San Francisco Giants’ Alex Dickerson, right, congratulates Mike Yastrzemski after a solo home run during the first inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels in Anaheim, Calif., Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Kelvin Kuo)

By Jeremy Kahn

This time the San Francisco Giants built a lead too big that not even the Los Angeles Angels could come back from.

Mike Yastrzemski and Pablo Sandoval each hit home runs, as the Giants defeated the Angels 8-2 at Anaheim Stadium.

With the victory, the Giants put a stop to a five-game losing streak that included three demoralizing defeats in the late inning.

Yastrzemski hit his team-leading sixth home run, as he took the fourth pitch he saw from Angels starter Dylan Bundy over the right field wall to give the Giants an early 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning. It was the first leadoff home run of Yastrzemskis career.

The right fielder was the star of the day, as he also came up big on defense, as he robbed David Fletcher of a potential RBI single when he made a diving catch to end the bottom of the second inning.

Giants starter Trevor Cahill pitched four innings, allowing one run on four hits and striking out four. Cahill pitched for the Angels during the 2019 season. Reliever Jarlin Garcia, who was the fifth Giants pitcher of the afternoon evened his record on the season at 1-1.

Bundy also went four innings, as he allowed four runs on four hits, four walks and a strikeout, as he lost for the second time this season.

Sandoval tomahawked a two-run home run in the top of the second inning to increase the Giants lead up to 3-1 and give them the lead for good.

Tommy La Stella tied up the game, as he took a Cahill pitch deep over the right field wall, a solo home run that was measured at 420 feet.

Five Giants relievers went the final five innings allowing just one run on just one hit, walked two and struck out one. The quintet of Caleb Baragar, Sam Selman, Wandy Peralta, Garcia and Shawn Anderson gave the Giants morale boost after a tough weekend against the Oakland As and in the opener of the three-game series against Angels on Monday night, when La Stella hit a two-run walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Angels a 7-6 victory.

NOTES: Yastrzemski now has 13 runs batted in with two strikes, tying him with Kole Calhoun of the Arizona Diamondbacks for the most in the major leagues. His batting average is .300 (15-for-50) when there is a count of that matter, and 10 of those hits are for extra bases.

When the first pitch was thrown by Bundy, the temperature at Anaheim Stadium was 99 degrees and it marked just the 10th time since the stadium opened on April 18, 1966 that the temperature was 99 or above. The record is 108 degrees on July 6, 2018 against the Los Angeles Dodgers.

UP NEXT: With the series heading up to the Bay Area, Johnny Cueto will take the ball on Wednesday night for the Giants, while Patrick Sandoval heads to the Oracle Park mound.