{"id":736202,"date":"2026-04-18T07:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T07:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/736202\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T07:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T07:16:14","slug":"angels-8-0-padres-apr-17-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/736202\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels 8-0 Padres (Apr 17, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANAHEIM, Calif. — \u2014 Jos\u00e9 Soriano pitched two-hit ball into the sixth inning of his fifth consecutive win, Yo\u00e1n Moncada and Josh Lowe<\/a> homered, and the Los Angeles Angels<\/a> snapped the San Diego Padres<\/a>‘ eight-game winning streak with an 8-0 victory Friday night.<\/p>\n

Adam Frazier<\/a> had an RBI triple and Jo Adell<\/a> had a two-run double for the Angels<\/a>, who opened a six-game homestand by blowing out a Southern California rival.<\/p>\n

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<\/a> as MLB’s only pitchers with five wins.<\/p>\n

Three Los Angeles relievers wrapped up a combined three-hitter in San Diego’s first shutout loss of the season.<\/p>\n

Before the first pitch, Angel Stadium aired a tribute video and observed a moment of silence for Garret Anderson<\/a>, 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\u2019s initials on their uniform shoulders.<\/p>\n

Matt Waldron<\/a> (0-1) yielded six runs on eight hits in his season debut for the Padres, who followed a perfect 7-0 homestand<\/a> with only their second loss in two weeks. San Diego had won 11 of 12 since its 2-5 start to the season.<\/p>\n

Waldron started 26 games for the Padres in 2024, but just one last year \u2014 and then the occasional knuckleballer got a late start on the current season after undergoing a procedure on a hemorrhoid in February.<\/p>\n

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<\/a> to ground out.<\/p>\n

Nolan Schanuel<\/a> chased Waldron with an RBI single in the fourth before Adell and Lowe delivered two-RBI hits off David Morgan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Soriano left after Manny Machado<\/a> singled and Xander Bogaerts<\/a> walked, but Chase Silseth<\/a> got Gavin Sheets<\/a> to fly out to the warning track in right.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Germ\u00e1n M\u00e1rquez (2-1, 5.54 ERA) takes the Big A mound for the Padres on Saturday to face the Halos’ struggling Yusei Kikuchi<\/a> (0-2, 7.50). <\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, Calif. — \u2014 Jos\u00e9 Soriano pitched two-hit ball into the sixth inning of his fifth consecutive win,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":736203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1266,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-736202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116424486866293413","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}