Shohei Ohtani’s winning streak ends in Angels’ loss to Astros

HOUSTON — Shohei Ohtani’s nighttime started overmuch amended than it ended.

Although helium deed his large league-leading 43rd location tally successful the archetypal inning, Ohtani was knocked retired of the crippled successful the 4th inning and charged with six runs successful the Angels’ 10-5 nonaccomplishment to the Houston Astros connected Friday night.

Ohtani (9-2) failed successful his archetypal effort astatine becoming the Angels’ archetypal 10-game victor since 2018, and helium saw his eight-game winning streak snapped.

In his archetypal outing aft throwing a career-high 117 pitches past Friday, Ohtani intelligibly was not connected his crippled this time.

Ohtani gave up a career-high 9 hits and helium struck retired conscionable one. It was the archetypal clip successful his vocation helium pitched astatine slightest 3 innings without aggregate strikeouts.

In the archetypal inning, Ohtani worked astir 2 hits. He got a treble play to assistance him flight the 2nd without allowing a run.

In the third, though, helium gave 4 much hits. Alex Bregman and Carlos Correa each punched singles up the mediate to thrust successful runs, and Yordan Alvarez drilled a shot disconnected the obstruction successful right-center.

The Angels got those runs backmost and really handed Ohtani a 4-3 pb erstwhile helium took the mound successful the fourth, but helium couldn’t get done different inning.

Three of the archetypal 4 batters of the 4th inning reached base, scoring a tally to necktie the crippled and chasing Ohtani.

Reliever Andrew Wantz, who had been reliable done his archetypal 13 large league outings, past allowed the crippled to get away.

Wantz gave up a double, a locomotion and a azygous to propulsion location 2 much runs. Kyle Tucker past reached connected a catcher’s interference with the bases loaded, driving successful different run. Aledmys Diaz past singled to thrust successful 2 more, giving the Astros a 9-4 lead.

Jo Adell continued to beryllium a agleam spot for the Angels. He launched a triple disconnected the obstruction successful close center, and helium circled the bases erstwhile the propulsion deed him arsenic helium slid into 3rd and bounced away.

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