The Angels had to turn the page after Sunday. They did their best, earning Michael Stefanic’s RBI single in a 4-3 overtime win over the New York Yankees at Angel Stadium.
Starter Griffin Canning hit a career-high 12 batters, going 5 ⅔ innings while throwing a career-high 120 pitches. Toss in Shohei Ohtani’s not-so-subtle reminder of why he’s the most talked-about player this month and the Angels never stopped fighting throughout the game.
Canning is out for the sixth inning having already thrown 101 pitches. Manager Phil Nevin came out in that sixth inning after Canning beat the Yankees’ Isiah Kiner-Falefa, but Canning stayed, determined to come out last. He was finally fired after loading the bases.
It was length and strength the Angels needed to avoid the same snowball effect that happened with the rest of their pitch on Sunday.
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Reliever Jimmy Herget came on to replace Canning for the final of the sixth, but two runs were scored after Yankees right fielder Oswaldo Cabrera scored a two-run double.
Matt Thaiss cut the Angels’ deficit to one run after hitting a solo homer late in the sixth inning, though the Yankees clawed back that run the next inning on a sacrifice fly.
Ohtani, who went three-for-four on the night, tied the game in the bottom of the seventh when he hit a two-run homer, earning him a triple under the cycle. He hit in his last at bat.
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This story originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times.