Jared Walsh pounded third base with his fist. Justin Upton pounded his forearm on Walsh’s at home plate.
Two of the Angels’ most dangerous hitters from the end of last season were so again in the eighth inning Saturday night. Walsh erased a one-run deficit with an RBI triple, Upton clobbered a go-ahead two-run home run in the next at-bat, and the Angels went on to win 5-3 over the Chicago White Sox at Angel Stadium.
The Angels (2-1) had been playing from behind since the top of the sixth inning, when White Sox rookie Yermín Mercedes broke a 2-2 tie with an RBI double off the wall in left field — his eighth straight hit to begin the season, a major league record since the start of the live-ball era in 1900.