ANAHEIM (Interstat) — J.T. Ginn struck out 10 over eight innings but the Athletics bullpen could not hold a 1-0 lead in the ninth, as the Los Angeles Angels rallied for a 2-1 victory Monday night at Angel Stadium of Anaheim before 25,776 fans in a game that lasted 2 hours, 21 minutes.

The Athletics, who entered the game with a 23-23 record after losing three of four to the San Francisco Giants over the weekend, fell to 23-24. The Angels improved to 17-31, snapping a six-game losing streak that included a three-game sweep by the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Ginn, who took the loss and fell to 2-2, allowed only two hits and two earned runs while walking none and striking out 10. He retired 12 of the first 13 batters he faced and did not allow a runner past first base until the fifth inning, when Yoán Moncada drew a two-out walk. Ginn stranded Moncada by striking out Jo Adell.

The Athletics broke a scoreless tie in the top of the ninth inning. Jeff McNeil flied out to right field to open the inning, but Zack Gelof singled up the middle off Angels reliever Ryan Zeferjahn. Lawrence Butler, pinch-hitting for Henry Bolte, lined a single to center field that scored Gelof from first base, giving a 1-0 lead. Carlos Cortes walked and Shea Langeliers also walked to load the bases with one out. Zeferjahn was replaced by Chase Silseth, who induced a ground-ball double play from Nick Kurtz to end the inning.

The Angels answered in the bottom of the ninth against Ginn, who had been in complete control. Adam Frazier led off with a sharp single to center field. Zach Neto then hit a 1-0 pitch over the center-field wall for a two-run home run, his eighth of the season, scoring Frazier and Jose Siri, who had entered the game as a pinch runner. Neto’s homer gave the Angels a 2-1 lead and made a winner of Silseth, who pitched two-thirds of an inning, allowing no hits and no runs to improve to 1-0.

Walbert Ureña was the top star for the Angels, delivering six scoreless innings in his start. He allowed four hits, struck out four and walked four, lowering his ERA to 2.25 over his past two starts. Ureña had previously allowed two earned runs over five innings in a loss at Cleveland on May 12, then earned a win against the Chicago White Sox on May 6 with six innings of one-run ball.

Sam Bachman pitched two scoreless innings in relief for the Angels, allowing one hit and striking out two. Zeferjahn was charged with the blown save, allowing two hits and one earned run in one-third of an inning.

For the Athletics, Ginn was the story through eight innings. He allowed only two hits and did not issue a walk, striking out 10 on 75 pitches. The Angels had only two hits in the game – Frazier’s ninth-inning single and Neto’s home run. Mike Trout went 0 for 3 with a popout and two groundouts. Josh Lowe was 0 for 3 with a strikeout. Yoán Moncada was 0 for 2 with a walk and a strikeout.

Oakland’s offense managed seven hits but stranded 10 runners. Nick Kurtz doubled in the fifth inning but was left on base. Carlos Cortes walked three times and scored on Butler’s single. Shea Langeliers had a single and a walk. Butler, the late-inning replacement, drove in the Athletics’ only run.

The game was a pitchers’ duel through the first eight innings. Ureña worked out of a jam in the fourth when the Athletics loaded the bases on a single, a fielder’s choice and a hit by pitch, but Darell Hernaiz grounded into a forceout to end the inning. Ginn consistently worked ahead, striking out the side in the third inning – Josh Lowe, Logan O’Hoppe and Adam Frazier – and striking out two in the seventh.

The Athletics came into the game having lost six of their last nine games, while the Angels had lost nine of their last 10. The series continues Tuesday night with the second of a three-game set at Angel Stadium.

Interstat’s game simulator had projected a final score of Athletics 5, Angels 3, and its ELO system gave the Athletics a 56.30 percent probability to win. entered as a pregame favorite with a spread of minus-1.5. The total score of three runs went over the over-under line of 8.5.