{"id":648443,"date":"2026-03-28T11:08:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T11:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/648443\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T11:08:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T11:08:46","slug":"trout-lowe-neto-homer-in-angels-6-2-win-over-astros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/648443\/","title":{"rendered":"Trout, Lowe, Neto homer in Angels 6-2 win over Astros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Mike Trout, Josh Lowe and Zach Neto hit home runs and the Los Angeles Angels beat the Houston Astros 6-2 on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>In his second game with the Angels, Lowe broke a 1-1 tie in the second when he sent a first pitch fastball from Mike Burrows into the Crawford Boxes for a three-run homer. Lowe was acquired by the Angels in a trade from the Tampa Bay Rays on Jan. 16.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Neto added a solo shot leading off the ninth inning for his second extra base hit of the night.<\/p>\n<p>The long balls were in support of an Angels staff led by Yusei Kikuchi, who allowed two runs on eight hits over 4 1\/3 innings. The bullpen quartet of Chase Silseth, Ryan Zeferjahn (1-0), Sam Bachman and Jordan Romano combined for 4 2\/3 scoreless innings.<\/p>\n<p>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 2\/3 innings. He struck out six.<\/p>\n<p>Yordan Alvarez hit a home run for the Astros, while Carlos Correa went 2 for 3 with a walk.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Pe\u00f1a, who missed <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/jeremy-pena-astros-finger-debut-ba1ea1e072d0c24b47866d67815b9c58\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thursday\u2019s season opener<\/a>, had two hits, a stolen base and scored a run.<\/p>\n<p>The Astros have started 0-2 for the second time in three seasons under manager Joe Espada.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Astros RHP Cristian Javier faces Angels LHP Reid Detmers when the series continues Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Mike Trout, Josh Lowe and Zach Neto hit home runs and the Los Angeles Angels&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2390],"tags":[291,5,2178,3225,1860,54,5101,5918,1098,1397,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,363,603,4,256,3923,10047,3510,185,1567,5099,2264,809,2052],"class_list":{"0":"post-648443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-angels","8":"tag-angels","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-carlos-correa","12":"tag-chase-silseth","13":"tag-houston-astros","14":"tag-jeremy-pea","15":"tag-joe-espada","16":"tag-jordan-romano","17":"tag-josh-lowe","18":"tag-la","19":"tag-la-angels","20":"tag-laangels","21":"tag-los-angeles","22":"tag-los-angeles-angels","23":"tag-losangeles","24":"tag-losangelesangels","25":"tag-mike-burrows","26":"tag-mike-trout","27":"tag-mlb","28":"tag-mlb-baseball","29":"tag-reid-detmers","30":"tag-ryan-zeferjahn","31":"tag-sam-bachman","32":"tag-sports","33":"tag-texas","34":"tag-tx-state-wire","35":"tag-yordan-alvarez","36":"tag-yusei-kikuchi","37":"tag-zach-neto"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116306493294778731","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648443","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=648443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}