The Herd with Colin Cowherd
1992 NL Rookie of the Year Eric Karros talks about the Dodgers' slow start, Don Mattingly's status, Albert Pujols' contract and more.
Could the Sox seek third base help? 
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Baseball Tonight looks at the biggest surprises in Major League Baseball this season.
Albert Pujols and Mike Trout both homer as the Angels top the Royals for their fifth straight win.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Mike Trout and Albert Pujols hit solo home runs, and Mark Trumbo hit a two-run shot to help the Los Angeles Angels beat the Kansas City Royals 5-4 Thursday night.
Joe Blanton got his first victory of the season after going 0-7 in his first nine starts. He held the Royals to seven hits and two runs in 6 1/3 innings. Trumbo put the Angels up 5-2 in the eighth with his team-leading 11th homer.
Ervin Santana (3-4), who spent 12 seasons in the Angels' organization before being traded during the offseason to the Royals, struck out eight without a walk, but allowed five runs and eight hits -- four of which were homers. Chris Iannetta hit one in the fifth.
The Royals scored on ground outs by Alex Gordon and Mike Moustakas.
Stephania Bell joins Michele Steele to discuss key injuries in fantasy baseball, including the Angels' Jered Weaver.
Look at the hot-and-cold Angels. Behold the listing Dodgers, who seem about to get Don Mattingly fired if his verbal bombs don't first. And the Toronto Blue Jays? Cover your eyes. The Blue Jays' latest rebuilding strategy was to remake their club by defibrillating a significant portion of the dead-on-arrival 2012 Marlins and adding Melky Cabrera, a man whose run at the batting title was fluffed up by PED use. Now look. So far, the 2013 Toronto Marlins have been dead on arrival, too.
But at least Toronto added baseball's poet-in-residence, R.A. Dickey, who excels at putting things in perspective. "We're somewhat of a dysfunctional team right now," Dickey said a couple of weeks ago, after being booed off the mound.
The same feeling applies when you watch the Dodgers' and Angels' grand experiments, too. There's still time to pull it together. But all three teams have lurched around so far like Frankensteins slapped and sutured together out of disparate parts.
"It's a bit of a force," Dickey allowed of his Jays.
It's important to acknowledge injuries have hurt all three clubs. But that's not all that has gone wrong.
Tony La Russa works as a special adviser for the commissioner's office, not out of a dugout anymore. But the Hall of Fame-bound former Cardinals, A's and White Sox manager says generally speaking there are certain things about underperforming and overperforming clubs that "just yell out at you, that just scream out at you" no matter what your vantage point is, if you know what to look for.
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C.J. Wilson struck out 10 over eight strong innings to lead the Angels to a 7-1 win over the Mariners.
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- C.J. Wilson struck out 10 in eight innings, Josh Hamilton had a two-run single and the Los Angeles Angels beat Seattle 7-1 on Wednesday to hand the Mariners their season-worst sixth straight loss.
Wilson (4-3) allowed a run and six hits in his longest outing since June 8, 2012, when he also went eight innings in a 7-2 interleague victory at Colorado. The left-hander won for the first time since May 1 at Oakland after losing his previous three starts, including back-to-back 3-0 decisions against Chris Sale of the Chicago White Sox.
Brandon Maurer (2-6) gave up seven runs and 11 hits in three innings for Seattle.
