CINCINNATI -- José Soriano continued his overpowering and historic start to 2026, allowing just two hits over seven scoreless innings while the Angels offense scored early and often in an 9-6 win over the Reds Sunday in the rubber game at Great American Ball Park.
The Halos earned their first three-game series win vs. Cincinnati since a sweep Aug. 29-31, 2016 at Angel Stadium, and their first road series win since June 12-14, 2007.
Soriano (4-0), who struck out 10 and lowered his ERA to 0.33, has been dominant in his four starts this season. The right-hander tossed 106 pitches [69 strikes] Sunday and has allowed just one run over 27 innings, striking out 31 and walking nine.
Soriano is the first pitcher since at least 1900 to throw 25+ innings in his first four appearances of a season while allowing fewer than 10 hits and fewer than two runs.
Offensively, Mike Trout, Jo Adell, Logan O’Hoppe and Nolan Schanuel each had two hits, with Trout doubling, scoring twice and reaching on a walk.
Trout also escaped serious injury when he took a 93.9 mph foul ball line drive from Jorge Soler off his right elbow while taking a lead off third base in the second inning. Another Angel took a blow in a more sensitive place when O’Hoppe took a foul tip to the groin off the bat of Nathaniel Lowe in the seventh inning. He remained in the game after spending several minutes on the ground recovering.
The Angels knocked out Cincinnati starter Andrew Abbott (0-2) two batters into the fourth inning, getting to the lefty for seven runs on eight hits over his three innings of work. The Angels had two on and two out in the first before Vaughn Grissom, Schanuel and Logan O’Hoppe singled to cap the three run first. The Angels added two more in the second and the fourth to give Soriano more than enough cushion.
The Reds had no such success with Soriano, who held the home team hitless until Matt McLain opened the fourth with a clean ground ball single to center.