Officially crossing the finish line of a 1-9 road trip, the Angels dropped the series finale 3-1 to the Colorado Rockies on Sunday afternoon at Coors Field. At 70-86 overall, Los Angeles finished 33-48 away from Angel Stadium this season.

The Halos tallied three of their seven hits in the first inning, plating their only run of the game in the process. Mike Trout’s leadoff double set up Jo Adell to bring him home two batters later with a single to right field against Rockies’ starter Kyle Freeland.

It marked the 96th RBI of the season for Adell, who has six games remaining in his chase to reach the century mark for the first time in his career. If he can get to the milestone, Adell and Taylor Ward will become the first pair of Angels teammates to reach 100 RBI since 2016 (Mike Trout and Albert Pujols).

Freeland recovered nicely, however, striking out both Logan O’Hoppe and Christian Moore with runners on the corners to escape the inning. The left-hander allowed just two more hits the rest of the way, finishing with five frames of work and seven strikeouts.

Angels’ pitcher Caden Dana, who made his fourth start of the year and sixth overall appearance in the Major Leagues, had his best outing of 2025 in a losing effort. Despite falling to 0-3, the 21-year-old dealt a season-high six innings, allowing just three hits and two home runs. 

After walking the first two batters he saw in the second inning, Kyle Karros eventually delivered a sacrifice fly to right that would help Colorado even the score at one. In the fourth, Blaine Crim’s leadoff home run put his squad in front 2-1 for the second run charged to Dana.

Crim padded the Rockies’ lead in the eighth against Angels’ reliever Sam Bachman, grounding a high chopper towards third that scored Mickey Moniak to make it 3-1. Ezequiel Tovar was tagged out on the play caught between second and third as Crim reached first on the fielder’s choice. 

Bachman allowed just the one run in the eighth, while Connor Brogdon had pitched a scoreless seventh after Dana was removed from the contest. It was an impressive series from the bullpen unit as a whole, as they combined for 7 2/3 innings of work and conceded only one earned run.

Los Angeles managed to get the leadoff runner aboard in both the eighth and ninth innings, but could not make anything of it as the rally fell short. Yoán Moncada’s single to right got the tying run aboard in the eighth, but pinch-runner Chris Taylor was thrown out trying to steal second as Trout went down swinging on a strike ’em out, throw ’em out double play. 

In the ninth, Adell drew a leadoff walk before Nolan Schanuel grounded into a momentum-killing 3-6 double play. Logan O’Hoppe did provide a two-out single that gave Christian Moore one more opportunity as the tying run at the plate, but Colorado right-hander Victor Vodnik struck him out to end the game.

Despite the brutal recent stretch of play, the Angels’ 70 wins have secured their largest year-to-year win improvement since 2014. They had gone 63-99 in 2024.

Following an off day, Los Angeles returns to action on Tuesday evening against the Kansas City Royals as they begin a six-game homestand to close out the season. Left-hander Sam Aldegheri (0-0, 10.38 ERA) will start for the Angels against Royals’ left-hander Cole Ragans (2-3, 5.16 ERA).

First pitch is scheduled for 6:38 p.m. PT.