Trout becomes Angels’ career home run leader in victory

Mike Trout became the Angels’ career home run leader and Jo Adell celebrated with a game-ending, two-run single in the seventh, lifting Los Angeles to a 10-9 victory over the Houston Astros in the first game of a doubleheader on Saturday.

The Angels trailed by two going into the seventh. Trout and Shohei Ohtani drew walks before Justin Upton doubled to drive in Trout. One out later, Adell lined a two-run single to right off Enoli Paredes (1-2) for his first game-ending hit.

Trout hit career homer No. 300 in the third inning to pass Tim Salmon as the franchise leader. He also had a pair of doubles.

Adell’s solo shot in the fourth tied it at 4. Upton connected for a two-run drive in the fifth, tying it at 6.

Kyle Tucker homered and drove in three runs for the Astros, who lost in walk-off fashion for the second straight game.

Houston trailed 7-6 going into the seventh. Myles Straw led off with a double off Felix Peña (3-0) and scored on Michael Brantley’s single. With two outs and runners on second and third, Martin Maldonado hit a two-run single to right-center.

Tucker had three hits. His solo shot to right-center off Griffin Canning tied it at 1 in the second. After Yuli Gurriel’s two-run single in the third, Tucker extended the lead to 4-1 with a run-scoring infield single. He also had an RBI single in fifth to give Houston a 5-4 lead.

ORIOLES 6, YANKEES 1 >> New York Yankees ace Gerrit Cole had a dominating start go awry during a nightmarish sixth inning against the Baltimore Orioles, who got a slump-breaking homer from DJ Stewart before tacking on four unearned runs in the victory.

Cole (4-3) lost a third straight start for the first time since July 30-Aug. 10, 2018, with Houston. Prior to this skid, the right-hander had reeled off 20 straight regular-season victories.

Cole struck out eight of the first nine batters he faced, the exception a grounder to shortstop by Ryan Mountcastle. The only Oriole to reach over the first five innings was José Iglesias, who doubled to left-center on an 0-2 pitch with two outs in the fourth.

But the Yankees couldn’t mount any offense against Baltimore rookie Keegan Akin, so the game was scoreless heading into the bottom of the sixth.

Stewart was 0 for 17 this season before leading off with a drive over the right-field wall. A throwing error by third baseman Thairo Estrada preceded two walks and a two-run single by Mountcastle, and Rio Ruiz capped the uprising with a two-run double.

Cole finished with 10 strikeouts over six innings. He allowed four hits and just one earned run.

After Cole departed, Stewart homered again, in the seventh off Miguel Yajure for a 6-0 lead. It was the first multihomer game for Stewart, who will be seeing more playing time down the stretch after Anthony Santander was put on the injured list Saturday with a strained right oblique.

Cole was brilliant at the outset, but so was Akin in his fourth career appearance and second start. The 2016 secondround draft pick allowed no runs and three hits over 5 1/3 innings, striking out eight with four walks.

MARLINS 7, RAYS 3 >> Sandy Alcantara allowed one run over six innings and Corey Dickerson homered for the second consecutive game as Miami beat Tampa.

The Marlins improved to 15-8 away from home and are looking to finish the season with a winning road record for the first time since 2009 (4437). Miami had lost nine in a row to the Rays.

“It was good,” Miami manager Don Mattingly said. “We needed that. I thought Sandy was really good tonight. Gutted it out.”

Blake Snell (3-1) allowed five runs and six hits over five innings for the Rays, who are 21-5 over their last 26 games.

“I really do feel good,” Snell said. “I’ve got to be better, that’s the bottom line.”

Miami left fielder Harold Ramirez, who was reinstated from the COVID-19 injured list, before the game, strained his left hamstring running out a fifth-inning grounder. Halfway down the line he got hurt and slammed his helmet to the ground. After struggling to reach first base, he went down to the ground and stayed there until being taken away in a cart.

“It looked pretty bad,” Mattingly said. “He was definitely in some pain. Just saw him in the trainer’s room and he said he feels better. We’ll see what happens tomorrow, but it obviously didn’t look very good out there.”

Ramirez will have an MRI on Sunday.

Alcantara (2-1) gave up three hits, three walks and struck out eight.

TWINS 4, TIGERS 3 >> Miguel Sanó led Minnesota’s rally against the Detroit bullpen with a home run and the tying single in the ninth inning, before Byron Buxton beat out an infield single for the game-winning RBI to give the Twinst he victory.

Sanó — who homered in the seventh off Joe Jiménez — singled to drive in Josh Donaldson, who walked to start the ninth against José Cisnero (1-2). With two outs and two strikes, Buxton hit a slow grounder to shortstop Willi Castro. One of the fastest players in baseball, Buxton blazed down the firstbase line and just beat Castro’s throw, before the Twins spilled out onto the field in celebration. CARDINALS 4, CUBS 2, GAME 1 >> Adam Wainwright pitched six-hit ball into the seventh inning, leading the Cardinals to the win in the first game of a doubleheader.

Wainwright (4-0) allowed two runs, struck out six and walked one while improving to 4-0 for the first time in his career.