HOUSTON -- Josh Hamilton turned from his locker and saw a group of reporters waiting to talk to him after Saturdays game against Houston. "Im not answering any questions about hitting," he said. That was just fine after the defensive show the Angels struggling slugger put on in Los Angeles 7-2 win over the Houston Astros. Joe Blanton pitched seven sharp innings, and Howie Kendrick and Chris Iannetta both homered to lead the Angels. Alberto Callaspo and Erick Aybar drove in two runs apiece in a big fourth inning, but it was Hamilton who everyone was talking about. He likely robbed Houston of two home runs with his glove. "Through this whole struggle on the offensive side with him trying to find his comfort zone in the box, hes played great defence for us," Los Angeles manager Mike Scioscia said. "Great range, today he took away a couple home runs. Josh made them look easy." Blanton (2-10) tied season lows with three hits and two runs, pitching six scoreless innings before a two-run home run by Brett Wallace in the seventh. He appreciated the work of Hamilton perhaps more than anybody. "They were both great catches," Blanton said. "Short field over there, he played the wall great, timed his jumps perfectly, made two outstanding plays." Kendricks solo homer came in the fifth and Iannetta tacked on two with a home run in the eighth. Houston starter Jordan Lyles (4-3) was done in by a four-run fourth inning by the Angels. He allowed five hits, four runs and walked two in four innings for his first loss against Los Angeles in three starts. Blanton was perfect through 3 1-3 innings before a double by Jose Altuve. Altuve advanced to third on a wild pitch before a two-out walk to Chris Carter. Blanton escaped the jam when Hamilton leaped to grab a fly ball hit by J.D. Martinez at the wall in right field. It was the second time Martinez hit the ball hard and came away empty. Mike Trout caught another drive from him on the warning track in left-centre in the second inning. Hamiltons second nifty defensive play came when he jumped and reached over the short wall in right field to catch a ball hit by Matt Dominguez in the seventh inning. Hamilton tumbled to the ground after the catch while Dominguez stood motionless and stared at him in disbelief. He didnt think the first one would have been a home run, but was certain that the second one would have gone out. Hamilton, who joined the Angels this season after signing a five-year, $125 million contract, is hitting just .221 with 10 homers this season. He was disappointed in a span earlier this season when he wasnt hitting well and he was struggling on defence. "If you dont do it at the plate you want to do it in the field, and during that stretch I wasnt doing it either way," he said. "I felt like I wasnt. But I feel better. Everybody keeps telling me to go out and play and have fun. Just relax." He did just that on Saturday, and said making plays like that "are favourite things for me, more fun than hitting a home run." Mark Trumbo singled to get things going in the fourth inning. Lyles then started to struggle with control, plunking Howie Kendrick before walking Hamilton to load the bases. Callaspos single scored Trumbo and Kendrick to make it 2-0. Things continued to go downhill for Lyles when he hit Peter Bourjos with a pitch. Aybars two-run single pushed the lead to 4-0, but he was out trying to stretch it into a double. Lyles finally escaped the inning when Trout lined out to Brandon Barnes in centre field. "I think it is one of those things where you try to make the perfect pitch, and you are falling behind and you try to make a better pitch and a better pitch and a better pitch. He could not get his fastball command back," Houston manager Bo Porter said of Lyles in the fourth inning. Kendrick hit his ninth homer of the season to the seats in right field off Josh Fields with two outs in the fifth to make it 5-0. Carter walked with no outs in the seventh before Wallace hit his first homer of the season with one out to the Crawford Boxes in left field to make it 5-2. Bourjos bruised his right wrist when he was hit by a pitch, and he left the game in the bottom of the fourth inning. Trout took over in centre field for Bourjos, and J.B. Shuck entered the game in left field. Bourjos said he was sore after the game. Scioscia said he would have X-rays on the wrist as a precaution. NOTES: Houston reliever Travis Blackley shoved Shuck when he tagged him in the back on a rundown eighth inning. He regretted the move soon afterward. "I never try to be malicious toward anyone," he said. "It was one of those things where the heat of the moment kind of got me. I dont mean anything by it." ... The series wraps up on Sunday when Los Angeles left-hander C.J. 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Lets face it: What doesnt the guy theyve taken to calling Coach Oeaux around these parts do furiously?Granted, it was just one game -- Orgerons first as LSUs head football coach -- but it was the most complete game the Tigers have played in some time: a 42-7 beatdown of Missouri that saw LSU gain 634 total yards -- the most against an SEC opponent in school history.It was a magical night all the way around for the entire Orgeron family. His oldest son, Tyler Spotts-Orgeron, was on the LSU sideline as a member of the recruiting staff. In the second quarter, Spotts-Orgeron came charging up the sideline toward his dad to tell him that his younger brother and one of Orgerons twin sons, Parker Orgeron, had just scored his first touchdown at McNeese State. They hugged excitedly, the first of many bear hugs applied by Orgeron on a gorgeous Saturday night in Tiger Stadium.As Orgeron made the rounds on the crowded field after the game, he spotted the man who will ultimately decide whether Orgeron will be just a temporary fix or the guy to lead LSU back to national relevance after Les Miles was fired two Sundays ago.What do you say, Joe? Orgeron bellowed to LSU athletic director Joe Alleva, who smiled and slapped Orgeron on the shoulder.Thats one down, Alleva shot back.How many more Coach Oeaux truly needs to fulfill his coaching dream on a permanent basis is anybodys guess, but good luck in getting him to refer to himself as LSUs interim head coach.Listen, this thing here, Im going to get it, Orgeron told ESPN.com on Sunday morning while sitting in the office at the LSU football complex formerly occupied by Miles. If we do what we need to do, I feel in my heart Im going to get it. If I dont, its because we didnt do well enough and I dont deserve it.Really, we control our own destiny, and I feel like we have a job here, and we have a right to earn it. If we earn it, we ought to get it. If we dont earn it, I get that. I know what the expectations are here. Theyre my expectations, the same expectations I had growing up in this state and cheering for the Tigers.Orgeron, 55, has been on some of college footballs biggest stages. Hes used to the glare, the pressure and the raw emotion that engulfs the sport, but hes never had a job that means as much to him as the one hes fighting to keep right now.Hes back home, back among his people and back where he thought he would only be in his wildest dreams as a kid growing up in Larose, a small Cajun town in the Lafourche Parish. This is a coach who spent his childhood with his family huddled around a radio listening to LSU games and whose love of the Tigers runs so deep that his father told Bear Bryant thanks but no thanks when the legendary coach wanted to recruit his son. (More on that in a bit.)I think everybody in Tiger Stadium enjoyed themselves. I know I sure did, Orgeron said. I want to connect them all, make this state connected. [Saturday] night, you could feel the whole state come together, and Im part of them. I know it. I get it. Ive been there.They also understand each other. With Orgeron, its not the Tigers, but the Tigahs. Similarly, he also understands that nothing is guaranteed past this season. Hes been down this road before at USC in 2013, when he took over for the fired Lane Kiffin and guided the Trojans to a 6-2 record.But that wasnt good enough for former USC athletic director Pat Haden, who opted for Steve Sarkisian instead. Orgeron sat out the 2014 season from coaching and spent it in Mandeville, Louisiana with his family, but Miles scooped him up as defensive line coach at LSU for the 2015 season.The difference is they want me here at LSU, Orgeron said. I never felt in my heart that they wanted me at USC until the very end, and then Haden pulled the plug. I thought all the time I was fighting an uphill battle. They always saw me more as a stopgap.Orgeron said Alleva gave him full license to do whatever he needed to get the program headed back in the right direction.And hes never called me the interim head coach, Orgeron said.Its a given Alleva is going to look around, and Florida States Jimbo Fisher and Houstons Tom Herman will be high on his list. But a person close to the situation told ESPN.com that Alleva is also serious about giving Orgeron legitimate consideration if the Tigers finish strong this season and continue to look as sharp and as re-energized as they did against Missouri, particularly on offense.If they beat Alabama [on Nov. 5], they might sign him to a new contract before midnight, a source told ESPN.com.Its no secret Miles undoing was an unimaginative offense and his unwillingness to adapt. Against Missouri, LSU came out in four wide receivers on its first offensive series under new offensive coordinator Steve Ensminger and showed several new wrinkles and formations along the way before ultimately pounding Missouri with the running game.The only thing I told Steve was not to come out in the I-formation on that first series, Orgeron said with one of his vintage baritone laughs.Orgeron also overhauled the practice schedule during the week and drew from his previous experience at USC. The Tigers practices were shortened, but there was an added emphasis on a quicker tempo. Orgeron emphasized more individual work with first-team offensive linemen going up against first-team defensive linemen, for example.The players love it. We call it, Competition Tuesday, and we have our best going against our best individually and not as much team stuff, Orgeron said. I got that from [former USC coach] Pete [Carroll]. I just wanted to change it up and do things differently. Every day has a new theme, and not everything runs into each other.Orgerons phone blew up after the game. Really, it did all week, with the homefolk wanting him to know how proud of him they were. One of his closest pals, Bobbby Hebert, grew up with Orgeron on the Bayou; they were teammates on South Lafourche High Schools state championship team in 1977.dddddddddddd. Hebert, now a New Orleans radio personality, went on to be a Pro Bowl quarterback in the NFL and helped guide the New Orleans Saints to their first playoff appearance.Even now, with some of the experiences Ive had in football, Saturday night in Tiger Stadium is the end-all job, Hebert said. When you grow up where we did, its hard to explain the connection you feel with LSU. I mean, it was sacrilegious, if you had the ability, to even think about leaving the state and not playing for LSU.To Hebert and everybody else Orgeron grew up with, he will always be BeBe (pronounced Bay-Bay). His father, who died four years ago after a bout with cancer, was also known as BeBe. Orgeron is still called Junior by his mother, whos known affectionately as Coco and wasnt at the Missouri game because she was at the McNeese State game watching her twin grandsons, Parker and Cody.The most emotional Orgeron got Saturday night was thinking about his dad and how proud he would have been to see his son leading the Tigers out of the tunnel on a Saturday night at Tiger Stadium. Even Sunday morning, as Orgerons thoughts drifted back to his dad, his eyes moistened.I felt him there with me, and I talk to him every morning, said a red-eyed Orgeron as he nodded his head proudly. He loved LSU. We all loved LSU and listened to all of the games on the radio. There were no other schools.And when he says there were no other schools, he means it. Orgeron was a highly recruited lineman coming out of South Lafourche, and Alabamas Bear Bryant was interested in recruiting him. Orgeron still remembers Bryant calling the house one night and talking to his father.Coach Bryant wanted to come visit me, but my father told him not to bother, that I was going to LSU, Orgeron said. Thats just how it was.Orgeron only lasted two weeks at LSU after growing homesick and returning to Larose. The very next day, his father put him to work digging ditches as part of the elder Orgerons crew with the local telephone company.It was humiliating for Orgeron, who said people would drive by in cars and yell insults to him for having the audacity to leave LSU before his career ever had a chance to get started.Theyre yelling, You f---ing pansy. You couldnt make it, recalled Orgeron, who still winces when he thinks about it. Talk about going from the penthouse to the outhouse. You know what my daddy said? Id look up at him when theyd be yelling at me, and hed turn around and say, Dig!Orgeron wound up reuniting with Hebert at Northwestern State, but he always regretted not giving LSU more of a shot as a player.Thats always been in the back of my mind, Orgeron said. I felt like there was unfinished business.Well, heres his chance.The schedule is brutal the rest of the way, starting with a trip to No. 18 Florida this Saturday and four more games against ranked foes, including No. 1 Alabama at Tiger Stadium. The Crimson Tide have won five in a row over the Tigers.If he beats Alabama, there shouldnt even be a coaching search, said Hebert, whose son, T-Bob Hebert, was an offensive lineman on LSUs 2011 SEC championship team under Miles.Orgeron hasnt been bashful about making changes from the Miles regime. But hes also been extremely respectful of Miles. Orgeron said he talked with Miles last week a couple of times, including on Saturday before the gameI just wanted him to know that this was his team, the team he recruited and that we were going to represent, Orgeron said. Hes been great and said he would be pulling for us.The state of Louisiana is pulling for Orgeron, even with higher profile names such as Fisher and Herman floating around as the most likely candidates to replace Miles past this season.Josh Pitre, who went to the same high school as Orgeron and is a diehard LSU fan, sported a shirt at Saturdays game that read: Orgeron/Aranda 16. Make LSU Great Again!It would be great if he got the job, Pitre said. Hes a Cajun, speaks our language, eats the same food we do, grew up in the same culture. We all identify with him. Hes one of us. I think all of Louisiana would be proud if he got the job.Jacob Hester, one of the most popular players on LSUs 2007 national championship team under Miles, is also in Orgerons corner.Were fortunate in a situation like this because the fans are still in it, the players are still in it and Coach Orgeron is a huge part of that, said Hester, who played six seasons in the NFL and is now a member of LSUs radio broadcast team. Even before I had a relationship with Coach O and got to know him, people around here who knew him always said that if he ever got to the point where he was the head coach at LSU that hed never let it go.Its going to be interesting to see what he can do.The LSU players are also on board.All I know is that this is who we are. This is what the LSU Tigers are supposed to look like, LSU defensive tackle Davon Godchaux said following LSUs dominant performance against Missouri. Were just glad to have Coach O as our head coach.With last week being so hectic, all the added responsibilities as head coach and the changes he wanted to implement, Orgeron said it wasnt until the drive back to his hotel suite on campus with his wife, Kelly, late Saturday night that it sunk in what lay in front of him.Its the coaching opportunity hes grinded for all these years -- crisscrossing the country as an assistant, not getting it done (or enough time) as Ole Miss head coach, learning from the mistakes he made at Ole Miss in trying to be too hands-on -- and now staring his dream job squarely in the face.Man, it was surreal driving back after the game, because I couldnt let myself go there during the week, Orgeron said. Think about it. A boy from South Lafourche is the head coach at LSU. Its like a dream. Even Hebert was like, Man, is this real?Its real, all right, and about to get even more real if Coach Oeaux and the Tigahs have their way. 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