Mike Trout returned to the lineup after missing a game with a sore right foot and went 2-for-3 with a double and three RBIs as the Los Angeles Angels defeated the host Seattle Mariners 9-3 Thursday night.

Trout sat out Wednesday after fouling a ball off his foot Tuesday night at Oakland.

Cesar Puello and Kole Calhoun hit solo home runs for the Angels, who won their third in a row.

The Angels' Felix Pena (3-1) came on in the second after fellow right-hander Luis Garcia pitched the opening inning. Pena allowed three runs on three hits in 5 1/3 innings, with three walks and eight strikeouts.

Tim Beckham hit a two-run homer for Seattle, which lost its third straight. The Mariners dropped to 6-21 this month and clinched the worst May in franchise history.

The Angels scored in each of the first five innings in building an 8-0 lead.

Mariners rookie left-hander Yusei Kikuchi (3-3), who got his first major league victory against the Angels on April 20, lasted just 3 1/3 innings. He allowed six runs on 10 hits with two walks and no strikeouts.

Kikuchi walked the first two batters of the game before Albert Pujols grounded a run-scoring single to left.

Calhoun led off the second with a home run. Trout added a run-scoring single later in the inning to make it 3-0.

Puello homered in the third, a day after hitting his first major league home run.

The Angels scored twice more in the fourth to knock Kikuchi out of the game. Dustin Garneau and Luis Rengifo led off the inning with back-to-back singles. An out later, Trout hit a two-run double to left for a 6-0 lead.

Right-hander David McKay allowed two runs in the fifth, with only one earned after Beckham fumbled a potential double-play grounder at shortstop. Rengifo drove in both runs with a double.

Beckham finally got the Mariners on the scoreboard with his two-run shot in the bottom of the fifth.

Seattle scored in the seventh as Mitch Haniger led off with a walk and Jay Bruce hit a one-out double. Beckham drove in the run on a groundout.

Calhoun added a run-scoring single in the ninth for the final margin.

--Field Level Media