Photo courtesy of Los Angeles Angels.

By Titus Wilkinson (@TitusWisme)

The Giants battled with the Angels in the second of their three-game series over the weekend.

On the mound for the Giants would be Keaton Winn who has had a rough start to the season but was looking for a bounce back win with his record sitting at 3-7.

While for the Angels it was Patrick Sandoval who has also had a similarly rough start to his campaign with a 2-8 record to start the season.

Things started off with a bang for the Giants offense as in the bottom of the first inning as the red hot Heliot Ramos launched on to center field getting a two-run homer. It was his eighth homer of the season and had an exit velo of 107.7 mph.

The Angels in the second responded with a long ball of their own this time off the bat of Mickey Moniak who made it a 2-1 ballgame.

Ramos’s night wasn’t quite done as in the fifth he would double getting Curt Casali home and giving the Giants their two-run lead back.

Once again though the Angels had a response and it what a response it would be. The tying runs came from Logan O’Hoppe who absolutely crushed one over the center field wall a total of 467 ft. Not only did it travel incredibly far it also exited off the bat at 110 mph. Truly a home run O’Hoppe will probably never forget.

With the game now tied 3-3 the Angles would take their first lead of the game in the seventh as Luis Rengifo singled to get Nolan Schanuel home.

Ramos managed to get another hit on the night as doubled in the seventh, but the Giants did nothing with it. That hit from Ramos ended up being the last hit from the Giants as they’d be shut down the rest of the way eventually losing 4-3.

Getting the win for the Angels would be Matt Moore who improves to 3-2 on the season. While Ryan Walker took the loss dropping his record to 4-3.

As mentioned above, Ramos had a stellar night with three hits and three RBI’s almost single-handedly leading the Giants to a win.

For the Angels the true best player of the game for them was O’Hoppe with his clutch home run and another hit in the game as well.

The loss drops the Giants to 34-37 and the Angels now move up to 28-42.

The Giants will look to avoid the dreaded sweep tomorrow these two teams will close out the weekend series at 1:05 p.m. on Sunday.