Mike Trout had two strokes, including the 395th Home Run in his career, and led four points to conduct the Los Angeles Angels to a 10-5 victory on the Diamond cuts in Arizona on Saturday evening in Anaheim, California.
Nolan Schanuel went 3-in-4 with a walk and a product point, Luis Rengifo and Zach Neto each had two strokes and a point produced and Travis d’Arnaud added two strokes and two points scored for Los Angeles, who finished with a summit of 15 strokes.
All-Star Yusei Kikuchi (4-6) won the victory, granting three points over six strokes in 5 2/3 heats. He walked one and withdrew five and left a striker after taking a return of 105 mph by Josh Naylor from his left shoulder. Kikuchi then abandoned a single to Randal Grichuk before leaving. He launched 93 throws, 67 for strikes.
Eugenio Suarez struck two circuits and James McCann had two strokes for Arizona, who lost his third consecutive match and for the eighth time in his last 11 games.
Zac Gallen (7-10) suffered the defeat, granting six points in eight strokes in five rounds. It was the seventh time this season that Gallen has granted at least five points in a match.
Los Angeles took an advance of 1-0 during the first on the choice of a defender field by Taylor Ward, leading to Neto, who had chosen.
Arizona took an advance of 2-1 on Solo Homers by Suarez in the second and fourth rounds. He scored the fourth multi-horror match of the season for Suarez, who struck four circuits in a competition on April 26 against Atlanta.
The angels took an advance of 4-2 at the bottom of the fourth on a double RBI by Jo Adell, a sacrificial fly by Jorge Soler and a simple RBI from Rengifo. Trout made 6-2 a round later with his 17th circuit on the right, leading to Schanuel, who had chosen.
The Arizona closed at 6-5 on a single RBI of Grichuk in the sixth and a single RBI by McCann and a base loaded with Alek Thomas in the eighth. But the Angels responded with four points from the lifter Juan Morillo at the bottom of the eighth, highlighted by a single two points by Trout and RBI in Simple of Neto and Schanuel, to seal the victory.
– Field level media
