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The Angels and Red Sox were even at 4′s and took the game into the 12th before Erick Aybar drove in the go-ahead run to give the Angels another shot at a series comeback. The Angels loaded the bases off Josh Beckett in the first, but could only s…

The Angels came back to tie it up after the Red Sox had an early 4-0 lead, but K-Rod gave up two in the ninth to put the Angels in an 0-2 hole for the series. Boston scored four in the first, but the Angels rallied back throughout the game to tie it a …

The offense could only rally for one run as Jason Bay’s two-run homerun in the sixth off Lackey put the Red Sox ahead for good. The Angels managed six hits off Jon Lester’s seven innings, but only scored one, in the third off Torii Hunter&#…

After dropping the first two games to the Rangers, Joe Saunders and the Angels them out on Sunday to get their 100th and final regular season win. John Lackey was roughed up on Friday night, being tagged for a career-high 10 runs on 12 hits before bein…

The Angels took the last game of the series with two ninth-inning go-ahead runs to get the series victory. Vlad led the offense, going 2 for 4 with 3 runs and 3 RBI with both hits being homers. The Angels trailed for the first five frames, scoring a ru…

The Angels have now taken two of three from the Mariners with a 6-5 win on Wednesday. Their magic number to clinch home field advantage throughout the series is now three, and they are two wins away from the triple-digit mark. After the Mariners scored…

With a 2-1 win over the Mariners in Seattle, the Angels have now won five straight, with only three road games left in Seattle for the season. The Mariners got on board first with one in the third, but Vlad tied it up in the fourth with a solo homerun,…

The Angels completed the sweep of the Rangers on Sunday with John Lackey tossing six shutout innings to get win number 12.
The offense put up 11 hits, and took an early lead with two runs in the first off Teixeira’s homerun. Anderson then drove in a run in the fifth before Sean Rodriguez jacked a [...]

The Angels and Mariners were even heading into the ninth but Mike Napoli blasted a two-run walkoff homerun for the 5-3 win.
The Angels were held to five hits but managed to get five runs, led by Mike Napoli who totaled two hits and four RBI. Robb Quinlan drove in the first run in the second [...]

The Angels got a 7-4 win over the Mariners in the first game of the series as K-Rod notched his 57th save to tie the single-season record.
Garret Anderson got the Angels on board with an RBI-single in the third. Wood followed suit with one in the fourth before the Angels rallied for five runs in [...]

The Angels clinched their series with a 4-2 win over the Yankees….Even more, they clinched the AL West, the earliest to do so in franchise history, even without the usual Chone Figgins (sore elbow), Mark Teixeira (fever), and Torii Hunter (suspended for two games for fight with Ivan Rodriguez).
The Yankees put up an early 2-0 [...]

The Angels dropped the second game to the Yankees to split the series and hold their magic number at two before tomorrow’s day game rubber match.
Maybe the lineup was thrown off by not having the usual Chone Figgins batting leadoff, but the Angels were held to one run on seven hits. Yankees starter Alfredo Aceves, [...]

The Angels returned to LA and after the Yankees put up a quick 1-0 lead in the first, they answered back with 12 runs on 13 hits for the first win of the series. Their magic number now stands at two.
Garret Anderson, Vlad, and Sean Rodriguez each had two hits apiece while Brandon Wood [...]

The Sox were even with the Angels 2-2 until Garret Anderson drove a pinch-hit sac fly for the go-ahead run to give Joe Saunders his 15th win.
John Danks held the Angels scoreless until the sixth, where they tied things up with two runs. Teixeira got on board with a double and took third on Vlad’s [...]

The Angels put up an early lead but the White Sox came back to tie it in the ninth and took the game to 15 innings in the 7-6 loss.
Chone Figgins scored the first Angel run in the first when he doubled and touched home on Teixeira’s sac fly. Figgins then blasted a solo homerun [...]

The White Sox notched seven runs in the first three innings and went on to beat the Angels 10-2 in the first game of the series.
The Sox already had a 9-0 lead by the time the Angels got on board in the seventh. They knocked in two, one scoring on an error before Garret Anderson [...]

The Angels scored six of their seven runs in the first three innings, while Ervin Santana held the Tigers to one run in the 7-1 win.
Gary Matthews Jr. led things off with a double before Mark Teixeria drove him in for the first run of the game. They scored another in the second before putting [...]

The Angels piled on 15 hits and had a two-run lead by the fifth, but the Tigers came back to rally off Jose Arrendondo and Justin Speier for the win.
Garret Anderson, Mark Teixeria (playing DH), and Vlad all went 3 for 5, with Teixeira notching three RBI. Teixeria gave the Angels their first run in [...]

On Friday night, the Angels had a one-run lead after five but Jose Arrendondo allowed two runs to score as the Angels lost 3-2.
Teixeira went 3 for 4, including an RBI-single in the first to put the Angels up by one, a lead they would hold until the fourth. Juan Rivera then hit a solo [...]

The Angels snapped their win streak at five with a 12-inning loss on Wednesday. The Angels split the two-game series and still have an unbeaten streak of 20 series to AL teams.
The offense was led by Maicer Izturis, who was 3 for 5 with an RBI, and Teixeira, who was 3 for 6 with 3 [...]

After a day off and weekend of sweeping the Yankees, the Angels took the first game of a two-game set with the Mariners to move their win streak to five games.
Seattle put up three runs in the third but the Angels erased their lead in the fifth with four runs of their own off former [...]

The Angels took a tie into the ninth and Chone Figgins delieved the winning hit to get a sweep of the Yankees, their first time sweepin the Bronx Bombers at home since 1995.
Coming into the game, Andy Pettitte was 17-1 in starts when his team is in danger of a sweep. The Angels didn’t hand [...]

The Angels put up 14 hits and 11 runs as they beat the Yankees on Saturday to clinch the series.
Dan Giese held the Angels to three hits and a run through six innings before they exploded to tally ten runs in the seventh and eighth innings. Mark Teixiera accounted for the only run scored off [...]

The Angels took their first from the visting Yankees on Friday night 10-5 and have now won three of their last four.
The Angels pounded 17 hits to get their 10 runs, with four each by Howie Kendrick and Torii Hunter and the 3-4-5 combo going 9 for 15 with 6 RBI and 7 runs scored. [...]

Vlad tallied four RBI while Santana pitched his way to lucky win #13 as the Angels beat the Orioles 9-4 in the rubber match of the series.
The Angels scored all nine runs in the first four innings, and had a 4-0 lead by the second. The Angels put up three in the first off Vlad’s [...]

Chris Waters held the Angels to one hit through eight innings in his big league debut while the Orioles went on to score three off Jon Garland for the win.
This is the first time all season that the Angels have been shut out at home. It is also the fourth time that they have faced a pitcher in [...]

The Orioles came back to score four runs in the ninth off K-Rod but the Angels walked in the winning run in the bottom half for the win.
The Angels were even with the O’s at ten hits, and scored five of their six runs in the first four innings. They took a 1-0 lead in [...]

Mark Teixeira put the Angels ahead by a run with a grand slam in the eighth, but the Angels spoiled their own come-from-behind attempt by giving the Yankees six unearned runs in the bottom half of the inning as the Yanks went on to win 14-9.
The Angels had a 5-0 lead after the fourth after [...]

The Angels beat the Orioles 11-6 on Saturday to clinch the series and give them their ninth win in the last ten.
The Angels took an early lead again with two in the first off Torii Hunter’s two-RBI single, the first of five RBI that Hunter tallied for the night. The O’s took a short one-run [...]

The Angels extended their win streak to four by heading into Baltimore and taking the first two from the Orioles, a 6-5 win on Friday followed by an 11-6 win on Saturday.
Joe Saunders, pitching not too far from his hometown, earned the win as the Angels escaped with the one-run win after K-Rod gave up [...]