After he and Mike Trout hit back-to-back home runs in the first, Pujols hit a sacrifice fly in the second, singled in the fourth and sixth innings, then capped his night with an RBI double in the eighth.
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Angels outfielder Mike Trout slides past Blue Jays infielder Josh Donaldson as the Angels beat the Jays 8-2 on Wednesday.
“Albert just keeps going”, Angels manager Mike Scioscia said.
“That’s pretty special”, Trout said of Pujols’ milestone home run.
Pujols drive to left center was his 584th home run of his career moving him into sole possession of 10th on the all-time home run list.
“He hasn’t shown any signs of slowing down”, Trout said.
Manny Machado and Matt Wieters both scored a homer and drove in four runs to give the Baltimore Orioles a 10-8 win over the Washington Nationals, while Matt Carpenter, Randal Grichuk and Stephen Piscotty all homered in the St Louis Cardinals’ 8-1 rout of the New York Mets.
Luke Maile scored the decisive RBI in the 11th inning for the Tampa Bay Rays as they beat the Boston Red Sox 4-3, despite a 30th home run for Boston’s David Ortiz.
YANKEES 5, MARINERS 0 Rookie Gary Sanchez kept up his torrid stretch with his seventh home run in the past nine games, and Masahiro Tanaka won his fourth consecutive start, leading NY to a victory over host Seattle.
Toronto starter Marco Estrada (7-6) allowed 10 hits, three walks and six runs in five innings. “I’m sure things will turn around for me”. They matched the 1963 squad for the third-longest road skid in Angels history. “He didn’t make very many mistakes”.
Toronto came in tied with the Boston Red Sox atop the American League East with identical records and remained that way after Wednesday night MLB action. But one of those home runs was a bit more remarkable than the other.
In eight starts on the regular four days of rest this season, he is 3-0 with a 2.05 ERA.
Blue Jays: 2B Devon Travis (sore right ring finger) missed his second straight game.
Angels: RHP Jared Weaver (8-11, 5.47) will seek to avoid matching a career-worst streak of four straight losing starts.
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ATHLETICS 5, INDIANS 1 Kendall Graveman pitched into the seventh inning to become Oakland’s first 10-game victor this season, and the host A’s beat Cleveland to win the series. Happ has won 11 straight decisions. In his previous 13 starts on longer rest before Wednesday, he was 4-5 with an ERA of almost 4.00.
