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Mike Trout, Justin Upton and Luis Valbuena homered as the Angels won their seventh straight, beating the Kansas City Royals 5-3 Saturday night while playing the final innings in the snow. The Angels won their ninth consecutive road game, and will have Shohei Ohtani as their starting pitcher Sunday. The Royals have lost five straight. Continue to Article

April 14, 2018 11:29:pm EST

Garrett Richards pitched five effective innings as the visiting Los Angeles Angels topped the Kansas City Royals 5-3 on Saturday. Richards (2-0) retired the first 12 batters he faced. The Angels have won seven straight and lead the American League West with a 13-3 record. Continue to Article

April 14, 2018 10:34:pm EST

Albert Pujols homered and drove in three runs, Ian Kinsler had three hits and a sacrifice fly that scored Shohei Ohtani with the go-ahead run in the eighth inning and the Los Angeles Angels rallied to beat the Kansas City Royals 5-4 on Friday night. The Angels have won six straight and nine of 10. Their 12-3 start matches their best record after 15 games, set in 1979. Zack Cozart and Ohtani, who doubled in his first at-bat, led off the eighth with singles off Justin Grimm (0-2). After Andrelton Simmons advanced the runners with a bunt, Luis Valbuena's pinch-single scored Cozart and moved Ohtani to third. Kinsler's flyout to center drove in Ohtani. Blake Wood (1-0) worked a spotless seventh to Continue to Article

April 13, 2018 11:54:pm EST

Shohei Ohtani had to get a new bat for his triple that broke open the game. Ohtani tripled with the bases loaded in a five-run seventh inning to help the streaking Los Angeles Angels beat the Kansas City Royals 7-1 on Thursday night for their fifth straight victory. Ohtani gave one of his bats to a 6-year-old boy, Leo Guastello, who boldly asked for it before the game when the two-way rookie star from Japan was signing autographs. "He looked really sad when he was asking me," Ohtani said through a translator. "He really wanted that bat, so I gave it to him. Hopefully he can swing the bat and become a good player someday, but I can't be doing this all the time or I'll run out of bats." Mike Trout Continue to Article

April 13, 2018 1:48:am EST

Nick Tropeano threw 6 2/3 scoreless innings in his first major league start in nearly two years to help lift the Los Angeles Angels to a 7-1 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Thursday night at Kauffman Stadium. The Angels' offense continued to batter opposing pitchers, getting 15 hits, and a new wrinkle showed in Shohei Ohtani's game -- speed. Ian Kinsler homered in the first inning, but the game-breaking blow came in the seventh on a three-run triple by Ohtani. Continue to Article

April 12, 2018 11:34:pm EST