ANAHEIM - Oakland’s bats finally showed up to the series at Angel Stadium, all at once in the same inning, but the Angels played the long con en route to nailing down the three-game sweep.
The A’s peppered the Angels with eight runs in the fourth inning Wednesday only to have their bullpen falter, with Chris Hatcher serving up Cliff Pennington’s first career grand slam in the seventh in the Angels’ 10-8 victory.
Mike Trout, however, was the real driving force Wednesday after missing the first two games of the series with neck stiffness. The two-time MVP crushed a pitch from Kendall Graveman out to right in the first inning, then, when Graveman walked Trout his next time up, Albert Pujols followed with a homer to center.