Angels Fall Short Despite Ureña's Solid Outing, Nationals Walk Off 6-5

So much for that elite starting pitching edge. The Angels dropped a heartbreaker 6-5 in Washington, sending DarkHorse's Angels -105 pick straight to the loss column. Walbert Ureña did his part, living up to that sparkling 2.74 ERA we banked on, but baseball's a nine-inning affair and the Nationals made sure to remind everyone of that fact late.

The Angels' vaunted road splits—3.29 runs scored, 2.43 allowed—showed up for most of the night as they built what looked like a comfortable cushion. But Andrew Alvarez, the guy we faded for his pedestrian 3.60 ERA, kept Washington close enough to matter. The Nationals' lineup, playing in front of their home crowd for the second straight night, finally broke through when it counted most.

Washington's 4.78 runs per game at home? Try six when the stakes are highest. Their bullpen or late-inning heroics—whatever the mechanism—turned a deficit into a walk-off winner. The Angels' road magic ran out at the worst possible moment, and that 0.86 ERA advantage Ureña held over Alvarez evaporated into the D.C. night air. Sometimes the math checks out and the baseball doesn't. That's April for you.