It took just one inning for the Los Angeles Angels to flip Fenway Park on its head. Standing at the heart of it, grinning, bat in hand, was Mike Trout. The game was barely ten minutes old when Trout connected with a center-cut fastball and sent it screaming 454 feet into the Boston night. As the ball landed beyond the center field fence, the Angels did something that no visiting team had ever been able to do in the storied ballpark’s 113-year history: hit three home runs in the top of the first inning.

Being at the center of it all, Trout watched as his teammates made history, each play bigger than the last. When the dust finally settled and the scoreboard told the story, reporters rushed over to Trout for his thoughts. “Yeah, that’s sick,” Trout told Erica Weston postgame, when asked about how crazy it must have been. “It was fun to be a part of that first inning. Give the guys a lead, and you know we held it.” In that moment, Trout’s honest reaction said it all.

And it wasn’t just any home run. In the 35 career games he played at Fenway, this was his second-ever homer, a fact that surprised even him. “I think I got one off Priscilla, and then that was the second one,” he said. “But, you know, that wall is big out there, so you’ve got to hit them real high.” You could feel the shift on the field, in the dugout, and even online.

What makes this moment even more impressive is how Trout got here. While sidelined with a bruised knee, he couldn’t run, but he could swing. Trout used that time to work closely with the Angels’ hitting coaches. He made subtle mechanical tweaks and broke down video to reset his approach at the plate. The results have been immediate: since his return, he’s gone 8-for-14 with three hits in each of his last three starts, raising his average and passing franchise legends on the all-time hits list.

The Angels would go on to win 7–6, surviving a late Red Sox rally and leaning on the bullpen to seal it. But it was that electric first inning, and Trout’s resounding swing that set the tone. For one night at Fenway, history belonged to the Halos. And it was anything but easy.

Angels Capitalize, Red Sox Rally Falls Short

The win didn’t come gift-wrapped. After the Angels built a 7–2 cushion by the fifth inning, the Red Sox didn’t blink. Rafael Devers got them rolling with a sharp two-run double off Griffin Canning, slicing into the lead and jolting the crowd awake. Suddenly, the tone shifted from shock to suspense. Boston smelled blood, and they weren’t done.

Tyler O’Neill narrowed the gap even further in the seventh with a solo blast that had every seat shaking. In the inning of the game, Jarren Duran‘s RBI groundout narrowed the lead for Boston. As the top batters were up next and the crowd was captivated, the outcome of the game seemed uncertain and tense. The Angels had achieved a feat earlier. Now they needed to withstand Boston’s comeback efforts.

That’s where the bullpen delivered, and in the most pressure-packed moments of the night. Luis García was the first to answer the call in the eighth inning. With the Red Sox threatening and the Fenway crowd roaring, García kept his cool, stranding a runner to keep the lead intact. Then came Carlos Estévez for the ninth, and he made sure there would be no late-inning heartbreak for the Angels. He slammed the door with a flawless inning, no walks, no drama, just execution. The Angels showed more than firepower; they showed resilience.

In a game that could’ve easily unraveled, they walked away with not just a win, but a gut-check moment in their season.