Angels have strong all-around performance in 14-4 win over Twins

KEY MOMENT: The Angels ended a 3-3 tie with a three-run fifth inning. C.J. Cron led off with a double to center field and took third base on an error. Erick Aybar hit a sacrifice fly, Mike Trout walked and Albert Pujols singled. Howie Kendrick hit a two-run triple to right field and Pujols ran through third base coach Gary DiSarcina’s stop sign to score for a 6-3 lead. That propelled the Angels toward their 10th victory in 12 games.

AT THE PLATE: With his 32nd home run, a two-run shot in the third inning, Trout became the ninth player since 1914 to drive in 100 runs from the No. 2 spot in the order. The last was Toronto’s Aaron Hill in 2009. Eddie Mathews (Milwaukee, 1959) and Alex Rodriguez (Seattle, 1998) hold the season record with 114 runs batted in hitting in the two-spot. Kendrick hit a 433-foot home run into the second deck in left-center field in the second inning and singled in the seventh, coming up a double shy of the cycle, to cap a series in which he was 10 for 18 with two doubles, two triples, a home run and eight RBIs. Cron lined a two-run home run into the second deck in left field to highlight a six-run sixth, the sixth time this season the Angels scored six runs or more in an inning.

ON THE MOUND: C.J. Wilson (11-9) survived an extremely shaky start to go 61/3 innings, giving up three runs and four hits, striking out six and walking four but retiring 15 of his last 18 batters. The left-hander escaped a first-and-third, no-out jam in the first inning but walked the first three batters of the second. Aaron Hicks hit a two-run double and Brian Dozier hit a sacrifice fly for a 3-1 Twins lead before Wilson settled down.

EXTRA BASES: Josh Hamilton, who took a cortisone shot in the back of his right shoulder Thursday, was in the lineup Sunday, but his shoulder tightened up after batting practice and was scratched an hour before the game. He took several “trigger-point” injections to treat some muscle knots and is day to day. … Shawn O’Malley made his major league debut and reached on infield singles in the seventh and ninth innings.

UP NEXT: Right-hander Jered Weaver (15-8, 3.56 ERA) will oppose Cleveland right-hander Danny Salazar (6-6, 3.80) Monday at 10 a.m. PDT at Progressive Field. On the air: TV: FS West. Radio: 830.