{"id":804699,"date":"2026-09-14T10:21:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T10:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/804699\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T10:21:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T10:21:21","slug":"angels-closing-in-on-first-ever-100-loss-season-after-6-5-loss-to-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/804699\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels closing in on first-ever 100 loss season after 6-5 loss to Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daylen Lile tripled to key a four-run rally in the eighth inning, Jacob Young and Dylan Crews added RBIs and the Washington Nationals beat the Los Angeles Angels 6-5 on Sunday to complete a three-game sweep.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles dropped to 56-93 and must win at least seven of its last 13 games to avoid its first 100-loss season.<\/p>\n<p>Washington improved to 3-61 when trailing after seven innings, sweeping the Angels for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Erik Tolman (1-1) threw a run-scoring wild pitch and Mois\u00e9s Ballesteros hit a sacrifice fly that put Los Angeles ahead 4-2 in the eighth.<\/p>\n<p>Yohandy Morales singled off Luke Murphy (0-3) starting the eighth and Lile triple and pinch-hitter Jorbit Vivas hit an RBI single that tied the score 4-4. Young hit a go-ahead double that chased Murphy and Crews hit a two-out RBI single.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Sinclair got his first professional save, allowing Christian Moore&#8217;s run-scoring groundout.<\/p>\n<p>Mois\u00e9s Ballesteros and Zach Neto hit solo homers for the Angels. Neto matched his career best of 26 homers.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Angels: LHP Reid Detmers (5-8, 3.32 ERA) starts Monday against visiting Seattle and LHP Kade Anderson (1-1, 4.29).<\/p>\n<p>Nationals: LHP Jackson Kent (1-4, 6.59) starts at home Tuesday night against Philadelphia and LHP Cristopher S\u00e1nchez (17-5, 2.79 ERA).<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daylen Lile tripled to key a four-run rally in the eighth inning, Jacob Young and Dylan Crews added&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[291,5,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,19,4,185,71],"class_list":["post-804699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-angels","tag-angels","tag-baseball","tag-la","tag-la-angels","tag-laangels","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesangels","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-washington-nationals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117268898375193870","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804699","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=804699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}