9 Siri\u2019s solo blast in the third. Siri hit a fastball from Gusto over the wall in center for his seventh homer.<\/p>\n<p>Sanoja\u2019s RBI single in the fourth made it 4-2.<\/p>\n<p>Zach Neto put the Angels on the board with a run-scoring double in the first.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez completed four innings. The right-hander gave up four runs and four hits. He walked four and struck out eight.<\/p>\n<p>Up next for the Angels: LHP Reid Detmers (3-8, 4.12 ERA) will start the opener of a four-game home series against Texas on Monday. The Rangers have not announced a starter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Kyle Stowers tripled, singled and drove in two runs before exiting because of left hamstring discomfort in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[291,5,95481,5414,547,19882,3654,4289,3921,1388,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,1816,4,7879,6476,10718,1311,30889,12472],"class_list":["post-774437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-angels","tag-angels","tag-baseball","tag-doom-angels","tag-fastball","tag-griffin-conine","tag-gusto","tag-innings","tag-javier-sanoja","tag-jose-siri","tag-kyle-stowers","tag-la","tag-la-angels","tag-laangels","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesangels","tag-marlins","tag-mlb","tag-pitch","tag-rbi","tag-single","tag-third","tag-two-run","tag-wall"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117067615009051058","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774437","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=774437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}