Mike Trout went 3-for-5 with two RBIs and George Klassen gave up two runs on five hits over six innings to pick up his first major league victory as the Los Angeles Angels defeated the Texas Rangers 5-2 on Wednesday night in Anaheim, Calif.
Jose Siri had a game-tying pinch-hit double and also scored the go-ahead run on a squeeze play for Los Angeles, which defeated Texas for the fifth time in six games at Angel Stadium this season.
Klassen (1-1), making his fourth career big league start, walked one, hit a batter and struck out five. Ben Joyce, who hit 103.4 mph on the radar gun with a fastball, struck out one during a 1-2-3 ninth to pick up his first save.
Corey Seager homered, doubled and singled for Texas, which finished with just seven hits. Robby Ahlstrom (3-1) suffered his first big league loss in relief, allowing three runs on two hits in one-third of an inning.
Texas took a 1-0 lead in the second inning, loading the bases with two outs on back-to-back singles by Evan Carter and Elias Diaz followed by Nicky Lopez getting hit by a pitch. Joc Pederson then walked to force in Carter.
The Rangers extended the lead to 2-0 in the third inning when Seager led off with his 12th home run, a towering 378-foot drive to right.
Los Angeles cut the deficit to 2-1 in the bottom of the third when Denzer Guzman led off with a single, advanced to second on a wild pitch and scored on a single by Trout.
The Angels scored three times in the sixth inning off Ahlstrom to take a 4-2 lead. Siri drove in the first run with a pinch-hit, line-drive to double to the fence in left-center, then stole third and scored on Guzman’s squeeze bunt, just beating a flip home by pitcher Peyton Gray. One out later, Trout added an RBI single, driving in Oswald Peraza, who had been hit by a pitch.
Los Angeles added an insurance run in the seventh inning when Zach Neto and Moises Ballesteros walked to lead off the inning and Adam Frazier singled off the first base bag with two outs to plate Neto.