Angels rally to beat Dodgers 3-2 in 10 innings; Ohtani homers against his old team
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — singled in the go-ahead run in the 10th inning, lifting the Los Angeles Angels over the Los Angeles Dodgers 3-2 on Friday night in against his old team.
The Angels won in extra innings for the first time this season, after losing three previous times.
“It’s awesome,” Ward said. “You just never know with us. Just got to keep fighting.”
Ohtani hit a two-run homer with two outs in the fifth that put the Dodgers ahead. He was 2 for 2 with two walks but to end the eighth. The Dodgers managed just three other hits.
“I just made a bad pitch,” Angels reliever Matt Moore said. “The guys came back really good so I just washed it away. It’s very hard to win here. Our team did a really good job of playing all the way to the end.”
Ohtani left Anaheim for the Dodgers last December, signing . He’s homered in four of his last six games and has scored a run and driven in a run in six straight games, a team best.
“He’s playing really good baseball and tonight we just couldn’t support him,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said.
Many of the young Angels in the lineup didn’t play with Ohtani before he departed and some of the veterans who did, like Mike Trout and Anthony Rendon, are injured.
“We all know who Shohei is — superstar,” Angels manager Ron Washington said before the game. “This is the Dodgers and when you play against the Dodgers you got one thing on your mind, you want to win because then it might put you on the map.”
Jo Adell started the 10th at second base and was sacrificed to third by Nolan Schanuel. Dodgers closer Evan Phillips (0-1) came in and retired Luis Rengifo on a groundout before Ward singled to left.
The Dodgers couldn’t produce in the bottom of the inning. Cavan Biggio started at second and took third on Jason Heyward’s groundout, but struck out Kiké Hernández and Gavin Lux to end the game and earn his 14th save.
Luis García (2-0) got the win with two innings of relief.
Ohtani’s 455-foot shot — his NL-leading 22nd homer of the season — into right-center off Moore scored Austin Barnes, who singled, and snapped a scoreless tie. It was Ohtani’s seventh homer in his last 11 games.
“Best player on the planet,” Estévez said. “Still amazing to see how hard he can hit the ball.”
Dodgers relievers hit four batters in two innings. Ryan Yarbrough became the club’s first pitcher to plunk three in one inning — a career worst for him — since Carl Doyle on June 8, 1940.
The Angels tied the game in the sixth, when Yarbrough hit Rengifo leading off. Ward singled before Logan O’Hoppe got hit to load the bases. Yarbrough then plunked Zach Neto to force in a run. followed with a groundout to second that scored Ward and tied the game, 2-2.
“He’s a guy that typically we count on for command,” Roberts said of Yarbrough. “He just didn’t have command. He just wasn’t sharp.”
Angels starter Patrick Sandoval departed with left forearm tightness after walking Ohtani in the third. He will have an MRI on Saturday. “Really painful,” he said. “Something I never really felt before.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
Angels: RHP José Soriano (abdomen infection) was scratched from the lineup and placed on the 15-day IL. ... Utilityman Brandon Drury was scratched for the second straight game because of illness. ... 3B Anthony Rendon (left hamstring) joined the team in LA and worked on the field.
Dodgers: 3B Max Muncy (oblique) was moved to the 60-day IL. ... LHP Clayton Kershaw (shoulder) will throw four innings in his second rehab start Tuesday for Triple-A Oklahoma City at Reno.
UP NEXT:
RHP Zach Plesac (1-0, 4.50 ERA), coming off a 5-3 win over Milwaukee earlier in the week, starts Saturday for the Angels. RHP Tyler Glasnow (7-5, 3.00) makes his team-high 16th start for the Dodgers in the series finale.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — singled in the go-ahead run in the 10th inning, lifting the Los Angeles Angels over the Los Angeles Dodgers 3-2 on Friday night in against his old team.
The Angels won in extra innings for the first time this season, after losing three previous times.
“It’s awesome,” Ward said. “You just never know with us. Just got to keep fighting.”
Ohtani hit a two-run homer with two outs in the fifth that put the Dodgers ahead. He was 2 for 2 with two walks but to end the eighth. The Dodgers managed just three other hits.
“I just made a bad pitch,” Angels reliever Matt Moore said. “The guys came back really good so I just washed it away. It’s very hard to win here. Our team did a really good job of playing all the way to the end.”
Ohtani left Anaheim for the Dodgers last December, signing . He’s homered in four of his last six games and has scored a run and driven in a run in six straight games, a team best.
“He’s playing really good baseball and tonight we just couldn’t support him,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said.
Many of the young Angels in the lineup didn’t play with Ohtani before he departed and some of the veterans who did, like Mike Trout and Anthony Rendon, are injured.
“We all know who Shohei is — superstar,” Angels manager Ron Washington said before the game. “This is the Dodgers and when you play against the Dodgers you got one thing on your mind, you want to win because then it might put you on the map.”
Jo Adell started the 10th at second base and was sacrificed to third by Nolan Schanuel. Dodgers closer Evan Phillips (0-1) came in and retired Luis Rengifo on a groundout before Ward singled to left.
The Dodgers couldn’t produce in the bottom of the inning. Cavan Biggio started at second and took third on Jason Heyward’s groundout, but struck out Kiké Hernández and Gavin Lux to end the game and earn his 14th save.
Luis García (2-0) got the win with two innings of relief.
Ohtani’s 455-foot shot — his NL-leading 22nd homer of the season — into right-center off Moore scored Austin Barnes, who singled, and snapped a scoreless tie. It was Ohtani’s seventh homer in his last 11 games.
“Best player on the planet,” Estévez said. “Still amazing to see how hard he can hit the ball.”
Dodgers relievers hit four batters in two innings. Ryan Yarbrough became the club’s first pitcher to plunk three in one inning — a career worst for him — since Carl Doyle on June 8, 1940.
The Angels tied the game in the sixth, when Yarbrough hit Rengifo leading off. Ward singled before Logan O’Hoppe got hit to load the bases. Yarbrough then plunked Zach Neto to force in a run. followed with a groundout to second that scored Ward and tied the game, 2-2.
“He’s a guy that typically we count on for command,” Roberts said of Yarbrough. “He just didn’t have command. He just wasn’t sharp.”
Angels starter Patrick Sandoval departed with left forearm tightness after walking Ohtani in the third. He will have an MRI on Saturday. “Really painful,” he said. “Something I never really felt before.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
Angels: RHP José Soriano (abdomen infection) was scratched from the lineup and placed on the 15-day IL. ... Utilityman Brandon Drury was scratched for the second straight game because of illness. ... 3B Anthony Rendon (left hamstring) joined the team in LA and worked on the field.
Dodgers: 3B Max Muncy (oblique) was moved to the 60-day IL. ... LHP Clayton Kershaw (shoulder) will throw four innings in his second rehab start Tuesday for Triple-A Oklahoma City at Reno.
UP NEXT:
RHP Zach Plesac (1-0, 4.50 ERA), coming off a 5-3 win over Milwaukee earlier in the week, starts Saturday for the Angels. RHP Tyler Glasnow (7-5, 3.00) makes his team-high 16th start for the Dodgers in the series finale.
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Knoblauch, Oilers Successfully Challenge for Offsides, Wiping Out Apparent Panthers Goal
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — The Edmonton Oilers made all the right moves on their run to the Stanley Cup Final.
The coach who took over in November made a crucial challenge against the Florida Panthers in Game 6 of the final. The offside call nullified a goal by Aleksander Barkov just 10 seconds after Adam Henrique scored to give the Oilers a 2-0 lead, marking a turning point in the game they won 5-1.
“The offside call, it’s a nice break to go our way, for sure,” forward Ryan Nugent-Hopkins said. “At the end of the day, he’s got to make the call, so it’s probably a little stressful to make that call at that time of the game.”
Officials, in consultation with the NHL’s situation room in Toronto, found that Sam Reinhart was in the zone maybe an inch before Barkov carried it in. The sellout crowd of over 18,000 roared when Chris Rooney announced that the play was offside and waved off the goal.
“I actually didn’t think it was that close,” Knoblauch said. “In my mind, it was definitely offside, but I guess you never know. It was something I wanted to challenge almost immediately when I saw it.”
Throughout the playoffs, Knoblauch has pushed the right buttons, whether it be a goaltending change in the second round or tweaking his lineup. Had the challenge been unsuccessful, by league rules, Edmonton would have received a two-minute minor penalty, putting Florida on the power play with a chance to tie the game.
“It was very tight,” center Leon Draisaitl said. “I personally thought it was the right call, but you never know. Knobber has the right touch. He knows what he’s doing, and he seems to make the right decisions a lot more often than not. That was a big one.”
Knoblauch credited video coach Noah Segall and video and coaching analytics coordinator Mike Fanelli for their role in the decision.
“The guys in the back room, I’ve sat back there and watched them do their job,” defenseman Darnell Nurse said. “They’re so to the point and analyzing everything. Obviously, they were very confident and they made the right call. It was a huge point for us.”
Panthers coach Paul Maurice did little to hide his disbelief when the goal was taken down, screaming at officials from his spot behind the Florida bench. Afterward, he said he was upset initially because he did not see the angle that the league and officials used to overturn the goal.
“The linesperson informed me it was the last clip that they got where they made the decision that it shows it’s offside,” Maurice said. “I don’t know what the Oilers get. I don’t know what the league gets. I just know that when I would have had to have challenged that based on what I saw, I would not have challenged. I’m not saying it’s not offside. We’ll get still frames, we’ll bring in the CIA and we’ll figure it out, but in the 30 seconds that I would have made that call, I would not have challenged it.”
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