TORONTO — The Angels wasted their weekend in Canada.
For three games, they made the least of their scoring opportunities, resulting in three straight one-run losses, two in extra innings.
The Angels lost 3-2 to the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday, leaving 12 runners on base and going 1 for 8 with runners in scoring position.
Their pitching was good enough to win each of the games, but the Angels (43-46) were never able to get a clutch hit to take the lead late in any of the games.
The Angels’ only runs on Friday came on a three-run homer, and they were otherwise hitless in nine at-bats with runners in scoring position. They were 2 for 12 with runners in scoring position on Saturday, including getting just one run apiece out of two early bases-loaded opportunities.
Add it up, and the Angels were 4 for 30 with runners in scoring position in the series.
On Sunday, they loaded the bases with one out in the fourth, and Gustavo Campero hit into a double play. They did get home one run in the fifth — on one of Taylor Ward’s three hits — but still left the bases loaded when Logan O’Hoppe struck out.
In the sixth, Nolan Schanuel hit a flyout to strand runners at the corners. Schanuel hit a half-swing groundout to leave two runners on in the eighth.
Starter Tyler Anderson was charged with three runs in five innings. Anderson gave up eight hits.
Anderson shut out the Blue Jays until he allowed Bo Bichette’s leadoff homer in the fourth. With two outs in the inning, Anderson gave up back-to-back hits to knock in another run.
A defensive mistake cost Anderson in the sixth. Alejandro Kirk hit a foul popup toward the Toronto dugout. O’Hoppe, the catcher and Chad Stevens, the third baseman, converged on the ball and got their feet tangled. Neither was able to make the catch and then Kirk singled, setting up the go-ahead run on Davis Schneider’s subsequent single.
More to come on this story.
