TAYLOR WARD is leading the Angels in home runs (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu).

“Going … going …. gone!”

“That dog will hunt!”

“He’s back to the warning track … to the wall … home run!”

Yes, the “home run call” by the announcer is among the most stirring and iconic moments in baseball. Anyone who’s ever hit a home run – whether it be in Little League, beer leagues or The Show – knows what that feels like.

The Los Angeles Angels are hitting a bunch of home runs, and they – and their fans – are feeling pretty good about it.

After sweeping the Dodgers – defending World Series champs, I might add– and then beating the not-quite-as awesome Athletics, the Halos had won four straight and moved within an eyelash of climbing out of the American League West basement.

How have they done it? The classic “big play” of the home run. The four-bagger. The dinger. The tater. The round-tripper.

As a team, the Angels are only batting .221, putting them 27th among 30 MLB teams. But they’ve hammered 67 home runs, tied for third with the Arizona Diamondbacks.

The question is this: is a home run better than four singles? I mean, each represents four bases.

But the homer always brings in at least one run, while four hits is not a guarantee of a score, unless they are consecutive and not always even then.

The “Golden Age” of Angel baseball was the “small ball” era of Mike Scioscia. But if the Angels could boost their team batting average to, say, .240 or so, they could dream of – least – a Bronze Age.