The Angels’ happiness lasted maybe ten minutes. Mike Trout took a first pitch fastball from Mike Clevinger and rocketed it into the left field seats. It was your classic Trout liner dinger:
Then reality set in.
Taylor Cole opened for the Angels, and he was wild. He walked Francisco Lindor on five pitches, then threw a meatball to Oscar Mercado that went for a single. Carlos Santana roped a single, Cole went 3-0 on Yasiel Puig, who then lasered a single, and immediately the Angels were in the hole.