{"id":812083,"date":"2026-09-23T07:15:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T07:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/812083\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T07:15:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T07:15:17","slug":"angels-blow-6-0-lead-as-athletics-rally-to-a-9-7-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/812083\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels blow 6-0 lead as Athletics rally to a 9-7 victory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SACRAMENTO\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Carlos Cortes and Zack Gelof each hit a two-run homer in the eighth inning as the Athletics rallied past<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/angels\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> the Angels<\/a> <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/gameday\/angels-vs-athletics\/2026\/09\/22\/824953\/final\/box\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">9-7 on Tuesday<\/a> night.<\/p>\n<p>Cortes launched a drive to right-center off Sam Bachman (1-3) to give the A\u2019s a 7-6 lead, and Gelof cemented the comeback from a 6-0 deficit they faced just two innings before.<\/p>\n<p>Cortes came off the bench as a pinch-hitter in the seventh and finished two for two with a triple and three RBIs. He also scored twice.<\/p>\n<p>Hogan Harris gave up a run in the ninth but earned his 16th save by striking out pinch-hitter Oswald Peraza with two runners aboard.<\/p>\n<p>Luis Medina (6-3) pitched a scoreless inning for the win as the Athletics clinched the season series with one game remaining between the <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/standings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">bottom two teams in the AL West<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Carlos Cortes and Zack Gelof each hit a two-run homer in the eighth inning as the Athletics rallied&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[7663,291,537,5,33519,9233,6468,3654,1165,446,3223,4949,774,56,1593,3224,3222,4,98941,3933,22126,4415,15942,2022,3291],"class_list":["post-812083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-angels","tag-angel","tag-angels","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-carlos-cortes","tag-drive","tag-eighth-inning","tag-innings","tag-la","tag-la-angels","tag-laangels","tag-lead","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesangels","tag-mlb","tag-pinch-hitter-oswald-peraza","tag-runner","tag-season-series","tag-tuesday-night","tag-two-run-homer","tag-win","tag-zack-gelof"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117319127756152169","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}