Brandon Drury was a triple shy of the cycle and Lucas Giolito gave up three runs in six innings to lead the Angels to a 7-5 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Tuesday night in Anaheim, Calif., ending Los Angeles’ season-worst, seven-game losing streak.
Drury singled in the first, homered in the fifth and doubled in the seventh, scoring in each inning. With a chance to hit for the cycle in the eighth inning, Drury grounded out.
Giolito (7-8) earned his first victory with the Angels since being traded from the Chicago White Sox on July 26. He lost his first two starts with the club but gave up three hits and three walks with seven strikeouts on Tuesday.
Luis Rengifo, Mike Moustakas and Hunter Renfroe each had two hits for Los Angeles. Wilmer Flores singled, homered and drove in four runs in a losing effort for San Francisco.
Right-handed reliever Dominic Leone, who joined the Angels in a trade deadline deal with the Mets, gave up one run in two innings for his first save of the season.
The Giants went with left-hander Scott Alexander (6-2) as their opener, but he failed to record an out.
Rengifo led off the first with a double, Shohei Ohtani singled home Rengifo and Drury singled. That was it for Alexander, but the Angels didn’t stop there.
Jakob Junis entered the game and gave up an RBI single to Moustakas and an RBI double to Renfroe. Giants second baseman Thairo Estrada’s throwing error on the relay home allowed a fourth run to score in the inning.
Giolito kept the Giants off the scoreboard until the third, when they loaded the bases with one out. Joc Pederson’s infield single drove in San Francisco’s first run of the game and Flores followed with a two-run single to get the Giants within 4-3.
Drury’s solo homer off Alex Wood increased the Angels’ lead to 5-3 in the fifth, then Drury sparked a rally in the seventh with a one-out double off Wood. He went to third on a single by C.J. Cron and scored on Moustakas’ sacrifice fly to put the Angels up 6-3.
–Field Level Media
