Shohei Ohtani and Mike Trout hit back-to-back homers at Coors Field, however Elias Díaz’s go-ahead grand slam within the eighth inning rallied the Colorado Rockies previous the Los Angeles Angels 7-4 on Friday evening.

Jurickson Profar launched a leadoff homer for the Rockies, who snapped their longest shedding streak of the season at eight video games.

Díaz additionally doubled and completed with three hits. His 426-foot drive to middle discipline marked the primary grand slam by a Rockies participant since Díaz went deep in Philadelphia on Sept. 10, 2021.

“This win tonight is going to turn around everything - about pitching, about defense, about hitting,” Díaz mentioned. “We’re going to start right now.”

Ohtani smashed his main league-leading twenty fifth dwelling run and was a triple shy of the cycle. He has at the least one extra-base hit in 10 consecutive street video games, a franchise file and the longest such streak within the majors since 2009.

It was the 2 hundredth dwelling run of his skilled profession, together with 151 within the majors.

PHOTOS: Ohtani hits MLB-best twenty fifth homer, goes back-to-back with Trout, however Díaz rallies Rockies previous Angels

“I’m going to try my best to hit 201 combined homers between the U.S. and Japan tomorrow,” Ohtani mentioned in an announcement supplied by the staff.

Ohtani’s tiebreaking shot within the fifth was adopted by Trout’s sixteenth of the season, giving Los Angeles a 4-2 lead. Both drives traveled a projected 434 ft.

It was the ninth time the 2 superstars have hit back-to-back dwelling runs, tying them for essentially the most in staff historical past with Trout and Albert Pujols.

“The pitch Ohtani hit is a pitch that there’s only one human being on this planet that has any business swinging at that pitch and that’s him,” Rockies starter Kyle Freeland mentioned.

Ezequiel Tovar trimmed it to 4-3 with an RBI single within the sixth.

Entering the evening, the Rockies have been 12-30 towards the Angels - their worst file towards any franchise.

Los Angeles had been 33-5 this season when main after seven innings.

Elehuris Montero and Coco Montes additionally had three hits for Colorado. Montes entered with one hit in his previous 21 at-bats.

Pierce Johnson (1-3) struck out three in a scoreless eighth for the win, and Justin Lawrence fanned two in a hitless ninth for his third save.

Sam Bachman (1-1) took the loss.

Díaz boosted his dwelling batting common to .348 this season. His grand slam got here after the Angels stranded runners on second and third within the eighth, when Johnson ended the risk by getting back from a 3-1 rely to strike out Ohtani.

“You can’t leave them out there in this park and we did it a few times tonight,” Angels supervisor Phil Nevin mentioned. “You’ve got to have a lot of runs here. It’s hard to say to put teams away because that’s not going to happen, but we certainly didn’t score enough runs to win in this park.”

TRAINER’S ROOM

Angels: Nevin mentioned 3B Anthony Rendon (bruised left wrist) felt “a lot better” after leaving his wrist alone Thursday. Rendon was positioned on the 10-day injured listing Monday.

UP NEXT

Rockies RHP Chase Anderson (0-1, 4.12 ERA) faces RHP Griffin Canning (5-2, 4.40) within the second sport of the sequence Saturday.

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