Jared Walsh’s RBI single snapped a 5-5 tie and sparked a four-run rally in the eighth inning that lifted the Los Angeles Angels to a 9-5 victory over the Houston Astros Sunday afternoon in Anaheim, Calif.Even without center fielder Mike Trout, who got the day off, the Angels were able to finish off a four-game sweep of the Astros, who are just beginning an 11-game road trip. The Angels have won five in a row.Jo Adell, who started in center in Trout’s place, began the Angels’ eighth-inning rally with a single, his second hit of the afternoon. He went to third on a single by Max Stassi and scored on Walsh’s single off Astros starter Framber Valdez.Astros manager Dusty Baker stuck with Valdez into the eighth inning despite the scorching conditions — it was 106 degrees at first pitch and 108 degrees when Valdez was lifted in the eighth.Valdez (3-3) gave up eight runs on 11 hits and two walks, throwing 108 pitches in seven-plus innings. The Angels added three more runs in the eighth, getting a bases-loaded walk from Luis Rengifo and a two-run single from Justin Upton off Houston reliever Chris Devenski.In addition to Adell, Anthony Rendon, Taylor Ward, Walsh and Stassi each had two hits for Los Angeles. Mike Mayers (1-0), one of five Angels relievers, got the victory.The Astros (21-19) had just six hits, but three of them were home runs. Kyle Tucker (No. 8 on the season in the first inning), Aledmys Diaz (No. 2 in the second) and Carlos Correa (No. 4 in the seventh) all left the yard for Houston.The home runs by Tucker and Diaz in the first two innings gave the Astros a 3-0 lead against Angels starter Jaime Barria. But the Angels responded against Valdez in the bottom of the second with an RBI single by Ward and a two-run home run by Rendon, his eighth, in the third.The Angels (17-25) added another run in the third after Adell doubled and later scored on a sacrifice fly by Walsh to make it 4-3.Barria was done after five innings, giving up three runs on three hits and two walks, while striking out six and making 86 pitches.
