ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Jake Cave hit a tying two-run home run with two outs in the ninth inning and the Colorado Rockies scored on an error in the 10th to beat the Los Angeles Angels 5-4 on Thursday night.
Cave homered off Hunter Strickland, the right-hander who is being used to finish off games after closer Carlos Estevez was traded to Philadelphia on Saturday.
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Colorado Rockies starting pitcher Ryan Feltner throws during the first inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels in Anaheim, Calif., Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)
Los Angeles Angels' Mickey Moniak (16) celebrates with teammate Brandon Drury after hitting a home run during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies in Anaheim, Calif., Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)
Los Angeles Angels' Logan O'Hoppe celebrates while running the bases after hitting a home run during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies in Anaheim, Calif., Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)
Colorado Rockies' Jacob Stallings, right, is hit by a pitch during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels in Anaheim, Calif., Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)
Colorado Rockies designated hitter Charlie Blackmon runs to first base during the third inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels in Anaheim, Calif., Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)
Colorado Rockies' Michael Toglia (4) celebrates in the dugout after hitting a home run during the second inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels in Anaheim, Calif., Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)
“You just want to get it to the next guy and hope somebody can put a run across, but you get to a 3-1 count and you tell yourself that this is the time to get my best swing off,” Cave said. “He left one center cut and that's what (can) happen when they get behind.”
Michael Toglia added a two-run home run for the Rockies, who have won consecutive games following a five-game losing streak. Colorado won a series for the third time in four tries since the All-Star break.
“All wins count the same, but some wins are better than others,” Rockies manager Bud Black said. “This was a good one. Coming off our (losing) series in San Francisco then coming here winning two in a row, in two close games, really good stuff. This is going to be a good bus ride down (to San Diego) for everybody.”
With Jacob Stallings at second base to open the 10th inning for Colorado, Sam Hilliard attempted a sacrifice bunt. Angels right-hander Hans Crouse (4-3) threw the ball wide of first base, allowing Hillard to score the go-ahead run.
Logan O’Hoppe and Mickey Moniak hit home runs for the Angels, who have lost five of their past seven games. Right-hander Carson Fulmer gave up two runs on three hits over six innings for Los Angeles in his fourth start of the season.
Stickland has one save and one blown save since taking over as closer.
“He just gave into that hitter, tried to get a strike over there and make him swing the bat” Angels manager Ron Washington said of Strickland's at-bat against Cave. “He got us to the point where we needed just one pitch to get out of that inning and he didn't make it.”
Toglia gave the Rockies a 2-0 lead in the seventh inning with his 19th home run, immediately following a single from Brendan Rodgers.
The Angels tied it in the fourth inning when Willie Calhoun led off with a single and O’Hoppe hit a home run to center, his 16th. Moniak’s home run in the sixth ,to give the Angels a 4-3 lead, was his seventh on the season.
The Angels added a run in the seventh inning for a 4-2 lead on a double from Taylor Ward.
Colorado right-hander Ryan Feltner gave up three runs over six innings for Colorado, while right-hander Victor Vodnik (3-1) pitched a scoreless ninth inning. Right-hander Tyler Kinley pitched the 10th for his career-best sixth save.
“I think there are a lot of guys in the clubhouse who are playing really well and it kind of seemed like for a little bit we couldn't put it all together,” said Feltner, who has a combined 2.88 ERA over his last seven starts yet does not have a win to show for it. “But we seem to be firing on all cylinders right now.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
Rockies: RHP German Marquez (elbow) threw a 34-pitch bullpen session and is set to have another bullpen this weekend at San Diego before the club decides on a return or a minor league rehab assignment.
Angels: OF Mike Trout (knee) was diagnosed with a second torn meniscus that occurred during the rehab for his initial injury and will not return this season. Injuries have kept Trout from playing more than 82 games in three of the past four seasons. ... INF Luis Rengifo (wrist) was out of the lineup after aggravating an injury that had him on the injured list for almost three weeks in July.
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Rockies: LHP Austin Gomber (2-7, 4.79 ERA) was scheduled to start Friday at San Diego.
Angels: LHP Tyler Anderson (8-9, 2.96 ERA) was set to start Friday in the opener of a home series against the New York Mets.
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Colorado Rockies starting pitcher Ryan Feltner throws during the first inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels in Anaheim, Calif., Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)
Los Angeles Angels' Mickey Moniak (16) celebrates with teammate Brandon Drury after hitting a home run during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies in Anaheim, Calif., Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)
Los Angeles Angels' Logan O'Hoppe celebrates while running the bases after hitting a home run during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies in Anaheim, Calif., Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)
Colorado Rockies' Jacob Stallings, right, is hit by a pitch during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels in Anaheim, Calif., Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)
Colorado Rockies designated hitter Charlie Blackmon runs to first base during the third inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels in Anaheim, Calif., Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)
Colorado Rockies' Michael Toglia (4) celebrates in the dugout after hitting a home run during the second inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels in Anaheim, Calif., Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United States attacked Iran early Sunday morning over an Iranian strike on a vessel in the Strait of Hormuz that set the container ship ablaze and forced its crew to abandon it. Iran responded with attacks targeting several countries in the Middle East, including Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and Jordan.
The burst of fighting raised new questions about efforts to reach a permanent end to a war that began on Feb. 28. The strait, a key transit route for oil and natural gas, has become the key sticking point in negotiations, and repeated fighting over the past week has left negotiations in danger of collapse.
The U.S. military’s Central Command said it hit some 140 targets in Sunday’s strikes and went after missile and drone launch sites, ammunition dumps, communication equipment and other sites. It said the attacks, heavier than previous attacks in recent days, would weaken Iran’s ability to threaten civilian shipping.
“Iran made a poor choice. Now they pay,” U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wrote online.
Semiofficial Iranian news agencies reported that a navy officer was killed by the early morning attack. Iran retaliated by attacking nations in the region hosting U.S. military forces, while insisting it alone must control the strait and potentially charge vessels for traveling through it.
“The era of one-sided deals is OVER,” Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, the speaker of Iran’s parliament and a main negotiator, wrote Sunday. “We told you: keep your word or pay the price. Reality is knocking.”
Iran and the U.S. agreed to an interim ceasefire on June 17, beginning a 60-day period aimed at reaching a permanent end to the war, which U.S. President Donald Trump declared “over” three days ago.
Negotiations have been repeatedly disrupted by violence. The U.S. has launched three rounds of airstrikes targeting Iran in the last week over Iranian attacks on ships heading through the strait using a route seeking to avoid the Islamic Republic’s territorial waters.
About a fifth of all traded oil and natural gas passed through the strait before the war began. Iran’s grip on it during the war led to a global energy crisis, though oil prices have sharply dropped since wartime highs of $120 a barrel.
Missile alerts sounded across several Gulf Arab countries early Sunday morning.
Qatar's military said it intercepted incoming Iranian fire, with explosions heard in the neighboring United Arab Emirates. Three people, including a child, were wounded as a result of falling shrapnel from the interception of Iranian attacks, Qatar's Interior Ministry said, giving no further details on their conditions.
Meanwhile, missile alerts sounded in Bahrain, an island kingdom in the Persian Gulf home to the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet. Kuwait's military also said it was intercepting incoming fire.
The Omani state news agency said drones struck sites in an area that sits on the Strait of Hormuz and issued a shelter-in-place warning for residents in the region. The attack came after the two countries held talks on Saturday. Oman summoned the Iranian ambassador to protest the strikes.
Three Iranian missiles struck areas across Jordan, causing minor damage but no injuries, Jordan's state news agency reported.
Sirens also sounded in the United Arab Emirates, but the government said missiles did not cross into UAE borders. The UAE so far hasn't been targeted in the most recent round of Iranian attacks.
In the Strait of Hormuz attack, a Cyprus-flagged container ship was hit by Iran and suffered “significant engineroom damage,” the U.S. Central Command said early Sunday morning.
Oman's maritime authority said it rescued 23 crew members from the ship, but that one is still missing. India’s Ministry of External Affairs said the missing crew member is an Indian national and said it was working with Oman to locate him.
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center, overseen by the British military, said the ship had been hugging the shoreline of Oman. That's been the way ships have entered and exited the Persian Gulf while avoiding Iranian territorial waters.
Iran has sought to maintain control over transit through the strait during the 60-day ceasefire. Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said multiple vessels “disregarded our warnings" and ignored instructions to follow what it called an approved route. One of them “was struck by a warning shot and brought to a stop.”
Iran said that the strait would remain closed “until further notice” and said it would consider targeting “additional enemy bases in the region” if it faced more attacks.
Iranian state media reported U.S. strikes across the country, including southern Iran in the province closest to the Strait of Hormuz, and military sites in a province near Tehran.
The latest violence followed Iran and Oman’s foreign ministers meeting on Saturday to discuss the strait. The narrow strait sits in both Iran and Oman's territorial waters, but has long been considered an international waterway.
Oman said it and Iran agreed to continue discussing the Strait of Hormuz “at the technical and political levels.” However, Iran offered no statement about the strait being open to all — something sought by the Trump administration.
U.S. President Donald Trump suggested last week that the interim deal in the Iran war was “over.” But mediators, including Pakistan, Qatar and Egypt, have continued efforts to reach an agreement. A regional official involved in the mediation, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss those talks, said efforts to shore up the ceasefire were continuing Sunday.
Iran’s new supreme leader, still unseen since the war began, also vowed in his first statement since the funeral of his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that Iranians would avenge his killing in the war’s opening strikes on Feb. 28.
Such revenge “is the will of our nation and must certainly be carried out,” Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei said in a statement carried on state television.
Weissert reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Samy Magdy in Cairo and Melanie Lidman in Tel Aviv, Israel, contributed to this report.
A pro-government demonstrator wears an Iranian flag as she waves a religious flag in a gathering commemorating the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a square in Tehran, Saturday, July 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
A man holds a poster of the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a gathering commemorating him at a square in Tehran, Saturday, July 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
A pro-government demonstrator wears an Iranian flag as she holds a religious flag in a gathering commemorating the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a square in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, July 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Pro-government demonstrators wave Iranian and religious flags in a gathering commemorating the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a square in Tehran, Saturday, July 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
A pro-government demonstrator waves an Iranian flag in a gathering commemorating the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a square in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, July 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
