ANAHEIM — On a day that the Angels had a chance to build some momentum by winning back-to-back series for the first time in nearly a month, they instead played a fundamental mess of a game.
The Angels made mistakes in the field and on the bases in a 7-3 loss to the Baltimore Orioles on Sunday.
A day after the Angels (16-23) played a clean game with good pitching, defense and hitting, the Angels didn’t have much of anything working on Sunday.
In the first, left-hander Tyler Anderson seemed to be out of the inning when he got Adley Rutschman to hit a routine fly ball to left. But Taylor Ward lost the ball in the sun, and it dropped behind him for an RBI triple.
Third baseman Yoán Moncada booted an easy grounder to start the fifth. That opened the door for the Orioles to score two unearned runs, taking a 3-2 lead.
Right-hander Connor Brogdon took the mound in the sixth, and he walked two of the first three batters he faced.
One scored on a wild pitch, and the second came home on a suicide squeeze.
The Angels also scuttled a chance at a big inning at the plate with poor fundamentals in the third inning.
With Moncada at second and Jorge Soler at first and one out, Ward lined a single into right field. Third base coach Bo Porter stopped Moncada, but Soler never slowed down as he rounded second. Soler and Moncada both ended up at third, and Soler was tagged out.
Logan O’Hoppe then grounded out, and the Angels came away from the inning with nothing.
At that point, the Angels had a 2-1 lead, so a couple more runs — and getting into the soft part of the Orioles bullpen — could have changed the trajectory of the game.
Instead, the left themselves no margin for error, and the defense let that lead get away a couple innings later.
Anderson was charged with three runs in his five innings, but he shouldn’t have allowed any.
Anderson remains one of the most positive storylines in an otherwise dismal start to the Angels’ season.
The 35-year-old has a 2.58 ERA. His 21.0% strikeout rate and 9.1% walk rate are both better than in either of his first two seasons with the Angels.
Matthew Lugo also provided a nice moment when he hit his first career homer as a pinch-hitter in the ninth inning. Lugo made his major league debut on Friday.
More to come on this story.
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