Angels score 3 in the 10th inning and 3 in the 11th for a 9-7 victory over the Cardinals

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Kyren Paris hit a tiebreaking single in the 11th inning, Yoan Moncada followed with a two-run double and the Los Angeles Angels beat the St. Louis Cardinals 9-7 on Tuesday night.

The game was tied at 3 after nine innings before each team scored three runs in the 10th — and the Angels added three in the 11th. Victor Scott II had an RBI single in the bottom half, but Ryan Zeferjahn got two outs for his first career save.

Zeferjahn struck out Willson Contreras with a runner aboard to end it as the Angels outlasted St. Louis in extra innings for the second consecutive night.

Ryan Johnson (1-0) earned his first major league win.

Los Angeles first baseman Nolan Schanuel hit a two-run triple in the 10th inning to make up for his throwing error in the eighth. Schanuel lined a shot to left-center just past Scott and it rolled to the wall, scoring Paris and Moncada for a 5-3 lead. Schanuel scored on Jo Adell's single.

Cardinals pinch-hitter Luken Baker answered with a two-run double to make it 6-5. Nolan Arenado tied it with an RBI single.

Chris Roycroft (0-1) allowed three runs — two earned — in one inning for St. Louis.

Jordan Walker had two hits and two RBIs for the Cardinals. He hit a 419-foot homer to the batter’s eye in center.

The Cardinals tied it 3-all on an error in the eighth. Arenado sent a roller to the right side that Schanuel fielded and threw low past a covering Ben Joyce into the Angels dugout as Lars Nootbaar scored from third.

Los Angeles is 4-1 for the first time since 2021 and three games above .500 for the first time since Aug. 2, 2023 (56-53).

Cardinals RHP Sonny Gray (1-0, 3.60 ERA) faces Angles LHP Yusei Kikuchi (0-1, 4.50) on Wednesday to close the three-game series.

St. Louis Cardinals' Nolan Arenado tosses his bat in the after striking out swinging during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Los Angeles Angels second baseman Luis Rengifo (2) throws out St. Louis Cardinals' Brendan Donovan at first during the eighth inning of a baseball game Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Los Angeles Angels' Nolan Schanuel follows through on a two-run triple during the 10th inning of a baseball game against the St. Louis Cardinals Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

St. Louis Cardinals' Jordan Walker walks back to the dugout after flying out during the 10th inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

St. Louis Cardinals' Masyn Winn removes his batting gloves after grounding out to end the during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Los Angeles Angels' Yoan Moncada (5) is congratulated by teammate Mike Trout (27) after scoring on a two-run triple by Nolan Schanuel during the 10th inning of a baseball game against the St. Louis Cardinals Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Los Angeles Angels' Travis d'Arnaud, left, and teammate Ryan Zeferjahn celebrate a 9-7 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals in a baseball game Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Los Angeles Angels' Luis Rengifo (2) and Mike Trout celebrate a 9-7 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals in a baseball game Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Los Angeles Angels' Kyren Paris celebrates after hitting an RBI single during the 11th inning of a baseball game against the St. Louis Cardinals Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado comes to the White House on Thursday to discuss her country's future with President Donald Trump even after he publicly dismissed her credibility to take over after an audacious U.S. military raid captured then-President Nicolás Maduro.

Trump has raised doubts about his stated commitment to backing democratic rule in Venezuela. His administration has signaled its willingness to work with acting President Delcy Rodríguez, who was Maduro’s vice president and, along with others in the deposed leader’s inner circle, remains in charge of day-to-day governmental operations.

In endorsing Rodríguez so far, Trump has sidelined Machado, who has long been a face of resistance in Venezuela and sought to cultivate relationships with Trump and key administration voices like Secretary of State Marco Rubio among the American right wing in a gamble to ally herself with the U.S. government.

The White House says Machado sought the face-to-face meeting with Trump without setting expectations for what would occur. Her party is widely believed to have won 2024 elections rejected by Maduro. Machado previously offered to share with Trump the Nobel Peace Prize she won last year, an honor he has coveted.

Machado plans to have a meeting at the Senate following her lunch with Trump, who has called her “a nice woman” while indicating they might not touch on major issues in their talks Thursday.

Her Washington swing began after U.S. forces in the Caribbean Sea seized another sanctioned oil tanker that the Trump administration says had ties to Venezuela. It is part of a broader U.S. effort to take control of the South American country’s oil after U.S. forces seized Maduro and his wife at a heavily guarded compound in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas and brought them to New York to stand trial on drug trafficking charges.

The White House says Venezuela has been fully cooperating with the Trump administration since Maduro’s ouster.

Rodríguez, the acting president, herself has adopted a less strident position toward Trump and his “America First” policies toward the Western Hemisphere, saying she plans to continue releasing prisoners detained under Maduro — a move thought to have been made at the behest of the Trump administration. Venezuela released several Americans this week.

Trump, a Republican, said Wednesday that he had a “great conversation” with Rodríguez, their first since Maduro was ousted.

“We had a call, a long call. We discussed a lot of things,” Trump said during an Oval Office bill signing. “And I think we’re getting along very well with Venezuela.”

Even before indicating the willingness to work with Venezuela's interim government, Trump was quick to snub Machado. Just hours after Maduro's capture, Trump said of Machado that “it would be very tough for her to be the leader. She doesn’t have the support within or the respect within the country.”

Machado has steered a careful course to avoid offending Trump, notably after winning last year’s Nobel Peace Prize, which Trump wanted to win himself. She has since thanked Trump. Her offer to share the peace prize with him was rejected by the Nobel Institute.

Machado’s whereabouts have been largely unknown since she went into hiding early last year after being briefly detained in Caracas. She briefly reappeared in Oslo, Norway, in December after her daughter received the Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf.

The industrial engineer and daughter of a steel magnate began challenging the ruling party in 2004, when the nongovernmental organization she co-founded, Súmate, promoted a referendum to recall then-President Hugo Chávez. The initiative failed, and Machado and other Súmate executives were charged with conspiracy.

A year later, she drew the anger of Chávez and his allies again for traveling to Washington to meet President George W. Bush. A photo showing her shaking hands with Bush in the Oval Office lives in the collective memory. Chávez considered Bush an adversary.

Almost two decades later, she marshaled millions of Venezuelans to reject Chávez’s successor, Maduro, for another term in the 2024 election. But ruling party-loyal electoral authorities declared him the winner despite ample credible evidence to the contrary. Ensuing anti-government protests ended in a brutal crackdown by state security forces.

Garcia Cano reported from Caracas, Venezuela, and Janetsky from Mexico City. AP Diplomatic Writer Matthew Lee in Washington contributed to this report.

FILE - U.S. President George Bush, right, meets with Maria Corina Machado, executive director of Sumate, a non-governmental organization that defends Venezuelan citizens' political rights, in the Oval Office of the White House, Washington, May 31, 2005. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

FILE - Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado gestures to supporters during a protest against President Nicolas Maduro the day before his inauguration for a third term, in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, file)