Los Angeles Angels' Shohei Ohtani becomes third Japanese-born player to hit at least 100 home runs

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The Los Angeles Angels needed to get over a bad loss in the opener of the day-night game.

Ohtani hit his 100th career home run, Ward hit a grand slam and the Angels salvaged a split by beating the Oakland A's 9-1 in the night game.

Luis Barrera hit a walk-off three-run shot for his first career home run, as the A's won the opener 4-3.

Angels manager Joe Maddon gave his team a lot of credit for the response in Game 2. I thought we did it well.

In the second game, the Angels scored five runs in the second and Ward hit his second slam of the season.

Ohtani followed Mike Trout's double with a home run to make it 7-1.

Ohtani said through an interpreter that one hundred is a big number. It is early in the season.

Ohtani is the third Japanese-born player with at least 100 homers in the majors, trailing only Hideki Matsui and Ichiro Suzuki. Ohtani joined Babe Ruth as the only players with at least 100 home runs and at least 250 strikeouts as a pitcher.

Maddon said it was not surprising that he did it every day. I don't want to say we're expecting it, but we are. That is who he is right now. He is going to add on to that. You are going to hear more names. He is a baseball player. He loves to play.

Michael Lorenzen gave up one run and five hits in seven frames.

Oller, who was called up from the minor leaguers as the 27th man for the second game, allowed eight runs in five frames.