ANAHEIM — José Soriano came into Friday night’s game riding the momentum of back-to-back scoreless outings, including arguably the best game of his career.
That came to a crashing end quickly.
Soriano walked the bases loaded in the first inning on his way to giving up eight runs in the Angels’ 10-4 loss to the Athletics.
Soriano’s season has been an inexplicable rollercoaster, in which he’s looked either dominant or awful, with few games in between.
Last week Soriano pitched twice on the Angels’ 10-game trip, shutting out the Texas Rangers over 5⅔ innings and then blanking the Houston Astros on just one hit over seven innings.
Soriano walked only four hitters in those two games, and he equaled that seven batters into Friday’s game. He finished with five walks.
He was fortunate to get out of the first allowing only two runs, even though he threw 28 pitches and 10 were strikes. And then the Angels came right back in the bottom of the inning with four runs against Athletics right-hander Mason Barnett, who was making the second start of his career.
Still leading 4-2 in the third, Soriano absolutely fell apart.
Soriano retired only one of the seven hitters he faced in the inning, including JJ Bleday’s three-run homer on a sinker over the middle of the plate.
It was the eighth time this season that Soriano has allowed at least five runs, including four times when he’s allowed at least seven runs.
His ERA for the season is still only 4.07 because of how good he’s been in the other games.
The Angels (66-75) have tried to unlock whatever happens mentally with Soriano to keep him from getting out of trouble when things go sideways, including having him talk to Hall of Famer Pedro Martinez.
It’s also fair to ask if Soriano is getting worn down after throwing 163⅔ innings. In 2023, he was a reliever and pitched 65⅓ innings in the minors and majors. Last season, his first as a full-time starter, he pitched 113 innings.
After Soriano was done, the Angels got their first look at right-hander José Ureña, who is with his fifth team this season. Ureña pitched five scoreless innings, allowing just two hits.
Ureña gave the Angels’ hitters a chance to get back in the game, which didn’t seem unrealistic considering Barnett’s first inning. But the Angels only had one hit against Barnett over the next four innings.
Mike Trout struck out twice, walked and was hit by a pitch, which extended his home run drought to 23 games. That equals the second-longest drought of his career, and it is the second-longest within a single season. He went 27 games without a homer in 2015.
Trout has been struck on 398 career homers since Aug. 6.
More to come on this story.
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