{"id":648132,"date":"2026-03-28T06:05:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T06:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/648132\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T06:05:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T06:05:21","slug":"mike-trout-homers-again-to-help-propel-angels-to-win-over-astros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/648132\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Trout homers again to help propel Angels to win over Astros"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

HOUSTON\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Mike Trout<\/a>, Josh Lowe<\/a> and Zach Neto<\/a> hit home runs and the Angels<\/a> beat the Houston Astros 6-2<\/a> on Friday night.<\/p>\n

In his second game with the Angels, Lowe broke a 1-1 tie in the second when he hit a first-pitch fastball from Mike Burrows for a three-run homer. Lowe was acquired by the Angels in a trade from the Tampa Bay Rays on Jan. 16.<\/p>\n

Trout\u2019s fifth inning solo home run was part of a three-hit game, and it marks the first time in his 16-year major league career that he\u2019s gone deep in his first two games of a season.<\/p>\n

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Neto added a solo shot leading off the ninth inning for his second extra base hit of the night.<\/p>\n

The long balls were in support of an Angels staff led by Yusei Kikuchi<\/a>, who yielded two runs on eight hits over 4\u2153 innings. The bullpen quartet of Chase Silseth, Ryan Zeferjahn (1-0), Sam Bachman and Jordan Romano combined for 4\u2154 scoreless innings.<\/p>\n

Burrows (0-1), who was making his Astros debut after he was traded from the Pittsburgh Pirates on Dec. 19, surrendered five runs on nine hits over 5\u2154 innings. He struck out six.<\/p>\n

Yordan Alvarez hit a home run for the Astros, while Carlos Correa went two for three with a walk.<\/p>\n

Jeremy Pe\u00f1a, who missed Thursday\u2019s season opener<\/a>, had two hits, a stolen base and scored a run.<\/p>\n

The Angels are off to a 2-0 start for the first time since 2007. The Astros have started 0-2 for the second time in three seasons under manager Joe Espada.<\/p>\n

Up next: Astros RHP Cristian Javier faces Angels LHP Reid Detmers when the series continues Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Mike Trout, Josh Lowe and Zach Neto hit home runs and the Angels beat the Houston Astros 6-2…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2389],"tags":[291,42,5,83080,1860,8655,3930,2335,139,54,3211,3654,1397,603,4,1479,83081,16041,68,2052],"class_list":["post-648132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston-astros","tag-angels","tag-astros","tag-baseball","tag-bullpen-quartet","tag-chase-silseth","tag-friday-night","tag-hit","tag-home-run","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros","tag-houstonastros","tag-innings","tag-josh-lowe","tag-mike-trout","tag-mlb","tag-season","tag-second-extra-base-hit","tag-second-game","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-zach-neto"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116305300080338030","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}