Nolan Schanuel came through with a clutch walk-off single in the 10th inning, lifting the Los Angeles Angels to a 2-1 victory over the Oakland Athletics on Tuesday night at Angel Stadium.
Schanuel’s game-winner—a shallow liner to center—brought home Jo Adell from second base for his first career walk-off hit. The win secured back-to-back one-run victories for the Angels.
Reid Detmers (2-2) picked up the win after striking out two of three batters to strand the A’s automatic runner in the top of the 10th. Hogan Harris (1-1) took the loss as Oakland dropped its 22nd game in the last 26.
The Angels were trailing 1-0 in the eighth when Travis d’Arnaud launched a pinch-hit solo homer on the first pitch he saw from T.J. McFarland, knotting the game at 1-1.
Angels starter José Soriano was dominant, recording a career-high 12 strikeouts while allowing just one run and two hits over seven innings. He issued two walks and threw a personal-best 110 pitches, including 22 swinging strikes.
In just his second start since transitioning from the bullpen, Oakland’s Mitch Spence held the Angels scoreless across five innings. He gave up three hits, struck out four, and didn’t issue a walk.
Soriano took a no-hitter into the sixth before Brent Rooker lined an RBI double just out of the reach of a diving Adell to give the A’s a brief 1-0 lead.
Key Moment
Veteran reliever Hunter Strickland worked out of a crucial jam in the eighth, stranding a runner at second with no outs. Signed to a minor league deal in May, Strickland has thrown 11 scoreless innings in nine appearances with the Angels.
Key Stat
D’Arnaud’s game-tying blast in the eighth was the second pinch-hit homer of his MLB career, the first coming in 2021 while with the Braves.
Up Next
In the series finale on Wednesday, the Angels send Kyle Hendricks (2-6, 5.34 ERA) to the mound to face A’s lefty JP Sears (5-5, 5.21 ERA).
