{"id":344611,"date":"2026-06-03T11:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T11:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/344611\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T11:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T11:17:10","slug":"rumfield-gets-gift-homer-when-flyball-bounces-off-adells-head-as-rockies-top-angels-8-2-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/344611\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumfield gets gift homer when flyball bounces off Adell’s head as Rockies top Angels 8-2"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) \u2014 TJ Rumfield got a gift when his long flyball bounced off Jo Adell\u2019s head for a most unusual home run,<\/a> and the Colorado Rockies defeated the Los Angeles Angels 8-2 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Willi Castro hit a three-run homer in the fourth inning and Hunter Goodman had a solo shot in the second. Tomoyuki Sugano (5-4) allowed two runs in five innings for the Rockies, who have won four of five after losing eight of nine.<\/p>\n

Castro and Rumfield hit back-to-back homers in the fourth off starter Grayson Rodriguez (2-2), who gave up eight runs, eight hits and three walks in 3 2\/3 innings. <\/p>\n

With the Rockies holding a 7-0 lead, Rumfield sent a drive to deep right-center, where the ball grazed the outside of Adell\u2019s glove before hitting his head and bounding over the wall.<\/p>\n

There was brief confusion on the field when the ball caromed back into the outfield. Rumfield stopped at second base, initially unsure of the ruling, before proceeding around the bases.<\/p>\n

Goodman hit his 15th homer to left field in the second. He has homered in back-to-back games. Ezequiel Tovar had a sacrifice fly in the inning, and Edouard Julien added an RBI single that made it 3-0.<\/p>\n

Castro\u2019s three-run homer to right made it 7-0 in a five-run fourth.<\/p>\n

Wade Meckler had a two-run double for the Angels in the fifth before a trio of Rockies relievers combined for four scoreless innings.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Rockies RHP Michael Lorenzen (2-7, 7.22 ERA) faces RHP Walbert Ure\u00f1a (2-4, 2.44) in the series finale Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) \u2014 TJ Rumfield got a gift when his long flyball bounced off Jo Adell\u2019s head…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,2135,7,559,551,3673,115881,115412,36470,101546,14506,2866,130103,1334,5443,127,72637,75589],"class_list":["post-344611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-baseball","tag-california","tag-co-state-wire","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-edouard-julien","tag-ezequiel-tovar","tag-grayson-rodriguez","tag-hunter-goodman","tag-jo-adell","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-michael-lorenzen","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-sports","tag-wade-meckler","tag-willi-castro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}