HOUSTON — The Angels watched the Houston Astros put on a clinic in small ball and big ball on Monday night.
The Angels lost, 8-3, to the Astros in the opener of a three-game series, with much of the damage coming on a pair of titanic two-run homers by slugger Yordan Alvarez.
In between, the Astros took advantage of some sloppiness by the Angels to score two runs in the fourth and they executed perfectly to manufacture a run in the sixth.
