Yoan Moncada and Josh Lowe homered 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.
Angels starter Jose Soriano (5-0) allowed two hits over 5 2/3 innings. He walked four and struck out eight, lowering major-league-leading ERA to 0.28. Soriano 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 for Los Angeles, which finished with 13 hits. Adam Frazier had a double, a single and two runs, Jo Adell hit a two-run double and Zach Neto and Oswald Peraza also had two hits for the Angels, who won for the third time in the past four games.
Padres starter Matt Waldron (0-1) gave up 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 an RBI single.
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. 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 off Waldron and a two-run line-drive double by Adell into the gap in left-center off reliever David Morgan.
Lowe 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 Angels’ all-time leader in hits and games, among other categories, died of a heart attack at age 53 on Thursday.
–Field Level Media
