{"id":437947,"date":"2023-06-15T23:37:31","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T03:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=437947"},"modified":"2023-06-15T23:37:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T03:37:31","slug":"angels-beat-the-rangers-5-3-ohtani-ties-for-the-mlb-hr-lead","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/angels-beat-the-rangers-5-3-ohtani-ties-for-the-mlb-hr-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels beat the Rangers 5-3, Ohtani ties for the MLB HR lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shohei Ohtani pitched six innings and matched the MLB lead with his 22nd homer for the Los Angeles Angels 5-3 win over AL West-leading Texas Rangers 5-3 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Ohtani hit a two-run homer in the eighth. It was a 443-foot opposite-field blast that landed in the second deck in left-center field. His 10th homer over the past 16 games, and the second pitching start in a row when he also went deep, matched Pete Alonso for the big league lead and extended his hitting streak to 12 games.<\/p>\n<p>The Angels (39-32) won three of four games in Texas, and have won nine of their last 11 overall. They are still 4 1\/2 games behind the Rangers (42-26).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/34mZ1KLEzYo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shohei Ohtani pitched six innings and matched the MLB lead with his 22nd homer for the Los Angeles Angels 5-3 win over AL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":437948,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17073,17405],"news_category":[16708,14084],"gn_keywords":[18552,18579],"acf":{"announce":"Los Angeles are still 4 1\/2 games behind Texas in the league","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/437947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/437947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437947"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=437947"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=437947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}