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04/17 23:41 CDT Jos Soriano dominates again, Angels snap Padres' 8-game win
streak with 8-0 victory
Jos Soriano dominates again, Angels snap Padres' 8-game win streak with 8-0
victory
By GREG BEACHAM
AP Sports Writer
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) --- Jos Soriano pitched two-hit ball into the sixth
inning of his fifth consecutive win, Yon 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.
Up next
Germn Mrquez (2-1, 5.54 ERA) takes the Big A mound for the Padres on Saturday
to face the Halos' struggling Yusei Kikuchi (0-2, 7.50).
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