Angels salvage series with 6-run 10th inning to beat A's

Jeff Fletcher, The Orange County Register on Aug 17, 2025

Published in Baseball

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WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. —The Los Angeles Angels finished a disappointing weekend on a high note.

After losing the first two games against the Athletics, the Angels salvaged the final game of the series by winning, 11-5, in 10 innings on Sunday afternoon.

Jo Adell, who started the day with a three-run homer, drove in the tie-breaking run with a single in the 10th. A perfect sacrifice bunt from Logan O’Hoppe set up Christian Moore to drive in an insurance run. With the infield drawn in, Moore hit a bouncer to shortstop Darrell Hernaiz, whose throw home was not in time to get Taylor Ward.

Luis Rengifo then tripled, driving in two more, and he scored on Bryce Teodosio’s sacrifice fly.

Zach Neto followed with his 21st homer of the season, a 436-foot blast to left, completing the six-run outburst.

The Angels (60-64) had been in jeopardy of an embarrassing sweep, which would have been particularly disheartening after the high of a sweep against the Dodgers earlier in the week.

Although the Angels had an early three-run lead on Adell’s homer and a two-run lead in the sixth, they didn’t get a single baserunner in the seventh, eighth or ninth innings. Closer Kenley Jansen then had to escape a bases-loaded jam in the bottom of the ninth to get the game into extra innings.

Angels starter José Soriano gave up five runs in 5 2/3 innings. Three of the runs came on solo homers. He gave up homers to Nick Kurtz and Shea Langeliers on back-to-back pitches in the third inning. In the fourth, he gave up a homer to Lawrence Butler.

It was the first time in Soriano’s career that he allowed three homers in a game.

Soriano left with a 5-4 lead, but the A’s tied with a single against left-hander Brock Burke. Left-hander Reid Detmers and right-hander Luis Garcia collaborated on the next six outs to get the game to the ninth, still tied.

The afternoon started out well for the Angels when they took a 3-0 lead in the first inning.

Adell, who came up just short of a grand slam in the first inning of Saturday’s loss, didn’t miss when he had the chance in the first inning on Sunday. Adell crushed the first pitch 115 mph, lining it over the left field fence for a three-run homer. It was his 26th homer of the season, an ongoing career high.

Adell also doubled in the fifth inning. He and Mike Trout both came home on Moore’s two-out bloop single, putting the Angels up 5-3.

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