Angels left-hander Patrick Sandoval overcame a shaky debut inning, during which he seemed so overcome with adrenaline that his usual 92-94 mph fastball touched 96.
Angels starter Andrew Heaney, who has been hampered by shoulder inflammation since mid-July, is expected to play this weekend against the Red Sox.“It was unbelievable, something I could never imagine,” he said, a few minutes after taking photos on the field with about a dozen family members. “You dream of that growing up. I got to take the mound for my hometown team.”
If not for such a calamitous beginning, Sandoval might have had a chance to leave his debut with a fonder memory.For the second time in four games, the Angels watched their usually reliable opener strategy go up in flames. Taylor Cole allowed six of the first seven batters he faced in the first inning to reach base. Five runs scored.
“This game is more mental than anything,” said the right-hander, who had allowed just one run in his last 14 innings before surrendering four in one-third of an inning as the opener in Friday’s 7-3 loss at Cleveland. “I think I went out there with a pretty good mental approach. Obviously I didn’t minimize the damage. That’s part of maturity. I need to grow and learn to keep it within a couple runs rather than turning it into a five-run outing. I just didn’t do the job.
Castillo struck out a career-high 13 in seven innings, underscoring a bigger problem for the Angels. They struck out nearly 24% of the time while stumbling last week, the 10th-highest rate in that span. Before that stretch, the Angels boasted one of the lowest strikeout rates in baseball.Limited to five hits — Trout’s 37th homer, Luis Rengifo’s fourth and Brian Goodwin’s 10th accounted for the damage — the Angels fell to two games below .500 for the first time since they were 38-40 on June 22.
“Guys [go] through stages of pressing at times when they feel like they’re not performing the way they believe they should,” Ausmus said. “I can’t say there’s not a guy here or there who’s pressing. But I actually thought our at-bats tonight against a really good pitcher were pretty good. Better at-bats than we’ve had recently. I thought that was a plus because Castillo has really good stuff, elite stuff.
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