{"id":792911,"date":"2026-08-31T06:51:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T06:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/792911\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T06:51:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T06:51:57","slug":"angels-suffer-their-seventh-consecutive-loss-in-phillies-sweep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/792911\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels suffer their seventh consecutive loss in Phillies’ sweep"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Zack Wheeler<\/a> gave up one run in six strong innings, Edmundo Sosa<\/a> hit a tiebreaking homer in the seventh and the visiting Philadelphia Phillies completed a three-game sweep with a 5-2 win<\/a> over the Angels<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Sosa, whose pinch-hit grand slam in the ninth gave Philadelphia a 5-3 win Friday night, led off the seventh with a solo shot off Angels starter Yusei Kikuchi<\/a> (0-5) to give the Phillies a 2-1 lead.<\/p>\n

The Phillies added two insurance runs in the eighth on Luis Arraez\u2019s pinch-hit sacrifice fly and Brandon Marsh\u2019s pinch-hit RBI single for a 4-1 lead. Bryce Harper added an RBI double in the ninth for a 5-1 lead.<\/p>\n

Alex McFarlane threw a scoreless seventh and Orion Kerkering gave up a run on Mike Trout\u2019s ninth-inning RBI double while recording the final four outs for his second save.<\/p>\n

The Phillies won for the 13th time in 15 games. The Angels have lost seven straight, matching their longest losing streak of the season.<\/p>\n

Wheeler (11-5) allowed four hits, struck out six and walked three to outduel Kikuchi, who gave up two runs and six hits in seven innings, striking out six and walking one.<\/p>\n

Wheeler went 0-3 with an 8.38 ERA in his previous four games and appeared headed for another shaky start when he walked Wade Meckler, hit Trout with a pitch and gave up a single to Vaughn Grissom to load the bases with no outs in the first.<\/p>\n

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But Wheeler got Mois\u00e9s Ballesteros to ground into a run-scoring double play and struck out Christian Moore on three pitches to start a 5\u2153-inning stretch during which he retired 16 of 19 batters.<\/p>\n

J.T. Realmuto hit a solo homer in the third to tie it at 1 for the Phillies.<\/p>\n

Before the game, the Angels placed rookie right-hander George Klassen (2-2, 3.67 ERA) on the 15-day injured list because of left lower-back inflammation.<\/p>\n

Up next: Angels: RHP Walbert Ure\u00f1a (8-9, 2.94) will oppose Yankees RHP Elmer Rodriguez (0-2, 4.70) Monday night in Anaheim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zack Wheeler gave up one run in six strong innings, Edmundo Sosa hit a tiebreaking homer in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[7663,291,5,6924,14,3652,1165,446,3223,4949,774,56,3224,3222,603,4,5207,16039,40,7879,3215,97253,5696,117],"class_list":["post-792911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-angels","tag-angel","tag-angels","tag-baseball","tag-edmundo-sosa","tag-game","tag-homer","tag-la","tag-la-angels","tag-laangels","tag-lead","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesangels","tag-mike-trout","tag-mlb","tag-out","tag-phillie","tag-phillies","tag-pitch","tag-run","tag-seventh-consecutive-loss","tag-sweep","tag-zack-wheeler"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117188804608743108","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792911","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=792911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}