Trout homers for 8th time in 10 games, Angels beat M's 8-7

Sat, Sep 17, 2022
MLB News (AP)

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - Mike Trout homered for the eighth time in 10 games, and the Los Angeles Angels tripped up the Seattle Mariners' AL wild-card run with an 8-7 victory on Friday night that ended a four-game losing streak.

Trout homered in seven straight games, one shy of the big league record, before failing to hit one Tuesday and Wednesday at Cleveland. He put the Angels ahead 5-3 when he led off the fifth with his 36th home run of the season, tying an Angel Stadium record by homering in a fifth straight game.

Seattle (80-63) dropped one game behind Toronto (82-63) for the top AL wild card and remained a half-game in front of Tampa Bay (80-64), which is in the third and last wild-card spot.

Luis Rengifo went deep from each side of the plate in his first career multihomer game. He hit a solo drive in the third batting right-handed against Robbie Ray and a three-run shot batting lefty in the sixth off Matthew Festa that put the Angels ahead 8-4.

Rookie Julio Rodriguez hit his fifth leadoff homer, his 27th of the season. Carlos Santana went deep twice to raise his total to 17 and Ty France hit his 19th.

Michael Lorenzen (7-6) gave up three runs and four hits in five innings.

France hit a two-run homer in the seventh against Andrew Wantz, but with the bases loaded, Sam Haggerty grounded into an inning-ending double play against Jose Quijada.

Santana hit a two-run homer in the fourth and a solo drive with one out in the ninth against Ryan Tepera, who struck out Jesse Winker and retired J.P. Crawford on a flyout for his third save.

HOMERING AT BIG A

Trout tied the Anaheim Stadium record of five consecutive games with home runs shared by Bobby Bonds (1977), Matt Nokes (1987) and Jim Thome (1995-96).

TRAINERS ROOM

Mariners: 3B Eugenio Suarez departed in the middle of the fifth inning with an apparent right wrist injury sustained when he popped out to right field. ... OF Mitch Haniger (back) was out of the starting lineup for the third consecutive game but swung a bat pregame and did some running in the outfield with a chance he could return Saturday. ... INF/OF Dylan Moore (oblique) jwent 1 for 4 for Triple-A Tacoma in the start of a rehab assignment and might be able to return during this series. ... C Cal Raleigh (thumb) was injured sliding into first base this week and didn't play.

Angels: INF David Fletcher (hand), who has been reduced to bunting during recent at-bats, was out of the starting lineup and underwent a CT scan before entering the game in the sixth inning as a pinch runner.

UP NEXT

Angels RHP Shohei Ohtani (12-8, 2.55) enters Saturday with a 1.83 ERA over his last 15 starts and 93 2/3 innings. RHP George Kirby (7-3 2.98 ERA) will try for his third win in his fourth start against Los Angeles.

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