ANAHEIM -- Hector Santiago continued his recent hot streak and three Angels had multi-hit games in a 6-1 win over the Marlins on Wednesday night at Angel Stadium.The Angels (79-53) posted their 11th win in their last 14 games and remained one game ahead of Oakland in the American League West. The Marlins (65-67) lost their second consecutive series.Santiago threw 5 2/3 innings of one-run ball, surrendering just three hits, striking out six and walking two. 
In his last four starts, the 26-year-old left-hander has a 1.19 ERA and a 1.06 WHIP, but Wednesday's outing was first time the Angels won a Santiago start since July 31.The Halos' offense scored five runs in front of Santiago, led by two-hit efforts from Mike Trout, Josh Hamilton and Gordon Beckham. The five runs were the most run support Santiago had received since July 10.Trout's seventh-inning home run off Marlins starter Henderson Alvarez was his 30th of the season, tying his career high from 2012. He is just the fifth American League player in baseball's history with two 30-home run seasons through his age-22 season, joining Jimmie Foxx, Ted Williams, Jose Canseco and Alex Rodriguez.Beckham, meanwhile, blasted his first home run as an Angel, a solo shot in the fourth that gave the Angels a three-run cushion.One inning earlier, Hamilton narrowly missed his first home run of the season at Angel Stadium, banging a double off the center-field wall that drove in Trout. Hamilton's double punctuated the Angels' three-run third inning, when they sent eight batters to the plate.Minus Adeiny Hechavarria's home run in the third, Santiago cruised through the first five innings, retiring the next eight Marlins after Hechavarria's blast. In the sixth, Santiago ran into trouble by allowing a two-out single to Jeff Baker and walking Giancarlo Stanton.Stanton's walk ended Santiago's night and kept the pitcher from his third six-inning appearance in his last four starts. Kevin Jepsen got Marcell Ozuna to ground out to end the threat.Like Santiago, Alvarez settled in after he allowed a homer. Following Beckham's dinger, Alvarez needed to face just 10 batters to record nine outs. That's when Trout's 30th home run of the season broke the streak and knocked him out of the game.Matthew DeFranks / MLB.com
In his last four starts, the 26-year-old left-hander has a 1.19 ERA and a 1.06 WHIP, but Wednesday's outing was first time the Angels won a Santiago start since July 31.The Halos' offense scored five runs in front of Santiago, led by two-hit efforts from Mike Trout, Josh Hamilton and Gordon Beckham. The five runs were the most run support Santiago had received since July 10.Trout's seventh-inning home run off Marlins starter Henderson Alvarez was his 30th of the season, tying his career high from 2012. He is just the fifth American League player in baseball's history with two 30-home run seasons through his age-22 season, joining Jimmie Foxx, Ted Williams, Jose Canseco and Alex Rodriguez.Beckham, meanwhile, blasted his first home run as an Angel, a solo shot in the fourth that gave the Angels a three-run cushion.One inning earlier, Hamilton narrowly missed his first home run of the season at Angel Stadium, banging a double off the center-field wall that drove in Trout. Hamilton's double punctuated the Angels' three-run third inning, when they sent eight batters to the plate.Minus Adeiny Hechavarria's home run in the third, Santiago cruised through the first five innings, retiring the next eight Marlins after Hechavarria's blast. In the sixth, Santiago ran into trouble by allowing a two-out single to Jeff Baker and walking Giancarlo Stanton.Stanton's walk ended Santiago's night and kept the pitcher from his third six-inning appearance in his last four starts. Kevin Jepsen got Marcell Ozuna to ground out to end the threat.Like Santiago, Alvarez settled in after he allowed a homer. Following Beckham's dinger, Alvarez needed to face just 10 batters to record nine outs. That's when Trout's 30th home run of the season broke the streak and knocked him out of the game.Matthew DeFranks / MLB.com
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