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<\/p>\nThe Angels led for five innings before crumbling late en route to a 10-inning, 3-2 loss to the Athletics on Thursday night at Angel Stadium, all in front of a sparse crowd featuring fiery \u201csell-the-team\u201d chants from shirtless fans in the upper deck.<\/p>\n
With the bases loaded and one out in the top of the 10th, the A\u2019s Zack Gelof hit into a fielder\u2019s choice groundout off reliever Ryan Zeferjahn. <\/p>\n
Angels second baseman Adam Frazier had trouble getting the ball out of his glove after catching shortstop Zach Neto\u2019s throw. That allowed Nick Kurtz to reach home as the go-ahead run.<\/p>\n
Gelof was initially called out, but the A\u2019s won the challenge \u2014 and ultimately the game 3-2.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, [Frazier] looked like he just couldn\u2019t get the ball out of his glove,\u201d Angels manager Kurt Suzuki said. \u201cYou know, one of those things where the ball got in, and he was doing everything right to turn it, just couldn\u2019t get out of his glove.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Bare chested fans wave their shirts in right field during the seventh inning of the Angels\u2019 loss to the Athletics on Thursday at Angel Stadium. The fans chanted for Angels owner Arte Moreno to \u201csell the team.\u201d<\/p>\n
(Luke Hales \/ Getty Images)<\/p>\n
The Angels were unable to tie against A\u2019s reliever Mark Leiter Jr., who earned the save, despite having runners on the corners and zero outs in the bottom half of the frame. Zeferjahn (2-2) took the loss.<\/p>\n
Nolan Schanuel gave the Angels a 2-0 lead in the first inning with a two-run homer. But the Angels\u2019 offense, which has been outscored 84-32 since a May 9 loss in Toronto, continued to struggle.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey believe,\u201d Suzuki said of the Angels\u2019 spirit, specifically on offense. \u201cEvery inning, you got all the guys \u2014 they\u2019re all up there, rooting guys on and believing that we\u2019re going to put up runs, and really, we\u2019re just not. And it\u2019s not for a lack of effort; it\u2019s not for a lack of anything like that. We just need to find ways to score runs, that\u2019s all.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Athletics took advantage of the small deficit, as Darell Hern\u00e1iz and Nick Kurtz hit RBI singles in the sixth and seventh innings, respectively, to tie the game and force extras.<\/p>\n
Angels starter Jos\u00e9 Soriano surrendered two runs and six hits over 6 2\/3 innings with seven strikeouts. A\u2019s starter Luis Severino surrendered two runs on three hits over seven frames with 10 strikeouts.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll take away the positive things,\u201d Soriano said. \u201c[I] got into the seventh, but couldn\u2019t complete the inning, but I feel good (about) the way I pitched today. I helped the team the most I can \u2026 I control what I could control \u2026 I battled; I feel good about that.\u201d<\/p>\n
After failing to split the four-game series with the AL West-leading A\u2019s, the Angels have dropped four consecutive series and hold an MLB-worst 17-34 record.<\/p>\n
That has prompted a growing group of fans to gather shirtless in the upper deck at Angel Stadium and chant that owner Arte Moreno should \u201csell the team.\u201d The chants could be heard on the Angels\u2019 TV broadcast.<\/p>\n
The players, meanwhile, are trying to string together enough good plays to score more wins.<\/p>\n
\u201cReally just trying to get the rhythm going of just piling on good at-bat after good at-bat after good at-bat,\u201d Angels right fielder Jo Adell said. \u201cWe just haven\u2019t really had that rhythm. It\u2019s like a good at-bat here, and we struggle to kind of pile up after one another and get that rhythm going. We\u2019re hoping to, at some point, find what that is; we\u2019ve had it, we know what it is. But it\u2019s just one of those things, baseball can kind of just slip away from you.\u201d<\/p>\n
The road ahead doesn\u2019t get any easier for the Angels. The Angels host the Rangers (24-25), who are a close second in the AL West and riding a two-game winning streak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Angels led for five innings before crumbling late en route to a 10-inning, 3-2 loss to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[7217,2194,291,88708,2229,5,58016,88709,14,18580,3654,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,88706,4,459,88707,38860,3291],"class_list":["post-705733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-angels","tag-10th","tag-angel-stadium","tag-angels","tag-angels-bobble-double-play","tag-ball","tag-baseball","tag-chant","tag-choice-groundout","tag-game","tag-glove","tag-innings","tag-la","tag-la-angels","tag-laangels","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesangels","tag-loss-athletics","tag-mlb","tag-nick-kurtz","tag-shirtless-fan","tag-upper-deck","tag-zack-gelof"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116618311239530369","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}