ANAHEIM – At every baseball game for the past three seasons, these teen-age players have been the visitors. They have no home field, no clubhouse, no regular field where they can practice. They play with hand-me-down equipment and in donated cleats... »
ANAHEIM – Sixteen games into the season, little has gone the way the Angels expected. Include the lack of power production from their lineup to that list. Howie Kendrick's solo home run in the eighth inning of Sunday's 3-2 loss to the Orioles was... »
ANAHEIM – Mike Scioscia's ever-varying "Wheel O' Lineups" has caught a great deal of attention through the first 16 games of the season (in which he has used 14 different lineups).The real worrisome thing for the Angels, though, is the variety of... »
ANAHEIM – The Angels beat the Baltimore Orioles for the second consecutive night Saturday, 6-3, and they did it by achieving a first this season: a comeback. The Angels rallied from a 2-0 deficit with a five-run fifth inning, and Jered Weaver... »
ANAHEIM – This is not, most assuredly, the season to stage a home run hitting contest with Manny Ramirez. And yet, here we stand, 15 games into this promising, trumpeted new beginning, and Ramirez and Albert Pujols remain deadlocked. Zero apiece.... »
ANAHEIM – Howie Kendrick went 3 for 5 with three RBIs as the Angels snapped a three-game skid with a 6-3 victory over the AL East-leading Baltimore Orioles on Friday night at Angel Stadium. Right-hander Jerome Williams (1-0) got the victory,... »
ANAHEIM – Jerry Dipoto's first personnel moves as Angels GM were a pair of trades (acquiring Chris Iannetta and jettisoning Jeff Mathis). But he has been making a trade ever since, swapping payroll flexibility for a measure of cost certainty and a... »
ANAHEIM – Well, it isn't the socks. If the Angels were looking for a wardrobe malfunction to explain their sluggish start to the season, they still have plenty of uniform pieces to try. The classic "high-socks" look didn't work as a slump-buster... »
ANAHEIM – The Machine is running low on power. Thirteen games and 54 at-bats into his career with the Angels, Albert Pujols has yet to hit his first home run in his new uniform. It is the longest he has gone into a season without hitting his first... »
ANAHEIM – It took five months but Angels GM Jerry Dipoto turned a double play. The Angels made it official Thursday afternoon, announcing an agreement with shortstop Erick Aybar on a contract extension. He joins double-play partner Howie Kendrick... »
ANAHEIM – The Angels couldn't solve Bartolo Colon. And now they're staring at a six-game deficit to Texas in the AL West after only a dozen games. Colon pitched eight superb innings and got an early cushion thanks to a first-inning three-run homer... »
ANAHEIM – The Angels and shortstop Erick Aybar are "very close" to a contract extension that will keep him from hitting the free-agent market after the season, the team said Wednesday. "There are a few details still to be ironed out, but we're very... »
ANAHEIM – The troubled bullpen bent and then broke again Tuesday night as the Angels gave up a one-run lead in the eighth inning and lost to the Oakland Athletics, 5-3, at Angel Stadium. Right-handed reliever Kevin Jepsen (0-1, 14.54 ERA) entered... »
ANAHEIM – Eleven games into the Angels season, Mark Trumbo, Alberto Callaspo and Maicer Izturis know the drill: They show up at the ballpark, check the starting lineup pinned by the clubhouse entrance, lock in on who's playing third base and... »
ANAHEIM – Kendrys Morales circled the bases and touched home. Gingerly. Morales hit a three-run home run in the first inning, his first homer since his fateful grand slam on May 29, 2010, and the Angels breezed past the Oakland A's, 6-0, Monday... »
