Landon Roupp had everyone figured out but Mike Trout Saturday night and that proved to be enough for the Giants in a 3-2 road win over the Los Angeles Angels.
Roupp went seven innings, a career high and the deepest he’s gone this season in improving his record to 2-1. He gave up two runs on solo homers by Trout and nothing else. He walked just one, struck out nine and threw 96 pitches, 62 of them strikes.
Tyler Rogers threw a scoreless eighth and Ryan Walker the ninth for his fifth save. Walker’s first order of business? Retire Trout, who threw a scare into the Giants with a deep drive to left that was tracked by Heliot Ramos.
Walker then gave up a single to Jorge Soler before Matt Chapman slipped while fielded a ground ball by Logan O’Hoppe on a 3-0 count and managed to throw him out from his knees. Chapman caught a spike in the dirt and limped back to his position but finished the game.
The final out came on a fly ball to center by Nolan Schaunel with pinch runner Tim Anderson at second.
The Giants, 14-7, can win their fifth series of the season with a win Sunday over the Angels and are 5-4 on a 10-game on a 10-game road trip. Los Angeles fell to 10-10. The Giants return home for seven games against Milwaukee and Texas starting Monday.
Matt Chapman hit a two-run home run in the first, his fourth of the season.Trout, who struck out three times the previous night against Logan Webb and the first time against Roupp, unloaded in the fourth for his seventh homer. It wasn’t a wall-scraper either, traveling 435 feet and leaving the bat at 115.2 miles per hour on a hanging curve.
Trout wasn’t finished. He hit another solo homer down the left field line against Roupp in the sixth.
After being shut the previous night, Chapman got the Giants on the board in the top of the first with a two-run home run to left field. It came on an 0-1 pitch on a change-up above the belt that starter Kyle Hendricks (0-1) probably regretted the moment it left his hand.
The Giants led 3-0 in the third when Willy Adames singled to right off a Hendricks change-up to drive in Mike Yastrzemski, who hit one-out double to eight. Adames, who was 6-for-32 on the road trip, was thrown out in rundown as Yastrzemski scored.
NOTES
— Melvin left Wade in to hit against the left-handed Detmers and the first baseman hit a line shot to shortstop Zach Neto for an out. Wade, Melvin said, would give way to David Villar at first base against the left-handed Yusei Kikuchi (0-3, 4.13) Sunday. Justin Verlander (0-1, 6.75) will pitch for the Giants.
Villar was called up from Triple-A Sacramento as a replacement for Casey Schmitt, who went on the injured list with with a strained oblique for the Giants’ first roster move of the season.