Mike Trout blasts another homer as Angels rout Yankees

Jeff Fletcher, The Orange County Register on Apr 16, 2026

Published in Baseball

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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 rebounded both times to win the next day.

It helps to do that when you’ve got Mike Trout doing his best impression of three-time MVP Mike Trout.

Trout homered for the fourth straight game and Jo Adell hit a grand slam, as the Angels beat the New York Yankees, 11-4, on Thursday afternoon.

Trout hit five homers in the four-game series, which the Angels split.

The Angels (10-10) had chances to win all four games, but they blew ninth-inning leads Monday and Wednesday.

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.

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.

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’s single put the Angels up 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.

Adell blasted a grand slam in the eighth, giving the Angels a seven-run cushion that was no problem for their bullpen to hold.

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.