The beleaguered Angels were ill-equipped to stop Cleveland’s running game Friday.
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The Angels lost their final game of the last homestand and then all nine on this three-city trip, marking the first time since May 1969 that they had a winless trip of at least nine games.
After that, his only trouble was with Mike Trout, whom he walked two more times.
Miller pitched the seventh and eighth innings and Allen the ninth.
“That was fun”, Indians manager Terry Francona said.
Los Angeles Angels starting pitcher Jered Weaver delivers against the Cleveland Indians during the first inning of a baseball game Sunday, Aug. 14, 2016, in Cleveland.
“Sometimes the best thing to do is stay out of the way and let him go do his thing because that was phenomenal”, Francona said.
Miller’s day ended when he struck out Albert Pujols, leading to the ejection of the Angels slugger. Carlos Santana, on second after reaching on a fielder’s choice, rounded third and tried to tie the game but was thrown out by Pennington to end the inning. Indians LF Michael Brantley will undergo season-ending shoulder surgery on Monday.2.
“It’s still sorting itself out”, he said.
Pestano, who had been a dependable reliever in previous years but was on the decline, pitched just 21 1/3 innings for the Angels.
The Los Angeles Angels haven’t lost this many in a row in this millennium.
Angels lefty Tyler Skaggs and catcher Geovany Soto gave up the first seven steals. The best of the three was Matt Shoemaker, who gave up five runs and 12 hits in six innings Saturday night.
He gave up a leadoff single to Jose Ramirez. That’s the longest by an Indians player since Kipnis hit in 20 straight in June 2015. It looks like Santana avoided a concussion, which is good news.
Contributions from all over: Eight Tribe starters bagged at least one hit, four scored at least two runs and four drove in at least two. With that hit, Guyer in his career versus Skaggs was 3-for-3 with two home runs.After Carrasco retired the side in order in the second, the Angels took a 3-2 lead in the third.
The start of the game was delayed by rain for 1 hour, 38 minutes.
And it was one-way traffic from there as the Indians hit the scoreboard in the next four innings straight to put the result beyond doubt and improve to 64-48. He’s played in only 11 games after having surgery in November.
Lindor stole second in the sixth with Deolis Guerra pitching.
The dugout can be a very scary place, as Indians DH Carlos Santana found out Thursday. Santana was back in the dugout wearing a batting helmet Friday and scrambled out of the way of another foul ball in the first inning.
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The Indians and the Angels both average 9.02 hits per game.
