{"id":1963,"date":"2026-08-06T02:32:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T02:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=1963"},"modified":"2026-08-06T02:32:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T02:32:39","slug":"angels-offense-cant-solve-trevor-rogers-in-loss-to-orioles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=1963","title":{"rendered":"Angels offense can&#8217;t solve Trevor Rogers in loss to Orioles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/4c78fc5\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/5819x3055+0+412\/resize\/1200x630!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F2d%2F23%2F6cfb40eb4c54a1359ede2d78133d%2Fangels-orioles-baseball-9841.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Angels offense can&#8217;t solve Trevor Rogers in loss to Orioles\" title=\"Angels offense can&#8217;t solve Trevor Rogers in loss to Orioles\" \/><\/div><p><\/p>\n<div data-element=\"story-body\" data-dateline=\"\" data-subscriber-content=\"\">\n<p><span class=\"dateline\">BALTIMORE\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<\/span>Tyler O\u2019Neill and Coby Mayo hit successive homers in the fourth inning, Trevor Rogers took a two-hitter into the seventh and the Baltimore Orioles beat <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/angels\">the Angels<\/a> <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/gameday\/angels-vs-orioles\/2026\/08\/05\/824806\/final\/box\" target=\"_blank\">5-2 Wednesday night<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite unloading several key players before Monday\u2019s trade deadline, the Orioles remain in the thick of the AL wild-card race after winning the first two games of this series against the last-place Angels.<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore (56-58) will seek to complete a three-game sweep on Thursday. With a victory, the Orioles will move <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/standings\" target=\"_blank\">within a game of .500<\/a> for the first time since April 30.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a surprising scenario for a team that traded catcher Adley Rutschman, outfielder Taylor Ward and pitchers Tyler Wells and Dean Kremer.<\/p>\n<p>Angels starter Reid Detmers (3-8) issued a one-out walk to Gunnar Henderson in the fourth before O\u2019Neill ripped a fastball far over the left-field wall \u2014 his ninth homer of the season and second in two days.<\/p>\n<p>Mayo followed with a shot to the same vicinity, only slightly farther at an estimated 436 feet.<\/p>\n<p>Leody Taveras tacked on a pinch-hit, two-run homer in the eighth to help seal the Orioles\u2019 17th win in 27 games.<\/p>\n<p>Rogers (7-7) was lifted after giving up a leadoff single in the seventh. He gave up two runs, had a season-high nine strikeouts and walked none.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Hoppe, obtained from Boston in the trade for Rutschman, took over and yielded a pinch-hit RBI single to Wade Meckler that got the Angels within 3-2.<\/p>\n<p>Yennier Cano worked the eighth and Andrew Kittredge got three out for his fifth save.<\/p>\n<p>Jose Siri homered for the Angels, who have lost 10 of 12.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BALTIMORE\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Tyler O\u2019Neill and Coby Mayo hit successive homers in the fourth inning, Trevor Rogers took a two-hitter into the seventh and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Angels 5-2 Wednesday night. Despite unloading several key players before Monday\u2019s trade deadline, the Orioles remain in the thick of the AL wild-card race after winning the first two&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/4c78fc5\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/5819x3055+0+412\/resize\/1200x630!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F2d%2F23%2F6cfb40eb4c54a1359ede2d78133d%2Fangels-orioles-baseball-9841.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1495,547,3669,3673,3672,3670,3671],"class_list":["post-1963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-angels","tag-loss","tag-offense","tag-orioles","tag-rogers","tag-solve","tag-trevor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}