The Angels can’t get over the hump.

Despite having one-run leads in the seventh and ninth innings, the Angels lost, 7-4, to the Washington Nationals in 11 innings on Sunday.

The Angels (41-42) have had three chances to get over .500 in the past two months, and they’ve lost all three times. They haven’t been over .500 since they were 11-10.

Connor Brogdon, the Angels’ seventh pitcher of the day, gave up hits to three of the first four batters he faced in the 11th, on the way to allowing three runs.

This was an ugly game at times, with defensive mistakes leading to the Nationals scoring the tying runs in the seventh and ninth innings.

The Angels also failed to convert on their scoring opportunities when they had chances to increase the lead or win the game.

The Angels had the leadoff man on in the eighth and ninth, and they had the automatic runner at second in the 10th and 11th, and they couldn’t get any of those runners home.

Taylor Ward, who had three doubles in the game, looked at three consecutive strikes with the winning run at second in the 10th.

But the Angels could have won it before all of that if not for two crushing mistakes in the field.

The Angels had a 3-2 lead with two outs in the seventh when Ryan Zeferjahn walked No. 9 hitter Jacob Young after getting ahead of him, 0-and-2. Zeferjahn then got CJ Abrams to hit a routine pop-up in shallow center, but shortstop Kevin Newman lost it in the sun. The ball dropped and Young scored.

After the Angels retook the lead in the bottom of the eighth, Daylen Lile hit a bouncer up the first base line off closer Kenley Jansen and first baseman Nolan Schanuel let it get past him, for what was ruled a double. That led to the tying run on Young’s single. It was the first blown save of the season for Jansen.

— Jeff Fletcher

REDS STUN PADRES

Cincinnati’s Will Benson hit a bases-loaded single off San Diego closer Robert Suarez in the bottom of the ninth inning Sunday to lift the Reds to a 3-2 victory.

Cincinnati’s Elly De La Cruz led off the ninth with an infield single that originally was scored an error by Padres third baseman Tyler Wade.

De La Cruz scored the tying run on a one-out RBI single by Spencer Steer, and after Jose Trevino singled to load the bases, Benson ripped a single down the right-field line for his third hit of the game to score Gavin Lux and lift the Reds to the victory in the rubber match of the three-game series.

It was the third walk-off win of the year for the Reds and the second of their six-game homestand.

It was just the third blown save of the season for Suarez (2-4), who entered the game as MLB’s save leader with 23.

De La Cruz tied the game in the sixth inning with an RBI single, but San Diego reclaimed the lead in the seventh on Jose Iglesias’ RBI fielder’s choice with the bases loaded.

It was a rare late-inning comeback for the Reds, who came into the game with a 1-34 record when trailing after seven innings.

OHTANI ‘FEELING FINE’

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said Shohei Ohtani was “feeling fine” after his first multi-inning outing as a pitcher on Saturday.

“There was a lot of effort yesterday so we’ll see how he does today,” Roberts said of Ohtani who threw three pitches at 100 mph or higher.

Ohtani went 4 for 8 with a double, triple and home run as a hitter on his first two pitching days. But he was 0 for 4 with three strikeouts Saturday.

“Just looking back on today, on the pitching side, it went pretty well. I didn’t give up any hits at least in my mind,” Ohtani said through his interpreter after Saturday’s game. “But on the hitting side, I didn’t really have a good approach. So on the days when I do pitch and hit, I compartmentalize it. That’s how I approach the days I pitch and hit.”

— Bill Plunkett

BUEHLER STRUGGLES

Addison Barger and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. homered on consecutive pitches from Walker Buehler in the first inning and Toronto capitalized on the right-hander’s wildness to add two runs in the fourth in a 5-3 win over the Boston Red Sox on Sunday.

Buehler (5-6) is guaranteed $21.05 million in a one-year free agent contract signed during the offseason after starring for the Dodgers last fall. He is 1-4 with a 7.80 ERA in his last six starts.