Angels overwhelm Reds with five home runs

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ANAHEIM — As the Reds visited Angel Stadium for the first time since 2002, the Angels’ hitters pounced quickly to make it an unpleasant experience. Familiar faces like Mike Trout and Albert Pujols provided two of their five home runs as they rolled to a 9-2 victory on Monday night.

The Angels have won three straight games and five of their last six, while the Reds lost for the sixth time in eight games.

Trout and Pujols hit back-to-back homers off Dan Straily in the first inning, and C.J. Cron and Jefry Marte cleared the fences in the third. Kole Calhoun led off the fourth inning vs. Alfredo Simon with another homer, as the Angels scored nine unanswered runs following Joey Votto’s two-run shot against Matt Shoemaker in the top of the first.

Trout, Cron, Marte and Calhoun each …

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