Angels 8, White Sox 2: d’Arnaud’s Three-Run Shot Sparks Anaheim Breakthrough

The lead

May 6, 2026 - Anaheim, Calif. - The Los Angeles Angels snapped a long stretch of series frustration with a loud middle inning and a tidy staff night. Travis d’Arnaud cracked a three-run homer—his first of the season—Walbert Ureña worked six innings of two-hit ball, and the Angels topped the Chicago White Sox 8-2, per the Associated Press recap on ESPN.

Los Angeles claimed its first series win since April 10-12 at Cincinnati and improved to 2-7-2 in series play on the year, a small but meaningful line for a club looking for traction.

How the game turned

The five-run second defined it. d’Arnaud’s 396-foot drive off Noah Schultz (2-2) opened the floodgates. Bryce Teodosio doubled on a ball that eluded Jarred Kelenic in right, Zach Neto tripled home a run, and Mike Trout plated another when Chase Meidroth lost an infield popup in the sun—an afternoon glare sequence that turned contact into crooked numbers.

Later, Jorge Soler and Jo Adell took back-to-back hit-by-pitches with the bases loaded against Osvaldo Bido to force two more runs in the fourth. Drew Pomeranz added a bases-loaded plunk of his own in the seventh for Chicago’s second run—the first game in at least 70 seasons with three bases-loaded hit batters, per Elias as cited by ESPN.

Pitching and matchup notes

Ureña (1-3) allowed one run, struck out five, and walked three in his second quality start of the season. Brent Suter, Pomeranz, and Chase Silseth finished a four-hitter that kept Munetaka Murakami, tied for the big-league homer lead, quiet on a four-strikeout afternoon—his second such game of 2026, per the wire story.

Schultz absorbed seven hits and seven runs in 3 2/3 innings after permitting six earned runs total over his previous four starts combined.

Bats that changed the board

Neto’s triple and traffic on the bases pressured Chicago early; Meidroth’s two hits led a thin road attack that never matched Anaheim’s inning pressure.

AthX Engine fantasy angle

The Angels ranked fourth on May 6 with 17 AthX Engine team FP, while Zach Neto posted 8 hitting FP in the same daily data. Blow-up innings and a low-hit staff line often move team totals in opposite helpful ways for fantasy scoring. AthX Engine is not the same as dynamic pricing.

What comes next

Chicago heads home for Seattle on Friday with Sean Burke and Emerson Hancock tabbed in the AP lookahead, while the Angels open at Toronto with Reid Detmers and Dylan Cease—rotation names worth circling after a week that finally featured a series W in Anaheim.

*Sources: MLB.com schedule, ESPN recap, Associated Press via ESPN, and AthX Engine scoring. Information only; not financial advice.*