walked on four pitches.

Ward got a 1-and-0 fastball over the middle of the plate and he hammered it over the center field fence, for his second grand slam on this trip. He hit one in the ninth inning in San Diego in the first game of the trip.

It was the 14th homer of the season for Ward, including eight in the last 16 games.

Ward also has an extra-base hit in eight straight games, the first Angels player to do that since Tim Salmon in 2000.

“I feel like I can hit anything, to be honest,” Ward said. “The game is slow right now. And luck’s on my side as well.”

Washington said it’s a matter of Ward putting in the work to get his swing right, a process that included two days worth of live batting practice against an Angels minor league pitcher earlier this month. Since then, Ward has hit .318 with an OPS of 1.158.

“He’s found his stroke,” Washington said. “He seems to center the ball every time he goes up there, even when he makes outs. That’s exactly what we’ve been looking for. Took him a minute to get there, but we never gave up on him, and he never gave up on himself. So now he’s reaping the benefit of all the hard work.”

Ward had sole possession of the team lead in home runs for just a couple of minutes. Logan O’Hoppe, who had struck out with runners in scoring position in his previous two trips, then hit an opposite-field homer. It was O’Hoppe’s 14th of the season, and fourth in the last three games.

With their first lead of the game, the Angels had to get through nine more outs with a bullpen that has been worked hard during the winning streak.

Left-hander Reid Detmers pitched a scoreless seventh, thanks to a double play. Detmers has allowed one run in six innings since the three-game nightmare he endured a couple of weeks ago. Ryan Zeferjahn, pitching for the fifth time in seven days, got through a scoreless eighth with the help of a double play.

With closer Kenley Jansen getting another day off after pitching in four of the previous six games, the Angels gave themselves breathing room with three more runs in the top of the ninth. Connor Brodgon finished for the second game in a row.

Right-hander Hunter Strickland, who recorded four outs between Anderson and Detmers, got the victory.

“The bullpen was huge today because we were flat,” Washington said. “We didn’t have very many to choose from.”

It was a better finish than the start for Anderson, who was charged with five runs in 4 2/3 innings.

Besides the walks, Anderson was hit hard. He gave up a two-run homer to Brent Rooker in the first inning. In the fifth, he allowed another double to Rooker. Neto helped bail him out of further trouble by combining with Ward, the left fielder, on a pair of throws to nail a runner at the plate.

While it was a grind for Anderson, he said his teammates never lost their energy behind him.

“I was having a hard time out there, fighting the zone,” Anderson said. “And I feel like on defense, especially, it’s really easy to just kind of get flat footed and not necessarily be negative, but just take your energy away. And I just felt like the whole time I was out there grinding, our defenders were so positive behind me too. And just like, picking me up, picking me up, picking me up, like in between innings. Maybe it didn’t show. Didn’t work out great for me, but it means a lot for pitchers, for us, for guys like that to be locked in with you. They’re living and dying with you. And then I think it means it leads to good at-bats after that. Guys never giving up. It was awesome to see.”