An ugly weekend of baseball turned uglier on Sunday, as the Angels were handed an 11-2 drubbing by the Seattle Mariners at T-Mobile Park to complete a four-game sweep. With the loss, the Halos (69-81) were officially eliminated from AL West contention, also falling to last place in the division.

In the process, the Angels have clinched their 10th consecutive season without a winning record. They have established a decade’s worth of consistency, but not in the form that anyone involved would have hoped for.

Solo home runs from Christian Moore and Oswald Peraza in the fifth and sixth gave Los Angeles their only scores of the day, but the squad had already been buried in an 11-0 hole by that point. It was the fifth home run of the season for both, with Moore launching his first since August 27.

Seattle right-hander George Kirby had worked a perfect game through the first 5 1/3 innings of the contest before Moore rudely broke it up. Kirby continued to remain sharp and ultimately exited after 6 1/3 innings, allowing just three hits and two runs.

Denzer Guzman, who started at shortstop and hit seventh for Los Angeles, finished 2/3 as he collected his first Major League hit off Kirby in the fifth. Currently number nine in the organization’s prospect rankings, the 21-year-old took a fastball and dunked it into center field.

The main story of the afternoon, however, was the nightmare outing that quickly materialized for Kyle Hendricks. Making his 29th start of 2025, the right-hander was hit around with no mercy through the opening four innings.

Cal Raleigh launched a two-run blast in the first before Hendricks could even record an out, quickly getting Seattle out in front. With home run number 54, the catcher tied Mickey Mantle for the most homers ever in a single season by a switch-hitter.

That was only the beginning, as the Mariners poured on three more in the second, using four hits to do so. Dominic Canzone’s two-out single made it 5-0 entering the fourth.

Hendricks did not escape the fourth, earning just one out as he conceded three more hits and a walk. Josh Naylor’s two-run single to make it 8-0 was the final nail in the coffin, ending his day as Connor Brogdon took the mound in relief.

In the end, the 35-year-old was charged with nine earned runs, matching a career-worst mark as he fell to 7-10. It was his second-shortest outing as an Angel, while he allowed a season-high ten hits.

Out of the bullpen, Brogdon, Jose Urena and Logan Davidson combined to work the final 4 2/3 innings and keep Seattle off the board from the fifth inning onward. Davidson is the sixth position player that Los Angeles has used as a pitcher this season.

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Strikeouts proved to be a major issue for the batting order through the first four games of the road trip, with the team totaling 62 of them in the series and 18 on Sunday. The lineup will have to be much more disciplined moving forward to help the Angels get back in the win column.

After a day off, Los Angeles returns to action on Tuesday as they head to Milwaukee for a three-game set against the current leaders of Major League Baseball, the Brewers. At 91-59, they hold the first seed in the National League, and their 3.62 team ERA is second to just the Texas Rangers.

Right-hander Caden Dana (0-1, 6.32 ERA) will start for the Angels against Brewers’ right-hander Freddy Peralta (16-6, 2.69 ERA). Peralta is third in the NL in ERA, and remains at the top of the list among names in contention for the Cy Young award.

First pitch is scheduled for 4:40 p.m. PT.