Oakland Athletics at Los Angeles Angels

· Major League Baseball

Oakland Athletics

44-64, 18-37 Away

Final
6 - 8

Los Angeles Angels

46-60, 23-32 Home

Taylor Ward's grand slam caps Angels' rally, LA beats Athletics 8-6 to avoid 4-game sweep

Ward's fourth-inning slam into the Oakland bullpen in left field off Osvaldo Bido (2-2) was the fourth of his career and the fourth by an Angel this season. His previous grand slam was on May 4, 2022, also against Oakland. He has 16 homers this season.

“It’s one of the most amazing feelings in baseball, besides maybe hitting a walk-off grand slam,” Ward said.

Brent Rooker hit a bases-clearing double in a six-run third inning for the A's, who had won eight of 10 and had already secured their fourth straight series win.

Luis Garcia, pressed into duty as Los Angeles' closer after Carlos Estevez was traded to Philadelphia a day earlier, retired the side on nine pitches in the ninth for his fourth save.

Roansy Contreras (2-1) pitched 1 1/3 innings of scoreless relief.

Bido walked Zach Neto, Nolan Schanuel and Luis Rengifo before Ward took him deep with two outs, putting the Angels ahead 7-6 and ending his day. Bido allowed seven runs on six hits in 3 2/3 innings.

“We came out and swung the bats well in the third. Got a six-run lead,” A’s manager Mark Kotsay said. “It was a long inning. Our starter sat for a little while. Leadoff hit by Neto and he hits (Jo) Adell. Similar game happened to us up in Oakland where you let them back into that game. Offensively, we couldn’t get anything more going on the rest of the game. We were one strike away. We hung a slider to Ward and it changed the outcome of the game.”

Willie Calhoun had a two-run single that got Los Angeles within 6-3 in the third.

Angels starter Jose Siriano was pulled after allowing four hits and a walk in the third. He was charged with six runs, three earned, in 2 2/3 innings.

A fielding error by Angels second baseman Brandon Drury on a grounder by Miguel Andujar allowed the first Oakland run to score.

“I was attacking the zone and continued attacking the zone,” Soriano said through an interpreter. “We had an error but those, you can’t do anything about it and that’s part of the game. I kept doing my thing.”

Athletics: LHP JP Sears (7-8, 4.81 ERA) will make his team-high 22nd start on Tuesday against the San Francisco Giants. He’s won three of his last four starts and has a career high in wins.

Angels: RHP Griffin Canning (3-10, 2.91) will start Tuesday against Colorado. Canning is 1-0 with a 2.31 ERA in two career starts against the Rockies.

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Matchup Prediction

Angels: 59.4%

Athletics: 40.6%

*According to ESPN's Basketball Power Index

Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Butler grounded out to third.
	9th Inning	Schuemann flied out to center.
	9th Inning	Nevin grounded out to second.
	9th Inning	García relieved Joyce
	8th Inning	O'Hoppe flied out to center.
	8th Inning	Pillar lined out to left.

Statistics

OAK		LAA
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	2
11	Ground Balls	11
11	Strikeouts	8
6	Runs Batted In	8
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
7	Hits	10
1	Stolen Bases	1
3	Walks	7
0	Catcher Interference	0
6	Runs	8
1	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
34	At Bats	33
0	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	1
10	Runners Left On Base	26
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
3	Doubles	1
12	Fly Balls	14
0	Caught Stealing	1
155	Pitches	150
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	1
10	Total Bases	14
37	Plate Appearances	42
0.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
3	Extra Base Hits	2
2.6	Runs Created	7.1
.206	Batting Average	.303
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.294	Slugging Percentage	.424
.206	Secondary Average	.333
.270	On Base Percentage	.452
.564	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.877
0.9	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.8
2.5	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	7.9
38.0	Batter Rating	48.0
0.0	At Bats Per Home Run	33.0
1.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.50
4.19	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.57
.088	Isolated Power	.121
0.27	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.88
.081	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.167
.000	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.030
12.0	Runs Produced	16.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.4	Patience Ratio	0.6
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.4
79.5	MLB Rating	93.5
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0