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Mike Trout blasts another homer as Angels down Yankees

April 16, 2026

NEW YORK — The Angels have demonstrated this week that, if nothing else, they are resilient.

They suffered two gut-wrenching ninth-inning losses this week, and both times they rebounded to win the next day.

It’s a little easier to do when you’ve got Mike Trout doing his best impression of three-time MVP Mike Trout.

“He’s been unbelievable,” Angels manager Kurt Suzuki said after Trout homered for the fourth straight game and Jo Adell hit a grand slam in the Angels’ 11-4 victory over the New York Yankees on Thursday afternoon.

Trout is the first opposing player to hit five homers against the Yankees in a series in the Bronx, at any version of their home ballpark. It’s the fourth time in his career that he homered in four straight games, and the first since 2022.

Trout now has seven homers, one off the major league lead, and an OPS of 1.010.

“At this point, it’s vintage Mike Trout, you know what I mean?” Adell said. “When he’s healthy and he’s feeling good, there’s really nothing like it. It’s special. It’s one of a kind, so it’s really, for all of us to experience it, it’s special.”

Trout helped the Angels (10-10) split the four-game series, even though they could have won all four.

“Pretty cool to see the bounce back from the team after last night,” Trout said. “We could have come in today, kept our heads down and lost, but we came out fighting.”

Their bounceback Thursday was particularly notable because they did it on a day when all factors pointed to a loss.

While the Yankees sent ace left-hander Max Fried to mound, the Angels had a bullpen game, with a bullpen that hasn’t been so good lately. The Angels were also without RBI leader Jorge Soler, who is serving a four-game suspension.

“It definitely wasn’t lined up for us,” Suzuki said.

They still have Trout, though.

And, as it turns out, having Oswald Peraza is pretty handy too.

Playing in his first series as a visitor against his former team, Peraza hit a two-run homer in the first and he drove in the tying run with a double in the fourth. Peraza also homered Tuesday.

“I think Peraza set the tone with that first-inning homer off Fried,” Suzuki said. “That was huge. It kind of set the tone for us for the rest of the game. Obviously Max being one of the best pitchers in the league, to get to him early like that and then just just kind of have good at-bats off him throughout the game. He held us down until the sixth inning, but I think the at-bats, the grinding the at-bats, everybody was really good today.”

Josh Lowe also came up big for the Angels, after struggling for most of the season’s first three weeks. Lowe has recently shown some encouraging signs, including a homer Friday and an 11-pitch walk to extend a rally Monday.

Lowe came to the plate with the bases loaded in the fourth, just after a Vaughn Grissom single put the Angels ahead, 4-3. This time, Lowe worked a nine-pitch at-bat, ending with a bloop single into center, pushing home two runs.

After the Yankees got one of those runs back in the sixth, Trout’s seventh homer of the season restored the lead to three. The Yankees intentionally walked Trout in the eighth, and Adell made them pay by hitting a grand slam.

The Angels scored 54 runs in the seven games on this trip through Cincinnati and New York, winning four times and nearly winning six. Their OPS for the trip was .901.

The offense was good enough to give the bullpen plenty of cushion on a day when the relievers had to work all nine innings.

The Angels went with a bullpen game because they didn’t have any obvious replacement for right-hander Ryan Johnson, who was placed on the injured list with an illness and subsequently tweaked his hamstring. Right-hander George Klassen got two turns, but was sent down after walking 10 and allowing seven runs.

On Thursday, left-hander Brett Suter gave up one run, on Aaron Judge’s fourth homer of the series, in his two innings. Right-hander Nick Sandlin then gave up a two-run homer to Giancarlo Stanton in the third.

Left-hander Sam Aldegheri picked up five outs. The Angels had the lead by the time he turned the game over to right-hander Sam Bachman, who had the best day of any of the relievers.

Bachman worked three scoreless innings, without a walk. One of his two strikeouts was against Judge. Chase Silseth worked a scoreless ninth to finish it.

“It was a great job by them,” Suzuki said. “Four runs against these guys on a bullpen day? That was pretty special.”

Orange County Register

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