Mike Trout and Jake Lamb hit solo homers in the 9th inning, Shohei Ohtani tied a career-high with 13 strikeouts and the Los Angeles Angels rallied to beat the St. Louis Cardinals 6-4 on Wednesday night.
Los Angeles has won six of its last eight games, while the Cardinals have lost five in a row.
Ohtani didn’t get the decision, but did become the second player in MLB history to record 500 career strikeouts and hit at least 100 home runs, joining Babe Ruth.
Ohtani gave up four runs on five hits over five innings and allowed two home runs for the second straight outing.
The Angels trailed 4-3 heading into the top of the ninth before Lamb launched his second homer of the season to right-center off Giovanny Gallegos (1-1), tying the game at 4. With one out, Trout hit his eighth home run of the season to left for the eventual game-winning run. Anthony Rendon added a run-scoring hit.
St. Louis starter Miles Mikolas allowed three runs on eight hits over 5 2/3 innings.
RHP Adam Wainwright will make his first start of the season on Saturday against Detroit.
RHP Jack Flaherty (2-3, 3.94) goes for St. Louis in a day game today, 11:20 with the pregame, first pitch at 12:15 on KIRX.