ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -- Kendrys Morales homered, Lorenzo Cain drove in two runs and the Kansas City Royals remained unbeaten with a 4-2 victory over Los Angeles on Friday night in the Angels' home opener.Eric Hosmer drove in an early run and Jason Vargas pitched six solid innings against his former team for the defending AL champion Royals. They followed up their season-opening sweep of the White Sox with a win in the same ballpark where they won the first two games of last October's AL Division Series. 
David Freese homered and Kole Calhoun had an early RBI double for the Angels, who have lost their last three home openers.Vargas (1-0) yielded five hits and two runs over six innings with little serious trouble for the former Long Beach State star.Wade Davis pitched the ninth for his first save.Hector Santiago (0-1) struggled at times in his season debut, yielding six hits and three runs while pitching into the sixth.After taking two of three in Seattle, the Angels returned home to a modest celebration of their AL West title in their 50th home opener at the Big A, the majors' fourth-oldest stadium. The Royals' presence also gave the Angels an ugly reminder of their postseason faceplant, which included dramatic 11th-inning homers into the elevated right-field stands by the Royals on their way to a sweep.Mike Trout went 2 for 3 with a walk, but the AL MVP was stranded twice and erased on a double-play grounder by Albert Pujols, who went hitless to extend his season-opening skid to 2 for 15.Hosmer, whose homer won Game 2, drilled a single past longtime Royals backup Johnny Giavotella in the first inning to score Cain.After Calhoun snapped his 1-for-12 skid to tie it in the third, Cain's RBI single put Kansas City ahead in the fifth.Morales connected in the sixth for his first homer, stepping delicately on home plate at the same stadium where he broke his leg stepping on the plate after hitting a game-ending grand slam for the Angels on May 29, 2010, sidelining him for nearly two years.Freese hit his second homer of the season in the sixth.
David Freese homered and Kole Calhoun had an early RBI double for the Angels, who have lost their last three home openers.Vargas (1-0) yielded five hits and two runs over six innings with little serious trouble for the former Long Beach State star.Wade Davis pitched the ninth for his first save.Hector Santiago (0-1) struggled at times in his season debut, yielding six hits and three runs while pitching into the sixth.After taking two of three in Seattle, the Angels returned home to a modest celebration of their AL West title in their 50th home opener at the Big A, the majors' fourth-oldest stadium. The Royals' presence also gave the Angels an ugly reminder of their postseason faceplant, which included dramatic 11th-inning homers into the elevated right-field stands by the Royals on their way to a sweep.Mike Trout went 2 for 3 with a walk, but the AL MVP was stranded twice and erased on a double-play grounder by Albert Pujols, who went hitless to extend his season-opening skid to 2 for 15.Hosmer, whose homer won Game 2, drilled a single past longtime Royals backup Johnny Giavotella in the first inning to score Cain.After Calhoun snapped his 1-for-12 skid to tie it in the third, Cain's RBI single put Kansas City ahead in the fifth.Morales connected in the sixth for his first homer, stepping delicately on home plate at the same stadium where he broke his leg stepping on the plate after hitting a game-ending grand slam for the Angels on May 29, 2010, sidelining him for nearly two years.Freese hit his second homer of the season in the sixth.
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