José Soriano dominates again, Angels snap Padres' 8-game win streak with 8-0 victory
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — José Soriano pitched two-hit ball into the sixth inning of his fifth consecutive win, Yoán Moncada and Josh Lowe homered, and the Los Angeles Angels snapped the San Diego Padres' eight-game winning streak with an 8-0 victory Friday night. Adam Frazier had an RBI triple and Jo Adell had a two-run double for the Angels , who opened a six-game homestand by blowing out a Southern California rival.
Soriano (5-0) continued his spectacular start to the season despite four walks, recording eight strikeouts and lowering his ERA to 0. 28 with just one run allowed in his 32 2/3 innings this season. The Angels' ace increased his major league-leading strikeout total to 39, and he joined Milwaukee's Aaron Ashby as MLB's only pitchers with five wins.
Three Los Angeles relievers wrapped up a combined three-hitter in San Diego's first shutout loss of the season. Before the first pitch, Angel Stadium aired a tribute video and observed a moment of silence for Garret Anderson , the longtime Angels outfielder and franchise hits leader whose death at 53 was announced by the team earlier Friday. The Angels are wearing a patch bearing Anderson’s initials on their uniform shoulders.
Matt Waldron (0-1) yielded six runs on eight hits in his season debut for the Padres, who followed a perfect 7-0 homestand with only their second loss in two weeks. San Diego had won 11 of 12 since its 2-5 start to the season. Waldron started 26 games for the Padres in 2024, but just one last year — and then the occasional knuckleballer got a late start on the current season after undergoing a procedure on a hemorrhoid in February.
After Moncada's homer began a three-run rally in the second, Soriano escaped a bases-loaded jam in the third by getting Jackson Merrill to ground out. Nolan Schanuel chased Waldron with an RBI single in the fourth before Adell and Lowe delivered two-RBI hits off David Morgan. Soriano left after Manny Machado singled and Xander Bogaerts walked, but Chase Silseth got Gavin Sheets to fly out to the warning track in right.