Logan O’Hoppe hit two home runs and drove in four runs and Luis Rengifo also homered as the Los Angeles Angels cruised to a 9-1 victory over the Houston Astros on Saturday night in Anaheim, Calif.
It was the fourth multi-homer game of O’Hoppe’s career and the second this season. Zach Neto doubled twice and scored a run, Nolan Schanuel went 2-for-3 with a run scored and an RBI, and Taylor Ward doubled, scored twice and drove in two runs for Los Angeles, which snapped a two-game losing streak.
Jose Soriano (5-5) picked up the win after allowing one run on three hits over 6 2/3 innings. He walked three and struck out 10 — the second time in three starts he hit double-digits in strikeouts.
Jose Altuve walked three times and scored a run for Houston, which finished with just three hits.
Brandon Walter (0-1), making the fourth start of his career, suffered the loss in yielding seven runs on nine hits in six innings. Walter, who had allowed a total of just three runs in his three previous starts, walked one and struck out six.
Los Angeles took a 2-0 lead in the second inning when Rengifo drilled a two-run homer 408 feet over the bullpen in left field.
The Angels extended the lead to 6-0 with four runs in the third. Schanuel was hit by a pitch and went to second on Mike Trout’s single. Ward then lined an opposite-field double down the right field line to drive in Schanuel and Trout. O’Hoppe followed with a home run to left-center, his first since May 22.
Houston cut the lead to 6-1 in the fourth when Altuve led off with a walk, advanced to second on a groundout, tagged and went to third on a long flyout to right by Cam Smith, and scored on a single by Christian Walker.
Los Angeles increased its lead to 7-1 in the bottom of the fourth on an RBI single by Schanuel, driving in Neto, who had doubled. O’Hoppe finished the scoring with his 16th home of the season in the seventh, a two-run blast to left, driving in Ward, who had walked.
–Field Level Media
