introduced with a one-year contract<\/a> in October.<\/p>\n“It’s special,” Suzuki said of his first managerial win, according to the Angels. “It’s a good feeling. Obviously, all the work that each and every one of us put in leading up to this \u2014 it’s just Game 1, but it’s still a special moment. I thought it was a great team effort.”<\/p>\n
Trout also walked three times and played center field for the first time since April 2024. The three-time MVP played 130 games last season, his most since 2019 because of various injuries.<\/p>\n
Making his franchise-record 14th opening day start, the 34-year-old Trout\u00a0broke a scoreless tie\u00a0in the seventh inning when he sent a 96 mph fastball from reliever AJ Blubaugh (0-1) 403 feet onto the train tracks in left-center. It was his fifth opening day homer, also a club record.<\/p>\n
The Angels snapped an eight-game road losing streak in season openers, starting 1-0 on the road for the first time since 2013.<\/p>\n
Oswald Peraza hit an RBI single in the eighth and Nolan Schanuel homered in the ninth.<\/p>\n
Jos\u00e9 Soriano (1-0) allowed two hits and four walks in six innings while striking out seven. Four relievers completed the three-hitter, with Jordan Romano working the ninth to earn the save in his Angels debut.<\/p>\n
Hunter Brown started for Houston and allowed four hits and four walks in 4 2\/3 innings. He struck out nine.<\/p>\n
The Astros went 0-for-7 with runners in scoring position while stranding nine runners.<\/p>\n
Houston designated hitter Yordan Alvarez may have been robbed of a home run in the first inning because the retractable roof at Daikin Park was closed. Alvarez hit a towering shot toward the right field foul pole, but it ricocheted off a horizontal rafter and landed in foul territory.<\/p>\n
It was ruled a foul ball. The Astros challenged, and the call was upheld after a review. Alvarez later struck out swinging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2014 Mike Trout homered to launch what he hopes will be a bounce-back year, leading the Los…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,13360,6632,6631,5167,2289,2998,127,136],"class_list":["post-240475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-app-professional-sports","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-associated-press","tag-hawaii","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-sports","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}