{"id":185323,"date":"2025-09-27T12:54:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T12:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/185323\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T12:54:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T12:54:18","slug":"angels-4-3-astros-sep-26-2025-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/185323\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels 4-3 Astros (Sep 26, 2025) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANAHEIM, Calif. &#8212; \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/30836\/mike-trout\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Trout<\/a> hit two home runs, including a tiebreaking shot in the eighth inning, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/29630\/kenley-jansen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kenley Jansen<\/a> got his 29th save, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/laa\/los-angeles-angels\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Angels<\/a> pushed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/hou\/houston-astros\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Astros<\/a> to the brink of playoff elimination with a 4-3 victory on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>              Trout snapped a 3-3 tie with a leadoff homer to right-center field off Astros reliever <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/5201821\/bryan-king\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bryan King<\/a> (5-4) in the eighth.<\/p>\n<p>              Jansen struck out the side in the ninth, winning a 10-pitch duel with Mauricio Dub\u00f3n to end the game, for the 476th save of his career, moving the 37-year-old right-hander to within two saves of Lee Smith for third on baseball\u2019s career list.<\/p>\n<p>              Angels left-hander <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/39945\/brock-burke\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brock Burke<\/a> (7-1) threw a scoreless eighth for the win.<\/p>\n<p>              The Astros, who blew 3-0 lead, are one game behind Cleveland and Detroit for the final AL wild card, though either the Guardians or Tigers will advance to the playoffs as AL Central champion.<\/p>\n<p>              Cleveland and Detroit also hold tiebreakers over Houston, so the Astros will have to win their final two games and the non division-winning Central team will have to lose twice for the Astros to reach the playoffs for the ninth straight year.<\/p>\n<p>              The Astros&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32758\/christian-walker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Walker<\/a> sparked a three-run fourth-inning rally with a solo homer. <\/p>\n<p>              Trout led off the bottom of the fourth with his 24th homer. Back-to-back doubles by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4927523\/christian-moore\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Moore<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4917822\/denzer-guzman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denzer Guzman<\/a> pulled the Angels to within 3-2 in the fifth, and Chris Taylor\u2019s RBI single in the seventh made it 3-all.<\/p>\n<p>              Key Moment&#13;<\/p>\n<p>              The Angels tied the score in the seventh, but the rally may have been bigger had Astros&#8217; center fielder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/5136815\/zach-cole\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zach Cole<\/a> not thrown out Christian Moore attempting to go from first to third on Guzman\u2019s single.<\/p>\n<p>              Key Stat&#13;<\/p>\n<p>              Trout\u2019s 30th career multihomer game gave him 1,017 career RBI, moving him past Tim Salmon for second on the franchise\u2019s career list behind Garret Anderson (1,292).<\/p>\n<p>              Up Next&#13;<\/p>\n<p>              Angels RHP <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/5197473\/caden-dana\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caden Dana<\/a> (0-3, 6.39 ERA) will start against Astros RHP <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/42556\/aj-blubaugh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AJ Blubaugh<\/a> (3-1, 1.93) on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>              &#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>              AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, Calif. &#8212; \u2014 Mike Trout hit two home runs, including a tiebreaking shot in the eighth inning,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-185323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}