Jo Adell slammed a two-run homer to cap a six-run sixth inning as the Los Angeles Angels rallied past the Athletics 6-5 on Wednesday afternoon in Anaheim, Calif., to sweep their three-game series.
Jorge Soler added a two-run single in the sixth. Mike Trout and Kevin Newman each had two singles and scored a run for the Angels, who have won five of six.
Angels starter Kyle Hendricks (4-6) allowed three runs (two earned) and seven hits in six innings, striking out three and walking one.
Oakland left-hander JP Sears breezed through five innings before getting in trouble in the sixth. He was finished after 5 1/3 innings, allowing two runs and four hits with nine strikeouts and no walks.
Brent Rooker had two home runs, a double, a single, three RBIs and three runs for the A’s, who have lost four of five.
Rooker doubled down the third-base line with one out in the first and scored on Max Muncy’s two-out single for a 1-0 lead.
Rooker led off the third by lifting a low changeup over the fence in left for a 2-0 lead.
A sacrifice fly by Max Schuemann in the fourth made it 3-0.
Trout’s two hard-hit singles represented the only baserunners for the Angels through five innings, but Newman and Zach Neto led off the sixth with singles.
Grant Holman (4-2) replaced Sears with one out and walked Trout to load the bases. Taylor Ward was then hit by a pitch to force in a run and make it 3-1.
Soler followed with a grounder that squeezed between the middle infielders, which drove in two to tie it 3-3.
Osvaldo Bido replaced Holman and gave up a sacrifice fly to Travis d’Arnaud before Adell stepped up and blasted a two-run shot to left — his 13th homer this season and seventh in the last 11 games — to make it 6-3.
Angels right-hander Ryan Zeferjahn relieved Hendricks to start the seventh and walked Schuemann with one out before surrendering a two-out, two-run homer to Rooker that cut the lead to 6-5.
Connor Brogdon started the eighth for Los Angeles and gave up a leadoff double to JJ Bleday. After Brogdon coaxed a popout, Soler ran a long way before making a sliding catch in shallow right for the second out.
Reid Detmers pitched the ninth for his second save, getting Rooker to fly out just shy of the track for the second out — the only time he was retired in the game.
–Field Level Media
