HOUSTON -- Mike Trout had his first multi-homer game of the season, became the youngest player with 100 home runs and 100 stolen bases and led the Angels to a 6-3 victory over the Astros at Minute Maid Park on Friday night.Each of Trout's homers broke ties and capped impressive at-bats. The first, a two-run shot to left off Roberto Hernandez in the fifth, came on a full-count sinker. The second, a three-run homer to right-center field off Chad Qualls in the seventh, came after fouling off a tough 0-2 pitch.
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The Mike Trout Show: In the fifth, Trout -- 23 years and 251 days old -- became the youngest player ever with 100 homers and 100 stolen bases, passing Alex Rodriguez, who got there at 23 years and 309 days in 1999. But he wasn't done. He homered again in the seventh, a three-run shot that broke a 3-3 tie, and put his batting average at .444 to start the season.Started off strong: For three innings, Hernandez was perfect, retiring his first nine batters, including four on strikeouts. The Angels didn't get their first baserunner until Kole Calhoun led off the fourth inning with a deep triple to center field on Hernandez's 45th pitch. Through five innings, Hernandez allowed only one hit and one run. In six innings, he allowed three runs and three hits, including Trout's two-run homer.Bend, but don't break: Angels manager Mike Scioscia took Weaver out of the game in the seventh, after his ace threw just 86 pitches, because he wanted to match up with a one-run lead. It didn't go so well initially, with the Astros loading the bases with nobody out and George Springer up to bat. Vinnie Pestano limited Springer to a game-tying sacrifice fly, though, and Cesar Ramos got Jed Lowrie to bounce into an inning-ending double play.Closing in: The Astros scored a run in the seventh to tie the game, 3-3, and it could have been a bigger inning for the Astros, but Ramos, the third Angels reliever of the inning, came in and got Lowrie to hit into a 6-4-3 inning-ending double play. Robbie Grossman and Jonathan Villar had consecutive pinch-hit singles with Grossman scoring on Springer's bases-loaded sacrifice fly to right fielder Calhoun.
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