Danny Espinosa sent the baseball soaring through the night and improbably provided the Angels a comeback victory over Oakland 7-6 for their first win of 2017, and his first hit as an Angel.
Reliever Ryan Dull had struck him out on a slider 24 hours earlier. In Tuesday’s ninth inning at the Oakland Coliseum, Dull had Espinosa cornered in an 0-and-2 count, and fired another slider. Espinosa anticipated it and slammed it out to right for a three-run, go-ahead home run, salvaging Matt Shoemaker’s return to a major league mound and erasing a bullpen blowup.