ANAHEIM -- Ramón Laureano is currently enjoying the longest hitting and on-base streak in MLB, and judging by the way he swung the bat on Tuesday night, those streaks might not be ending anytime soon.

Laureano’s impressive tear at the plate continued in the A’s 4-2 win over the Angels to snap a five-game losing streak. He reached base in all four of his plate appearances as a 2-for-2 day pushed his career-high hitting streak to 16 games and on-base streak to 23.

“It’s all about just trusting my instincts,” Laureano said of his recent success. “See and hit the ball, instead of just guessing what pitch is coming. That’s it.”

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Any pitcher who makes a mistake to Laureano these days is likely to suffer gravely, as Angels starter Griffin Canning found out in the sixth when he hung a 2-1 curveball over the heart of the plate. It was almost as if Laureano was anticipating the pitch, because he demolished it with an exit velocity of 106.9 mph and sent it well beyond the left-field wall at an estimated 403 feet for a two-run bomb, his eighth homer of the season.

There’s been nothing fluky about Laureano’s hitting streak. Seven of those games have been multihit efforts, and he’s recorded at least a double or home run in 11 of his past 13 games. After sitting with a .222 batting average at the start of the hitting streak, Laureano is now up to .264 after Tuesday night’s performance.

The second year in the Majors is usually the toughest for a young player, and that was certainly the case for Laureano early on. It began in Spring Training, when pitchers made a concerted effort to throw him fewer fastballs and more off-speed pitches after a breakout 2018 rookie campaign that saw the center fielder bat .288 over 48 games.

Pitchers were getting Laureano to bite on sliders early on in the season, which frustrated him because it was a problem he actually recognized in Spring Training. He began to make some adjustments to minimize his body movement at the plate in spring, and after sticking to the process, those have been paying off over the past month.

“I think everything was going the wrong way,” Laureano said. “My mechanics were going the wrong way. But I made changes and I’ve been myself. I’m laying off those sliders early and late in the count.”

Laureano navigated through a rough first month, but now seems to have mastered the counter to the change of attack from opposing pitchers.

“It was just a matter of time,” Laureano said. “It’s not overnight. It takes a long time and is frustrating, but that’s just the way it is. You have to accept it and keep moving on and wait for it.”

Save before the save

You couldn’t blame manager Bob Melvin if he was on the edge of his seat in the eighth. A’s relievers had been charged with the loss in four of the past five games entering the night, unable to hold either a lead or tie. Melvin went to Liam Hendriks over usual setup man Lou Trivino in the eighth, and while the right-hander found himself in a jam with runners on second and third, he kept a two-run lead intact with a scoreless frame before Blake Treinen’s flawless ninth to secure his 12th save of the year.

It was no easy task, with Angels sluggers Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani up in the inning. Hendriks induced a flyout of Trout and worked around a walk of Ohtani, who had already crushed a two-run homer off A’s starter Frankie Montas just two innings prior.

“That was big,” Melvin said. “They have [Albert] Pujols sitting over there. You never know how they’re going to use him in this situation. But [Liam] has got enough stuff to get a good lefty out, wasn’t going to let [Ohtani] beat him right there. We just gave Lou an extra day. Wanted to give him a day after the off-day.”

Montas bounces back

After allowing more than three earned runs for the first time this season in a start last week against the Angels, in what was his shortest outing of the year, Montas fared much better this time around. The right-hander’s only blemish was the homer surrendered to Ohtani in the sixth as he held the Angels to just two runs on four hits and a walk over six innings, with three strikeouts.

“I feel like the difference was today I was attacking and throwing more strikes,” said Montas, who issued a season-high five walks in his previous start against Los Angeles. “I think they were expecting me to be like last time when I wasn’t throwing a lot of strikes. They realized tonight was different and started swinging more.”

The homer surrendered to Ohtani may have come due to a bit of fatigue built up in the at-bat prior. Montas engaged in a serious battle with Trout that featured eight foul balls. On the 13th pitch, Montas hit Trout with a splitter.

“He’s a tough hitter,” Montas said of Trout. “I wish I didn’t hit him on the pitch. I wanted to strike him out. He’s a tough hitter, I have to give him credit.”