Angels win in Houston after fan pulls ball from Mike Trout's glove

Jeff Fletcher, The Orange County Register on Apr 12, 2025

Published in Baseball

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HOUSTON — The most memorable out of Tyler Anderson’s gem was an out that he didn’t even get.

Anderson took a no-hitter into the sixth inning and the recently homer happy Angels hit two more in a 4-1 victory over the Houston Astros on Saturday night.

The lasting image of the game, though, will be an Astros fan grabbing a foul ball out of Mike Trout’s glove as he tried to make a catch.

Trout leaped and reached over the wall to snag a ball hit by Yainer Diaz. Before he pulled the ball back, though, the fan yanked it out of his glove.

Trout and manager Ron Washington each pleaded separately with first base umpire Alan Porter that fan interference should have been called.

It was reminiscent of a play during last year’s World Series, when a fan at Yankee Stadium pulled the ball from the glove of Dodgers right fielder Mookie Betts. In that case, interference was called, and Major League Baseball subsequently banned the fan from attending games.

In this case, the fan — identified by The Athletic as Jared Whalen — was relocated to another seat. Whalen told The Athletic that he was trying to protect his young son from the ball. He said he apologized to Trout.

The whole event became academic a few minutes after it happened because Anderson got Diaz on a routine flyout to center field on the next pitch.

At that point, Anderson was sailing through the Astros’ order without any trouble.

He retired the first 10 hitters of the game before getting into a self-inflicted jam in the fourth, when he walked the bases loaded.

Anderson then struck out Jeremy Peña and then he got Diaz on a lineout, preserving the shutout and the no-hitter.

Slugger Yordan Alvarez had the Astros’ first hit of the night with two outs in the sixth. Anderson then issued a walk, ending his night.

Right-hander Ryan Johnson struck out Peña to preserve the shutout. Brock Burke, Ryan Zeferjahn and Kenley Jansen each worked an inning to finish off the victory. Zeferjahn allowed a run, which simply created a save situation for Jansen.

The bullpen had some margin for error because the lineup continues to mash balls over the fence at an impressive rate.

The Angels have now hit 25 homers in the last nine games, the most in franchise history for any nine-game stretch.

Nolan Schanuel’s homer was his first of the season and then Taylor Ward his his fourth of the season, all in the last four games.