ANAHEIM -- David Freese turned on a full-count, inside-corner fastball from Rangers reliever Keone Kela, lifted it deep into the left-center-field gap, watched it sail just beyond the Angel Stadium fence and immediately thought about Garrett Richards.
OK, almost immediately.
"The first thought was [heck] yeah," Freese said. "The second thought was G-Rich."
Freese's two-out, two-run homer came in the bottom of the seventh on Friday night. It gave the Angels a 3-2 lead and set Richards up to capture his first win in his first home start since suffering a ruptured patellar tendon on Aug.