Angels rally to beat Phillies on Brandon Drury’s homer in ninth

Bryce Harper put the Philadelphia Phillies ahead in the eighth inning with his 300th home run, but Brandon Drury capped a three-run ninth with a tiebreaking, two-run homer that lifted the Angels to a 10-8 victory on Wednesday that prevented a three-game sweep.

In a game with four lead changes, the Angels led 7-6 before Harper’s two-run homer in the eighth against Matt Moore (4-1). Harper and Moore were 1-2 among Baseball America’s top prospects in 2012.

“I really wanted to do it at home in front of this fan base and this great city,” Harper said. “Hopefully, there’ll be 300 more.”

Harper’s homer, his 15th this season and 10th in August, came in the 30-year-old’s 1,481st game. He homered in three straight games for the second time this month. Moore was the 224th pitcher he went deep against.

“He certainly has a flair for the dramatic,” Phillies manager Rob Thomson said.

Pinch-hitter Mike Moustakas struck out leading off the ninth but reached on a wild pitch by Craig Kimbrel (7-5). Nolan Schanuel’s single put runners at the corners, giving him a team-record 10-game hitting streak at the start of his big league career. Luis Rengifo hit a sacrifice fly to tie the score.

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After Shohei Ohtani struck out, Drury lofted a fastball on the outside corner to the opposite field and over the wall in right for his 19th homer.

“It was crazy,” Drury said. “It felt like every time we scored they came back and scored too. But we kept fighting until the end and were able to pull out a win.”

Kimbrel blew a save for the third time in 24 chances. All three have come after the All-Star break.

“We thought with Kimbrel going out there it was pretty much over, but he just didn’t have it today,” Thomson said.

Carlos Estévez struck out two in a perfect ninth for his 29th save in 31 chances.

Ohtani was 1 for 4 with an RBI and was 5 for 13 with three RBIs in the series. Hunter Renfroe had three hits and four RBIs for the Angels (64-70).

Philadelphia (74-59), which leads the NL wild-card race, trailed 5-3 before Trea Turner’s three-run homer in the sixth against Reynaldo López. Renfroe put the Angels ahead 7-6 with a two-run single in the eighth against Seranthony Dominguez.