{"id":853457,"date":"2026-08-13T06:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T06:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/853457\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T06:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T06:20:09","slug":"mike-trout-leads-offense-and-george-klassen-earns-1st-mlb-win-as-angels-top-rangers-5-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/853457\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Trout leads offense and George Klassen earns 1st MLB win as Angels top Rangers 5-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">ANAHEIM, Calif. &#8212; Mike Trout had three hits and two RBIs, Jose Siri keyed a three-run sixth inning with a pinch-hit RBI double, and George Klassen earned his first major league win in the Los Angeles Angels\u2019 5-2 comeback victory over the Texas Rangers on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Klassen (1-1) gave up two runs and five hits over six innings, striking out five and walking one in his fourth career start. Angels reliever Blake Weiman threw a scoreless seventh before giving up two hits and striking out one in the eighth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Ryan Watson replaced Weiman and escaped the two-on, one-out jam. Ben Joyce, who missed most of the past two seasons because of shoulder injuries, retired the side in order in the ninth for his fifth career save and first since Sept. 1, 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Texas (60-61) dropped 1 1\/2 games behind first-place Houston in the AL West.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Angels trailed 2-1 when Mois\u00e9s Ballesteros opened the sixth with a single off reliever Robby Ahlstrom (3-1) and was erased on Vaughn Grissom\u2019s fielder\u2019s-choice grounder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Siri, batting for Josh Lowe, tied it 2-all with his RBI double to left-center and stole third without a throw. Oswald Peraza was hit by a pitch. Siri then scored on Denzer Guzman\u2019s safety squeeze, beating reliever Peyton Gray\u2019s flip home with a headfirst slide for a 3-2 lead. Trout\u2019s two-out RBI single made it 4-2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Adam Frazier\u2019s RBI single off the first-base bag made it 5-2 in the seventh and snapped a string of 16 straight games in which the Angels scored four runs or fewer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Texas took a 1-0 lead in the second when Evan Carter and Elias Diaz singled, Nicky Lopez was hit by a pitch and Joc Pederson walked to force in a run. Corey Seager\u2019s solo homer in the third, a towering drive to right, made it 2-0.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Angels cut the deficit to 2-1 in the bottom of the third when Guzman singled, went to second on a wild pitch and scored on Trout\u2019s single, only the seventh RBI in 47 games since June 16 for the three-time AL MVP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Rangers starter Cal Quantrill gave up one run and four hits in five innings, striking out six and walking three.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Rangers RHP Jacob deGrom (8-7, 3.87 ERA) will face Angels RHP Walbert Ure\u00f1a in Thursday night\u2019s series finale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See AP\u2019s full MLB coverage here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, Calif. &#8212; Mike Trout had three hits and two RBIs, Jose Siri keyed a three-run sixth inning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,4034,591,6784,85],"class_list":["post-853457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}