The Angels lost 9-6 to the Tampa Bay Rays on Friday night at Angel Stadium, despite Shohei Ohtani’s grand slam, his 43rd home run of the season, and the team’s first triple play since 1997.

Ohtani smashed his second career grand slam, and first since May of 2022 when he did so against the Rays, to give the Angels a 5-1 lead in the second inning. He went two for five in the game.

Nolan Schanuel, a first baseman drafted by the Angels in the first round, is the fastest player to reach the major leagues, making his debut 40 days after being picked.After Schanuel’s first day on the field, manager Phil Nevin remarked, “That was a nice first day for him,” praising his alertness and instincts. “He had some fantastic at-bats. It’s a little bit of an out-of-body experience, isn’t it?” I said after he returned in from his first one.’I kept checking down to make sure I was in the batter’s box,’ he added.

After walking and scoring on Ohtani’s grand slam, Schanuel’s already strange position became much more out of this world. In recalling his first home run in the major leagues, he blushed.

That was incredible. “It was crаzy to see a ball come off Shohei’s bat with that kind of force,” Schanuel said. It was much more exciting to see it from the stands above my head.

Tyler Anderson (5-5, Angels), a lefty, allowed five runs on six hits in four innings while walking two and striking out three. Josh Lowe’s two-run double and Rene Pinto’s RBI single helped the Rays put up three runs in the fourth.

Anderson felt his performance was subpar and blamed his lack of leadership.

Dominic Leone threw a scoreless sixth inning while José Soriano did well in relief, allowing just one Һit and striking out one batter in an inning of work.

Against Reynaldo López in the sixth, Harold Ramirez drove in two runs with a single, putting the Rays ahead, 6-5. Schanuel Һit on a line drive to left field, stole second, and scored on a double by Brandon Drury to make the score 6-6 in the bottom of the inning.

Before Carlos Estévez came in to throw, Matt Moore threw a scoreless inning. The eighth triple play in Angels history was completed by Luis Rengifo, Drury, Schanuel, and O’Hoppe in the bottom of the ninth inning.

“Drury made a good play,” Schanuel remarked. After he threw it to me, [Yandy Diaz] immediately ran. And I simply glanced in that direction, flipped over, and threw accurately. In that situation, it was O’Hoppe’s good tag that rescued me.

Getting that one was “a great instinctive play by Nolan,” as Nevin put it.

Rengifo took a leadoff walk, but then Randal Grichuk grounded out, Shohei Ohtani struck out, and Brandon Drury grounded out, sending the game to extra innings. After that, Estévez allowed a pair of RBI singles, then Aaron Loup allowed a similar one.

Nevin reflected, “[Estévez] was my best chance in the 10th inning.” “It goes higher than I’d like, despite the low pitch count. I fervently hoped never to see forty. After getting a big strikeout beforehand, I knew it was best to leave Lowe in because of where we were in the game in relation to their batters.

Although Estévez reports no issues with his health, he does intend to review his form. “Fastballs, slider, everything,” he proclaimed. Simply put, “Don’t be so dispersed with it; get more in a line.”

After missing 103 games with a labrum tear in his left shoulder, catcher Logan O’Hoppe has returned to the lineup. He caught the entire game despite not having done so throughout his rehabilitation and going hitless.

The Angels’ current record of 60-63 is tied with their lowest of the year. They are 12.5 games behind the leading team in the American League West, Texas, and 7.1 games behind the next best team for a wild card position in the AL.