The three Southern California MLB teams all won Tuesday.
Christian Moore hit a two-run walk-off home run to center field as the Los Angeles Angels rallied to beat the Boston Red Sox 3-2 in 10 innings at Anaheim. The Los Angeles Dodgers won 9-7 at Colorado against the Rockies, and the San Diego Padres edged the Washington Nationals 4-3 at San Diego.
Moore home runs accounted for all the Angels scoring. Moore hit a solo homer in the eighth. Moore’s walk-off homer in the bottom of the 10th erased a 2-1 Angels deficit after the Red Sox had taken the lead with a run in the top of the 10th.
A three-run Rockies rally in the eighth inning fell short. Michael Conforto hit a three-run home run for the Dodgers in the fourth inning, and Shohei Ohtani hit his 27th homer of the year for the Dodgers, a two-run shot, in the sixth.
The Padres erased a 3-0 Nationals lead to get the win. Martin Maldonado tied the game with a solo homer to left center in the fifth inning, and the Padres scored the winning run on a Jose Iglesias groundout in the sixth. Robert Suarez pitched a 1-2-3 ninth to earn his 22nd save of the year.
At press time Wednesday, the Angels, Dodgers and Padres were to resume their respective series, and the Angels and Padres were to conclude theirs. The Dodgers will finish their series with the Rockies Thursday. The Angels and Padres are off that day.
The Angels won their sixth game out of their previous 10 Tuesday to climb with a game of .500 at 39-40 as of press time Wednesday.
At press time, the Tampa Bay Rays had cut the New York Yankees’ lead in the American League East Division to a single game. The Dodgers had widened their lead over the second-place San Francisco Giants in the National League West to 4.5 games at press time. Â