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    Jo Adell’s late homer lifts Angels to comeback victory over Rockies
    • July 31, 2024

    ANAHEIM — A fairly somber day for Angels fans at least ended with a victory.

    On a day when the Angels didn’t make enough trades to suit many of their fans and got disappointing injury news on Mike Trout, Anthony Rendon and even Chase Silseth, the good news came in the form of a come-from-behind 10-7 victory over the Colorado Rockies on Tuesday night.

    Jo Adell snapped a tie with a seventh-inning homer, the third time in the last two weeks he put the Angels ahead late in a victory. Matt Thaiss also had a career-high five RBIs.

    While the larger stories all point to a miserable season, the Angels can take some solace in the fact that they’ve now been holding their own for two months. The Angels (47-60) are 26-22 since June 2.

    They’ve overcome deficits of at least four runs in each of their last two games.

    Griffin Canning put them in a 6-2 hole by the second inning, but the Angels took a one-run lead by the fourth. After the Rockies tied it in the seventh, Adell put them back on top with his 16th homer in the bottom of the inning.

    After Adell’s homer, Ben Joyce pitched a perfect eighth. Joyce is going to get some save opportunities now that both Carlos Estévez and Luis Garcia have been traded, but this time Manager Ron Washington had him set up right-hander Hunter Strickland.

    The Angels had added two insurance runs before Strickland then worked the ninth, finishing off a game that they seemed destined to lose in the second inning.

    Canning gave up six runs within the first 12 batters of the game. He allowed two runs in the first and then four in the second, three on a Ryan McMahon homer just inside the left field pole.

    After that, though, Canning locked down. He retired the next 17 hitters in a row, getting through the sixth inning.

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    That gave the Angels time to erase the early 6-2 deficit.

    Thaiss drove in two with a double in the third, including Neto coming home on a nice head-first slide.

    In the fourth, Nolan Schanuel was able to extend the rally with an athletic “swim move” to get around a tag as he slid into third. Schanuel had led off the inning with a single, and the Angels followed with three more hits and a hit batter.

    The final two runs came home on a Thaiss two-out single. His RBI in the eighth gave him a career-high.

    José Quijada cost Canning the opportunity to become the first Angels pitcher since 2012 to get a victory when he allowed six or more runs. Quijada gave up a game-tying homer to Ezequiel Tovar in the seventh.

    More to come on this story.

    ​ Orange County Register 

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