DETROIT — Homers can cover up a lot of deficiencies.
The Angels rank in the bottom half of the majors in just about all the significant statistics except for homers.
The Angels are third in the majors in homers after slugging three more in a 7-4 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Saturday night.
Jo Adell hit a three-run homer, Taylor Ward hit a two-run homer and Luis Rengifo added a solo shot, giving the Angels 167 homers this season.
Ward, who had three hits, drove in the only other run of the game with a first-inning double.
That was enough for the Angels (56-61) to snap their three-game losing streak.
It wasn’t looking good for the Angels when they struck out eight times in the first three innings against Charlie Morton. They trailed 2-1 in the fourth when Ward singled. Yoán Moncada was hit by a pitch, bringing Adell to the plate.
Adell pounded a 400-foot homer to left field, his 25th of the season and fourth this week.
Angels starter Yusei Kikuchi gave back that lead, but Ward put the Angels on top again in the next inning.
Ward extended his career-high with his 27th homer of the season, a two-run blast to left-center.
Rengifo’s homer in the eighth padded the lead to three runs, and the Angels’ bullpen held it.
Right-hander Ryan Zeferjahn and left-hander Brock Burke each worked scoreless innings with a two-run lead, and then Luis Garcia and closer Kenley Jansen handled the final two with the extra cushion.
They preserved a victory for Kikuchi on a night that he struggled through five innings.
Kikuchi had back-to-back 25-pitch innings in the second and third, on his way to 102 pitches.
The Tigers had eight hits against him, and he walked two hitters. He also allowed the leadoff batter to reach in each of the five innings, so he threw almost all of his pitches under some stress.
The pitch count has been a problem for Kikuchi for months. He’s thrown at least 91 pitches in his last eight starts, but only once in that span has he finished the sixth inning.
More to come on this story.
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