Kyle Hendricks scattered 4 hits over seven shutout innings and Chris Taylor and Yoan Moncada every hit three-run homers to guide the Los Angeles Angels to a 12-2 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday evening in Anaheim, Calif.
Hendricks (7-9) walked one and struck out six whereas snapping a seven-start winless streak courting again to a 4-1 victory over Seattle on July 27. He left after throwing 80 pitches, 58 for strikes.
Moncada went 2-for-4 with a stroll, three RBIs and three runs scored and Taylor completed 2-for-5 with 4 RBIs for the Angels, who completed with 17 hits and a season excessive in runs scored. Oswald Peraza had three hits, Luis Rengifo had two hits and three RBIs, Mike Trout had two hits and a stroll and scored 3 times and Taylor Ward stole house and scored twice for Los Angeles (68-77), which snapped a six-game dropping streak to the Twins.
Ryan Fitzgerald, an infielder who got here in to pitch a scoreless eighth, homered, Byron Buxton had two hits and stole a base and Austin Martin additionally had two hits and scored a run for Minnesota (64-81). Zebby Matthews (4-5) suffered the loss, permitting 5 runs on seven hits in 4 2/3 innings.
Los Angeles took a 3-0 lead within the first on a two-run, bases-loaded single by Rengifo. That was adopted by a double-steal with Rengifo going to second and Ward stealing house.
The Angels prolonged the result in 5-0 within the fifth on RBI singles by Taylor and Rengifo after which broke the sport open with 4 extra runs within the sixth, together with a three-run homer to middle by Taylor, to make it 9-0. The 413-foot drive to dead-center was Taylor’s second house run of the season.
Moncada belted his twelfth homer within the seventh, a three-run shot off reliever Thomas Hatch, to increase the result in 12-0.
Minnesota broke up the shutout within the ninth on Fitzgerald’s second house run of the season, a two-run drive simply inside the precise subject foul pole, driving in Martin, who had singled.
–Subject Degree Media
