Mike Trout gets things started, and the Angels go on to beat the Blue Jays, 8-2

The first two pitches Mike Trout saw from Marco Estrada on Wednesday at Rogers Centre were strikes. So Trout settled in, as he has done so well in such situations this season. He fouled a pitch off, watched three balls go by, then tracked a changeup down below the strike zone and golfed it for a home run.

It raised Trout’s statistics after 0-and-2 counts this season to . a .302 batting average with a .356 on-base percentage and a .583 slugging average in 104 plate appearances, more than double the major league average in each category. And it got the Angels started on their 8-2 rout of Toronto.

“I’m just trying to put pressure on the defense,” Trout said. “Trying to shorten my swing, not swing as hard and not hit the ball so far.”

Two pitches after Trout’s display of patience’s virtues, Albert Pujols launched a solo shot. The Angels piled on three more runs off Estrada in the second inning and one more in the fourth. They added a couple more off Blue Jays relievers, just as Toronto later did to them.

Matt Shoemaker turned in his best start in more than a month, holding the Blue Jays to two singles, a double and a walk over six scoreless innings. The right-hander struck out three and brought his cumulative earned-run average below 4.00, and his ERA while being caught by Jett Bandy to 2.95.

Shoemaker pitched with rare run support. The Angels had averaged only 3.3 runs in the 24 games he started this season, well below the league average. He said it did not affect how he pitched, but allowed that he might have thought of the rarity of it while on the mound.

Pujols’ home run was the 584th of his career, pushing him ahead of Mark McGwire for the 10th most in the sport’s history. It was the 30th time that Trout and Pujols had homered in the same game, still 45 occasions away from tying the all-time record for teammates, set by Eddie Mathews and Hank Aaron.

Bandy was an additional standout, achieving his first four-hit game and his first stolen base as the Angels moved to 53-73 on the season.

Manager Mike Scioscia mentioned that Bandy needed 28 steals to catch his career total.

Short hops

Right-hander Cam Bedrosian has a blood clot in his upper right arm, revealed by an angiogram this week. The Angels announced that he will see a vascular specialist, but the injury puts the rest of his season in doubt. The 24-year-old has so far logged a 1.12 ERA in 40 1/3 innings. … The Angels will have an employee in attendance at former football player Tim Tebow’s much-hyped workout next week in Los Angeles. More than 20 teams will reportedly be represented.

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