SAN DIEGO — The relentless baseball season doesn’t allow much time to lament a mistake or celebrate a success.
A day after the Angels were rejoicing over their ninth-inning comeback victory, they gave away a two-run lead in the eighth and lost, 6-4, to the Padres in the ninth on Tuesday night.
Kenley Jansen gave up a walk-off, two-run homer to Fernando Tatis Jr. to end it.
In the eighth inning, Ryan Zeferjahn entered with a two-run lead. He walked two hitters. He still might have gotten out of the inning, but left fielder Taylor Ward got a bad jump on a two-out blooper, allowing it to drop for an RBI single.
Ward hit a tiebreaking grand slam a night earlier to cap the Angels’ improbable comeback victory in the ninth inning.
After Ward’s mistake, the Angels still had a one-run lead, but catcher Logan O’Hoppe and Zeferjahn each had mistakes on the wild pitch that allowed the tying run to score.
All of that spoiled the performances of José Soriano, who worked seven strong innings, and Matthew Lugo, whose pinch-hit, two-run homer put the Angels ahead 4-2 in the seventh.
Lugo came up as a pinch-hitter just after Jo Adell had tied the score with a double. He hammered the first pitch he saw over the left field fence.
It was the second homer for Lugo, both of them as a pinch-hitter, in his first five major-league games. He’s also tripled.
Soriano did not give up an earned run in seven innings. Considering Soriano was facing one of the best lineups in baseball, it was an impressive performance in a season that has been a mixed bag for Soriano.
Soriano had pitched at least six innings while allowing one or zero runs in three of his first eight starts, but the other five games were mediocre, leading to him bringing an ERA of 4.00 into Tuesday’s start.
Aside from a scare on a Jackson Merrill fly ball to the warning track in the first inning, Soriano didn’t get in trouble until the fifth inning.
Soriano issued a leadoff walk to Xander Bogaerts and then he gave up a single to Jake Cronenworth. The Padres parlayed that into two unearned runs, thanks to an error by Adell in right field and a bad throw from catcher Logan O’Hoppe. One of the runs scored on O’Hoppe’s bad throw and the second on a suicide squeeze.
Soriano stuck around to give the Angels two more innings, including one after they took the lead.
The Angels have been desperate to find someone to bridge the gap from the starter to Zeferjahn in the eighth, and Soriano simply did it himself. He struck out Elias Diaz on three pitches to retire the side, stranding two runners.
More to come on this story.
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