ANAHEIM — As José Suarez trudged from the mound to the dugout, Angel Stadium fans let him know how they felt about the start to his season by showering him with boos. The Angels’ left-hander entered in a close game and turned it into a not-so-close game, allowing four runs in the sixth inning of the Angels’ 6-5 loss to the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday afternoon. Suarez now has a 9.20 ERA in 14⅔ innings over eight games. “What I’m seeing from him is he’s just got to pound the strike zone, make some better pitches,” Manager Ron Washington said. “He’s on our roster. He’s going to have to be use ..read more

ANAHEIM — Brandon Drury continues to deal with a maddening hamstring injury that he’s trying not to make any worse. “It’s definitely frustrating,” Drury said on Wednesday, the sixth game in the last nine that he’s been out. “I want to be out there and help the team and start driving these runners in, but I know that’s coming. For now, I want to get this hamstring feeling right so I can be out there full force.” Drury first felt an issue in Boston the weekend of April 12-14, and it got serious enough for him to come out of the game on April 15 at Tampa Bay. Manager Ron Washington didn’t put him ..read more

ANAHEIM — In the wake another mediocre offensive performance in the Angels’ fifth straight loss, Manager Ron Washington promised that they were doing the work that was bound to turn their fortune eventually. It happened a day later. The Angels got production from throughout the lineup – including a first-inning home run from leadoff man Mike Trout – in a 7-4 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Tuesday night. “I hope what we did tonight is something that we can just grow on,” Washington said. “It’s just a matter of time and we did it tonight off of a pretty good pitcher (Grayson Rodriguez). S ..read more

ANAHEIM — Robert Stephenson said his elbow felt “perfectly fine,” up until the moment that it didn’t. It was the second pitch of his rehab outing on April 13. The Angels reliever threw a slider and he could tell something was wrong. “It just came out weird,” Stephenson said on Tuesday, the first time he’d spoken to the media since the injury. “I just felt it right when I threw it. I tried to throw a couple more pitches after that, but just something felt wrong. I didn’t expect it to be as bad as it ended up.” It ended up with Stephenson needing Tommy John surgery. He said he’ll have the surger ..read more

ANAHEIM — Angels hitters showed some signs of life on Monday night, but not enough to snap their losing streak. The Angels ran their scoreless streak to 18 innings on their way to a 4-2 loss to the Baltimore Orioles, their fifth straight loss. The Angels (9-14) were shut out on Sunday in Cincinnati and they didn’t have a run until Jo Adell’s homer in the seventh inning against the Orioles, when they were already down by four. A Nolan Schanuel RBI single cut the deficit to two, and they had a promising rally in the ninth, but they came up short. The Angels loaded the bases against Orioles close ..read more

CINCINNATI – One day after his throwing error led to a five-run first inning for the Cincinnati Reds, Angels second baseman Luis Rengifo booted a two-out ground ball that resulted in three unearned runs Sunday afternoon. Angels starter José Soriano (0-3) took a no-hitter into the sixth inning, but Cincinnati’s Elly De La Cruz broke it up with a one-out infield single. Two batters later, Rengifo misplayed Nick Martini’s grounder, and Cristian Encarnacion-Strand smoked a two-run double off the top of the wall in left-center field for the only offense the Reds would need in a 3-0 win in ..read more

CINCINNATI – The Angels placed third baseman Anthony Rendon on the injured list Sunday morning after he pulled his hamstring legging out an infield single minutes into Saturday night’s 7-5 loss to the Cincinnati Reds. The Angels promoted infielder Ehire Adrianza to take Rendon’s spot on the roster. The third-base dugout wasn’t the only section of Great American Ball Park disappointed to see the Rendon injury, which pitcher Patrick Sandoval called “gut-wrenching.” In a suite above the visitors dugout down the third-base line, Rendon’s good friend James Casey, who is the tight ends coach for the ..read more

CINCINNATI — Saturday night could not have started any worse for the Angels as a chaotic first inning saw Anthony Rendon removed from the game with a hamstring injury, an out removed from the scoreboard due to a ground rule and Patrick Sandoval’s misplaced fastball removed from the field of play on a bases-clearing swing. Tyler Stephenson’s first career grand slam erased an early Angels lead and propelled the Cincinnati Reds to a 7-5 victory before a crowd of 27,343 at Great American Ball Park. “I’m pissed off at myself, letting the team down,” said Sandoval (1-3), who struggled with his comma ..read more

CINCINNATI — Angels manager Ron Washington decided to give Zach Neto a rest Saturday as the young shortstop continues to struggle at the plate, but it didn’t last long. Washington, who said before Saturday’s game against the Reds that he wouldn’t hesitate to bring Neto off the bench in the right situation, had it happen on the first play of the game when Angels leadoff hitter Anthony Rendon injured his hamstring legging out an infield single. Neto came in to run for Rendon and scored the Angels’ first run in a two-run first inning. “If things go where I have to get him in the game today, he wi ..read more

CINCINNATI — Budding Cincinnati Reds star Elly De La Cruz became the first opposing player in Angels history to record three stolen bases and three RBIs in the same game, leading the hosts to a 7-1 victory on Friday night before a crowd of 22,539 at Great American Ball Park. De La Cruz stole two bases in the second inning and scored on catcher Logan O’Hoppe’s throwing error. The 22-year-old from the Dominican Republic added a third stolen base in the fourth before blowing open a tight game in the bottom of the eighth with an opposite field, three-run home run off of reliever Jose Cisnero. “He ..read more