ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Jose Siri hit a game-winning single in the 10th inning, Mike Trout and Logan O’Hoppe homered, and the Los Angeles Angels beat the Houston Astros 3-2 on Wednesday night.
Angels starter Reid Detmers retired his first 15 batters before Shay Whitcomb homered leading off the sixth. Chase Silseth replaced Detmers to begin the eighth and gave up a leadoff homer to Cam Smith that tied it 2-all.
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Houston Astros Cam Smith celebrates his game-tying solo home run against the Los Angeles Angels during the eighth inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, June 10, 2026, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Scott Strazzante)
Houston Astros Yordan Alvarez (44) is tagged out by Los Angeles Angels catcher Logan O'Hoppe at home plate during the ninth inning of a baseball game Wednesday, June 10, 2026, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Scott Strazzante)
Los Angeles Angels Mike Trout (27) is greeted at home plate by Wade Meckler (53) after Trout's solo home run against the Houston Astros during the first inning of a baseball game Wednesday, June 10, 2026, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Scott Strazzante)
Los Angeles Angels Jose Siri celebrates with teammates after his game-winning single against the Houston Astros during the tenth inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, June 10, 2026, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Scott Strazzante)
Los Angeles Angels Jose Siri celebrates his game-winning single against the Houston Astros during the 10th inning of a baseball game Wednesday, June 10, 2026, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Scott Strazzante)
Houston nearly took the lead in the ninth. Yordan Alvarez singled with two outs and Christian Walker followed with a double that appeared to score Alvarez. But the Angels challenged the safe call at home plate and it was overturned following a replay review.
Bryan Abreu (2-3) came on for the Astros in the 10th and pinch-hitter Donovan Walton hit a leadoff single that moved automatic runner Nick Madrigal from second base to third. Siri, facing one of his former teams, then hit an 0-2 pitch to left field to drive in Madrigal.
Ryan Zeferjahn (3-3) worked a scoreless inning for the win.
Trout launched his 15th homer to open the scoring in the first, and O'Hoppe's drive with two outs in the fifth made it 2-0.
Peter Lambert allowed two runs and five hits with six strikeouts in 6 1/3 innings for Houston.
Detmers permitted only one hit over seven innings. He struck out nine and walked none. The left-hander is third in the American League with 97 strikeouts and has given up three or fewer earned runs in eight of his last nine starts.
Alvarez extended his on-base streak to 17 games.
Houston begins a three-game series at Kansas City on Friday night.
Los Angeles hosts Tampa Bay in the opener of a three-game set Friday.
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Houston Astros Cam Smith celebrates his game-tying solo home run against the Los Angeles Angels during the eighth inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, June 10, 2026, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Scott Strazzante)
Houston Astros Yordan Alvarez (44) is tagged out by Los Angeles Angels catcher Logan O'Hoppe at home plate during the ninth inning of a baseball game Wednesday, June 10, 2026, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Scott Strazzante)
Los Angeles Angels Mike Trout (27) is greeted at home plate by Wade Meckler (53) after Trout's solo home run against the Houston Astros during the first inning of a baseball game Wednesday, June 10, 2026, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Scott Strazzante)
Los Angeles Angels Jose Siri celebrates with teammates after his game-winning single against the Houston Astros during the tenth inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, June 10, 2026, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Scott Strazzante)
Los Angeles Angels Jose Siri celebrates his game-winning single against the Houston Astros during the 10th inning of a baseball game Wednesday, June 10, 2026, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Scott Strazzante)
BERLIN (AP) — Gunther von Hagens, the German anatomist who generated both fascination and revulsion around the globe with his “Body Worlds” exhibits of preserved human corpses, has died. He was 81.
Von Hagens' family and the Institute for Plastination, which he founded, said he died on Friday. A statement they issued on Monday gave no further details. Von Hagens had announced in 2010 that he was living with Parkinson’s disease.
Von Hagens trod a fine line between science, entertainment and commerce with his touring exhibits, as well as headline-grabbing actions such as a public autopsy.
At the heart of von Hagens’ work was the so-called plastination process — replacing body fluids with liquid plastic that then hardens. That technique, which he started developing in the 1970s, prevented decay, left tissues intact and allowed him to display preserved corpses and their inner organs.
The resulting exhibition, “Body Worlds,” first went on show in Japan in 1995.
Two years later, the collection of partly skinless corpses went on display in von Hagens’ homeland, overcoming an attempt by local church leaders to block its opening on the grounds that it was disrespectful. Von Hagens said he was helping viewers understand how their bodies work.
The anatomist “is forced in his daily work to reject the taboos and convictions that people have about death and the dead,” von Hagens said of his work.
“I touch here a taboo, which is our body, and nothing is so near as our body is to us,” he said.
The shows used the corpses of people who agreed to donate their bodies for plastination. Critics argued that von Hagens bordered on sensationalism with his works, which included a corpse riding a plastinated horse, and a pregnant woman with an eight-month-old fetus inside.
Von Hagens “plays with the corpses like a child plays with dolls,” the Rev. Ernst Pulsfort, spiritual rector of Berlin’s Catholic Academy, said when the show first opened in the German capital in 2001. He argued that it catered to a “public lust for sensation.”
During a “Body Worlds” show in London in 2002, the anatomist — wearing, as ever, his trademark black fedora — conducted Britain’s first public autopsy in 170 years before a sellout crowd of hundreds, defying government warnings that it might be illegal.
Von Hagens declared it a “huge success.” The British Medical Association’s head of ethics, Dr. Michael Wilkes, said it was “degrading and disrespectful.”
The “Body Worlds” exhibits were shown in several American cities after making their U.S. debut in Los Angeles in 2004.
Von Hagens' “Plastinarium,” where bodies are prepared, opened in the eastern German town of Guben in 2006.
The anatomist was born Gunther Liebchen on Jan. 10, 1945, in what is now western Poland.
He went to medical school in Jena in East Germany, but increasingly questioned the communist system and made a failed attempt to flee to the West. He was detained before West Germany bought his freedom in 1970, a regular practice at the time.
He continued his medical studies at the University of Luebeck and, in the 1970s, began working at Heidelberg University’s pathology and anatomy institute. He married a former classmate, Cornelia von Hagens, and took her surname.
His second wife, Angelina Whalley, heads his Heidelberg-based Institute for Plastination and curates his exhibitions, and he had three children from his first marriage.
Monday's statement said it was von Hagens' wish that his body be made available for plastination and “his family will respect and carry out this wish.”
FILE - Gunther von Hagen poses in front of the sculpture 'Rearing Horse with Rider' during the launch of Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds museum in London, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, file)
FILE - German Gunther von Hagens poses with a display from "Body Worlds" anatomy exhibit that puts real human specimens on show in Dallas, Texas, Jan. 23, 2007. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)
FILE - Doctor Gunther von Hagens, anatomist, inventor of and creator of Body Worlds The Original Exhibitions of Real Human Bodies known as Germany's 'Dr Death' , is seen in front of one of his works in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, June 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta, file)
