MILWAUKEE — For the second time in three days, an Angels player has seen his season come to a premature end.
Jose Soriano has thrown his last pitch of 2025 after suffering a right forearm contusion that landed the right-hander on the 15-day injured list on Thursday ahead of the team’s series finale against the Milwaukee Brewers.
Soriano suffered the injury in the second inning of Wednesday night’s 9-2 loss, when he was hit in the arm by a line drive off the bat of Milwaukee first baseman Jake Bauers.
“It’s feeling a little bit better than yesterday, but I’m still fighting,” Soriano said. “I don’t think there’s a reason to force anything with the way my arm feels right now.”
X-rays on Soriano’s arm came back negative but the team decided that with a career-high 169 innings under his belt already, the best option was shutting him down, letting him heal and shift his focus toward 2026.
“I said, ‘Hey, you have everything to be proud of,’” Angels interim manager Ray Montgomery said. “And now he knows what it’s like to make 31 starts in the big leagues and give us 160-plus innings. Next year, that’ll have a two in front of it. Just so many positives, and he knows what he needs to work on.
After making 20 starts (22 appearances overall) in 2024, Soriano became an anchor of the Angels’ rotation this season. He made 31 starts, just one behind teammate and Thursday starter Yusei Kikuchi, who leads all of MLB this season.
Soriano, who turns 27 next month, finishes the season 10-11 with a 4.26 ERA, 152 strikeouts and 78 walks. He led all qualified MLB starters with 0.6 home runs allowed per nine innings.
Most notable for the young pitcher: an 8-3 record and 2.91 ERA in 16 road starts.
“It was a pretty good season, a pretty special one,” Soriano said. “Especially because I got the opportunity to almost finish the season, which was one of my main primary goals.”
ALDEGHERI RETURNS
To replace Soriano on the roster, the Angels recalled Sam Aldegheri from Triple-A Salt Lake before the game.
After getting off to a slow start this season, Aldegheri had enjoyed much better results over the last six weeks and arrived at American Family Field with a 3.78 ERA and 113 strikeouts over 133⅓ innings of minor-league work.
“I changed a lot of stuff – mechanically, physically and mentally – after the All-Star break and it’s been working,” Aldegheri said. “I’m trying to stay more relaxed physically, the workload is better. Mentally, I was just trying to stay more in attack mode.”
Though he started all 24 of his minor-league appearances this season, Aldegheri was in the Angels’ bullpen against Milwaukee on Thursday night after the team had to cover 12 innings of relief over the first two games of the series.
He was scheduled to start Wednesday night for Salt Lake but was scratched and dispatched to Milwaukee when Soriano was injured.
JANSEN SKIPPING DENVER SERIES
Relief pitcher Kenley Jansen will not travel with the team to Denver for its weekend series against the Colorado Rockies due to previous heart issues that required the use of a defibrillator to re-start his heart.
Denver’s altitude can trigger atrial fibrillation.
“It’s just (precautionary), why risk it here at the end,” Jansen said. “Can I pitch in Colorado? Of course, but why should I risk it now and put myself in harm’s way.”
Jansen also opted out of a trip to Denver last season when he was pitching for the Boston Red Sox.
UP NEXT
Angels (LHP Mitch Farris, 1-1, 4.80 ERA) at Rockies (RHP Bradley Blalock, 1-5, 9.00 ERA), Friday, 5:10 p.m. PT, FDSN West, 830 AM