Field Level Media
18 Apr 2026, 10:49 GMT+10
(Photo credit: William Liang-Imagn Images)
Yoan Moncada and Josh Lowe each homered and Jose Soriano allowed two hits over 5 2/3 innings for his fifth win as the Los Angeles Angels, only hours after announcing the death of franchise icon Garret Anderson, snapped San Diego's eight-game winning streak with an 8-0 victory on Friday night in Anaheim, Calif.
Soriano (5-0) walked four and struck out eight, lowering major league-leading ERA to 0.28. He has allowed just one run -- a homer by Atlanta catcher Drake Baldwin -- and 11 hits over 32 2/3 innings while striking out 39.
Nolan Schanuel went 3-for-5 with an RBI and a run scored for Los Angeles, which finished with 13 hits. Adam Frazier doubled and had two hits and two runs scored, Jo Adell doubled and drove in two runs and Zach Neto and Oswald Peraza also had two hits for the Angels, who won for the third time in their last four games.
Matt Waldron (0-1) suffered the loss, allowing six runs on eight hits over 3 2/3 innings. He walked one and struck out four.
Los Angeles jumped out to a 3-0 lead in in the second inning. Moncada led off with third home run, a 388-foot drive to right-center. Two outs later, Logan O'Hoppe was hit by a pitch and then scored on a double by Frazier. Neto followed with a single to drive in Frazier.
San Diego loaded the bases with two outs in the third on a single by Ty France and walks by Luis Campusano and Fernando Tatis Jr. But Soriano got out of the jam by getting Jackson Merrill to ground out to second.
The Angels extended the lead to 6-0 in the fourth on an RBI single by Schanuel and a two-run line-drive double by Adell into the gap in left-center off reliever David Morgan.
Lowe then broke the game open in the fifth inning with his third home run, a two-run shot down the right field line to drive in Peraza, who had been hit by a pitch.
Anderson, the all-time hits leader among other offensive categories for the Angels' franchise, died at age 53 on Thursday. The Angels did not disclose a cause of death in announcing his passing on Friday. TMZ reported Anderson died following a medical emergency at his home in Newport Beach, Calif.
--Field Level Media
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