Anaheim, Calif. ? Mike Trout hit a tying two-run homer, Yunel Escobar put the Angels ahead with a solo shot in the sixth inning and Andrelton Simmons also went deep to power Los Angeles to a 4-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday night.

Escobar, the Angels’ leadoff hitter, drove Chris Young’s 3-1 pitch to center field for his third homer of the season leading off the sixth to put the Angels ahead 3-2. He had four hits in Tuesday night’s 9-4 victory.

Simmons ended the scoring in the seventh with his first homer as an Angel. His other 31 came with the Atlanta Braves, who sent the two-time Gold Glove shortstop to the Angels in a trade for Erick Aybar in November.

Fernando Salas (1-1) got the victory in relief and Joe Smith got three outs for his second save in as many chances as the Angels swept the three-game series.

Nick Tropeano pitched 5 1-3 innings for the Angels, allowing two runs and eight hits with six strikeouts.

Eric Hosmer hit a two-run homer off the 25-year-old right-hander in the first, extending his hitting streak to a career-best 17 games. Tropeano departed after giving up his third walk of the game with the score tied 2-all.

Salas came in and Paulo Orlando greeted him with a single. Jarrod Dyson followed with a fielder’s choice grounder that put runners at the corners, and Dyson got into scoring position by stealing second. But Alcides Escobar grounded out to third.

Young (1-4) allowed three runs and three hits over 5 2-3 innings. The 35-year-old right-hander has allowed at least one home run in each of his first five starts.

Tropeano, who came in having allowed two home runs in his first 75 1-3 innings in the big leagues, saw his first pitch to Hosmer end up in the rock pile in left-center following a one-out single by Mike Moustakas.

But Trout erased that deficit in the fourth with his fifth homer, driving an 0-2 pitch over the trees in center field after a leadoff single by Rafael Ortega. The 2014 AL MVP is hitting .353 over his last 14 games after starting the season 5 for 27.

SPIKE MARKS

Angels: Nine of Trout’s 37 career hits against Kansas City have been home runs. … The Angels have produced no more than four runs in 17 of the team’s first 21 games. . Tropeano picked off Dyson at first base with runners at the corners to end the fourth.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Angels: LHP Andrew Heaney, whose flexor muscle strain during his first start of the season is the reason Tropeano was recalled from Triple-A Salt Lake on April 7, will look at other opinions on the slow-healing injury. . LF Daniel Nava will work out in Arizona during the team’s six-game road trip.

UP NEXT

Royals: RHP Kris Medlen (1-1, 6.00 ERA) gets the assignment for the opener of a three-game series at Seattle. It will be his first appearance against the Mariners, one of four teams the seven-year veteran has yet to face along with the Angels, Rangers and Braves, the club that drafted him in 2006.

Angels: LHP Hector Santiago (2-0) opposes Colby Lewis in the opener of a three-game set at Arlington, Texas. The Angels have won each of Santiago’s last 10 starts including his no-decision on April 7 at the “Big A,” when they pulled out a 4-3 win on Albert Pujols’ bases-loaded walkoff single in the ninth.