(AP) In the first regular season showdown between two of baseball brightest young stars, Giancarlo Stanton upstaged Mike Trout with one very loud swing.

The Miami Marlins slugger hit a three run homer, highlighting their 7 1 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Monday night.

The loss dropped the Angels back into a tie for the AL West lead with Oakland, which won 8 2 in Houston.

Stanton and Trout entered the final interleague series of the season for both clubs leading their respective leagues in extra base hits and total bases. Stanton also tops the NL in homers, RBIs, on base percentage and slugging percentage. Trout, runner up in AL MVP voting each of the past two seasons, was this year All Star game MVP.

cool, but I wasn anticipating it or circling it on the schedule or anything like that, Stanton said. was looking forward more to seeing my family than seeing him. Cosart (2 1) allowed a run and seven hits over 7 2 3 innings. He struck out four in his fourth outing since he was acquired from Houston at the July 31 trade deadline. The right hander, who was 9 7 with the Astros, lost his shutout bid in the eighth on an RBI double by Kole Calhoun.

tried to attack the strike zone, first and foremost, Cosart said. one of the best lineups in the game, and you know the names on the backs of the jerseys in the middle of it. So if you get those guys out and get complacent, then the bottom of the order can hurt you. Then when they flip it back over, you in a world of hurt. Yelich, a native of Thousand Oaks, California, and a product of the baseball camp run by Angels manager Mike Scioscia, was 3 for 5 with a pair of RBI singles and a double.

think I was 8 or 9 when I want to his camp, so it been a while. There were a lot of kids at those things, so I didn think he would have any idea, Yelich said. was kind of weird today, stepping in the box and looking in the other dugout, and he was sitting right there. I just remember him giving speeches and stuff. It ended up paying off. LeBlanc (0 1) was charged with six runs and seven hits in 3 1 3 innings as a replacement for Garrett Richards, out for the season because of a torn patellar tendon in his left knee that occurred last Wednesday in Boston. This was LeBlanc first big league start since May 6, 2013, when he lost at San Diego while pitching for the Marlins.

first time through the order was pretty smooth, but they did a good job making adjustments and obviously I didn LeBlanc said. knew the adjustments I needed to make, and I just didn execute them. That a good hitting ballclub over there, and they pretty hot right now. I didn give this team much of a chance at all. Marlins opened the scoring with a three run third and made it 7 0 in the fourth with Stanton 33rd homer, a line drive to left center off Cory Rasmus that increased his RBI total to 97. It was the 150th career homer for the two time All Star right fielder, four shy of Dan Uggla franchise record.

difference between a four run game and a seven run game is like night and day, because they can put up four runs in an inning with no problem, Stanton said.

Marcell Ozuna started in the cleanup spot for Miami for the first time this season and was 0 for 4 with a sacrifice fly. Reed Johnson was the designated hitter and singled his first two times up, leaving him one hit short of 1,000.

Marlins: 1B Jeff Baker, who came out of two games during the series at Colorado because of sinus problems related to the mile high altitude, was back in the lineup and went 0 for 5 with three strikeouts. For the security conscious, these reports aren’t invasive and in https://www.topspyingapps.com/ no way does the app collect personal information