Mike Trout residence run streak ends Cleveland Guardians beat Los Angeles Angels

CLEVELAND (AP) — Angels star Mike Trout‘s streak of consecutive video games hitting a house run ended at seven, one shy of the key league report, and the AL Central-leading Cleveland Guardians beat Los Angeles 3-1 on Tuesday evening.

Trout went 0 for 3 with three routine flyballs and a stroll. The three-time AL MVP was chasing the mark of eight straight video games with a house run, set by Pittsburgh’s Dale Lengthy in 1956 and matched by Don Mattingly of the Yankees in 1987 and Seattle’s Ken Griffey Jr. in 1993.

Oscar Gonzalez’s two-run homer within the sixth broke a 1-all tie and gave Cleveland its fifth straight win. José Ramirez began the inning with a double and Gonzalez lined an 0-2 pitch from José Suarez (6-7) off the railing atop the wall in left subject.

Gonzalez, one in every of a number of rookies who’ve made a significant contribution in Cleveland’s shocking season, has eight residence runs. Rookie Kirk McCarty (3-2) held Los Angeles to 1 hit in 3 2/3 innings for Cleveland, which has gained seven of eight.

Emmanuel Clase gave up a two-out single within the ninth, however struck out Matt Duffy and transformed his thirty fifth save in 38 possibilities

Trout confronted rookie Cody Morris in his first two at-bats. He flied out to middle within the first and drew a four-pitch stroll within the third with a runner on second.

Trout batted in opposition to McCarty, one other rookie, within the fifth and flied out to middle on a 3-2 pitch after the primary three pitches had been balls. Trout flied out to proper in opposition to James Karinchak on a 2-1 pitch within the eighth.

Trout was the primary AL participant with a seven-game residence run streak since Kendrys Morales of Toronto in 2018. Cincinnati’s Joey Votto homered in seven straight final season from July 24-30.

Matt Thaiss hit a leadoff homer within the second off Morris. Luke Maile’s sacrifice fly tied the sport within the fifth.

Angels third baseman Matt Duffy fielded Myles Straw’s grounder within the fifth, however couldn’t get the ball out of his glove after two makes an attempt and the play went for a success.

Steven Kwan adopted with a gradual curler that got here to a cease midway up the third bottom line for an additional infield hit. Plate umpire John Tumpane, bending over to get a more in-depth look, gave the honest sign as Thaiss, whose solely hope was for the ball to roll foul, appeared on.

Suarez struck out Amed Rosario to finish the inning.

Morris, making his third main league begin, allowed one run, walked 5 and struck out 4 in 2 2/3 innings.

Angels infielder David Fletcher didn’t begin for the third day in a row due to a bruised proper hand. Fletcher batted for Andrew Velazquez and bunted for a success within the fifth. He additionally bunted for an out within the seventh.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Angels: RHP Shohei Ohtani is on schedule to begin Saturday in opposition to Seattle. He was eliminated due to a blister on his proper index after 5 innings in his final begin in opposition to Houston.

Guardians: RHP Aaron Civale (proper forearm irritation) might rejoin the rotation on Sept. 20. He’s anticipated to pitch on a rehab task late this week.

UP NEXT

LHP Patrick Sandoval (5-9, 2.98 ERA) will begin the collection finale for the Angels on Wednesday afternoon. RHP Cal Quantrill (12-5, 3.50 ERA) will begin for the Guardians. Quantrill is 12-0 in 40 profession video games at Progressive Area and has gone 32 straight residence begins with out a loss.

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