Trout's First Four-Hit Game Since 2021 Powers Angels Win
Mike Trout went 4-for-4 in the Angels' 4-3 win over the Giants on July 26, passing Tim Salmon on two franchise career lists.
Mike Trout went 4-for-4 at Oracle Park on Sunday, July 26, producing his first four-hit game since April 26, 2021, as the Los Angeles Angels held off the San Francisco Giants 4-3 in the series finale to avoid being swept.
The performance , a double and three singles , raised Trout's batting average to .247 and moved him past Tim Salmon on two entries in the Angels' franchise record books, according to the Associated Press. His 340th career double placed him second in club history, behind Garret Anderson's 489. His 1,014th single moved him to fourth, behind Anderson (1,572), Darin Erstad (1,082), and Brian Downing (1,062).
It was Trout's 21st career four-hit game.
How the Runs Scored
The Angels scored in the first inning when Trout reached base and scored on an RBI fielder's choice off the bat of Jorge Soler, giving Los Angeles a 1-0 lead. Trout had opened his day by doubling in the first inning.
The Angels added three more runs in the fourth. Soler opened the inning with a solo home run , his 12th of the season, per the official MLB highlight , and, after Nolan Schanuel drew a walk, Jo Adell extended the lead with a two-run shot to center field that measured 446 feet and was listed as his 16th homer of the year. That sequence made it 4-0.
Carson Whisenhunt worked five innings for San Francisco, allowing all four Los Angeles runs on five hits. He struck out seven but could not recover from the fourth-inning damage.
Soriano's Five Innings
José Soriano kept the Giants scoreless until a throwing error by shortstop Zach Neto in the fifth inning plated Willy Adames , who had led off the inning with a double. The run was unearned. Soriano finished with five innings pitched, three hits, three walks, and five strikeouts, improving his record to 9-6 on the season.
The Angels' bullpen , Samy Natera Jr., Chase Silseth, and Ryan Zeferjahn , held the 4-1 lead through eight innings before Sam Bachman ran into trouble to open the ninth, walking two of the three batters he faced.
Giants Rally Falls One Short
Mitch Farris, seeking his first career save, entered with one out and the potential tying run at the plate. He got Daniel Susac to line out to center, but Luis Arraez then doubled off the right-field wall to cut the deficit to 4-3. Farris induced the final out to close the game and secure the save.
The loss left San Francisco with a losing record on the season. The win ended a three-game skid for Los Angeles and prevented a sweep.
Trade Deadline Week
The result arrived one week before the August 3 MLB Trade Deadline at 6 p.m. ET , the same deadline with Soriano, Adell, and others on the Angels named as potential trade candidates. Both Soriano and Adell were central to the win on Sunday, a fact that rival front offices monitoring their value in the final days before August 3 will not have missed.
Soriano, controllable through 2028, has drawn consistent interest throughout the summer, per multiple published reports. Adell, a free agent after next season, delivered the biggest swing of the afternoon. Whether either remains an Angel past August 3 remains an open question , the Angels under interim general manager John Mozeliak have been described as open to moving controllable assets for the right return, per MLB's trade deadline coverage.
Trout's Place in the Franchise Lists
Trout passing Salmon on the doubles list is a concrete measurement of what he has accumulated in Anaheim. Salmon spent 14 seasons with the organization. Trout surpassed his double total in fewer games. The singles milestone places Trout fourth all-time in the franchise, behind Anderson, Erstad, and Downing , three players who anchored the lineup across different decades of Angels baseball.
The four-hit performance also ended a stretch of more than five years without one , a span that included multiple significant injury absences. His last such game came on April 26, 2021, at Texas, when he returned from an absence and collected four hits, including a double to left that plated Shohei Ohtani and Kurt Suzuki, a moment captured in the MLB highlight from that day.
Sunday's 4-for-4 at Oracle Park required no comeback narrative. Trout doubled his first time up, singled, singled again, and singled a third time , 4-for-4, no strikeouts, in a game that mattered on the standings sheet even if the Angels' playoff position remains distant.
