NEW YORK — José Soriano delivered exactly what the Angels needed.
Soriano pitched seven scoreless innings as the Angels pulled out a 1-0, 11-inning victory over the New York Yankees on Monday night, snapping their three-game losing streak.
Nolan Schanuel drove in the game’s only run with a one-out double in the 11th. Even though the Angels then loaded the bases on two walks, they didn’t get an insurance run.
Left-hander Brock Burke and right-hander Hunter Strickland got through the bottom of the inning without the Yankees cashing in their automatic runner.
Cody Bellinger hit a fly ball to deep right field, sending the runner to third. Jasson Dominguez broke his bat on a blooper to second baseman Christian Moore, who threw the runner out at the plate.
An infield hit loaded the bases with two outs.
Strickland then entered and threw one pitch, getting Anthony Volpe on a grounder to end it.
By converting in the 11th, the Angels made sure that they didn’t waste Soriano’s gem.
Soriano gave up six hits, striking out six and walking one, in a 101-pitch performance, cutting his ERA to 3.54 in his second season as a major league starter.
Soriano backed up a dominating outing last week against the Athletics with another stellar performance. He allowed one run in 14 innings in the two games, becoming the first Angels pitcher to work seven innings in consecutive starts this season.
Soriano was only in one real jam, when he gave up back-to-back one-out singles in the first inning. He got Cody Bellinger and Giancarlo Stanton on groundouts to escape.
Soriano also give up a leadoff double to Jazz Chisholm Jr. in the second, only to retire the next three.
All of that served only to stay even with Yankees right-hander Clarke Schmidt, who once against dominated the Angels.
He shut out the Angels over six innings last month at Angel Stadium, and this time he didn’t allow a run in seven innings.
In the first inning, both Zach Neto and Mike Trout bounced ground balls up the middle for singles. Taylor Ward hit a pop-up and Jorge Soler struck out.
After that, the Angels didn’t have another baserunner until Nolan Schanuel’s bloop single in the sixth.
Although they weren’t getting on base, they were at least doing a better job than usual of making contact. The Angels, who have been among the major league leaders in strikeouts all season, struck out just three times against Schmidt.
The Angels had a chance in the ninth, when Trout and Soler singled. But Logan O’Hoppe grounded out.
In the bottom of the ninth, the Angels worked around a leadoff double with Kenley Jansen on the mound. Third baseman Luis Rengifo fielded a ground ball and in one motion tagged Jasson Dominguez sliding into the third.
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