The Angels have asked an Orange County judge to throw out part of a lawsuit filed against the club and Major League Baseball by a former clubhouse employee. The case is scheduled for a Jan. 21 hearing. The Angels fired Bubba Harkins in March because he provided substances that pitchers applied to baseballs illegally, and in…
Angels file motion to dismiss defamation suit by former clubhouse worker — Press Enterprise
As the offseason begins to gear up, the first four candidates for the Angels’ vacant general manager position have emerged. Oakland A’s assistant general manager Billy Owens, San Diego Padres special assistant Logan White and Arizona Diamondbacks assistant general managers Jared Porter and Ariel Sawdaye have all interviewed for the job, a source confirmed on…
Angels’ GM search includes at least four interviews so far — Daily Bulletin
By JOE REEDY ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Los Angeles Angels slugger Albert Pujols passed Willie Mays for fifth place on the career home run list, hitting No. 661 on Friday night against Texas. Pujols connected for a solo homer with two outs in the fifth inning. He sent Wes Benjamin’s fastball on a 1-2 count…
Pujols passes Mays for 5th on HR list with No. 661, adds 662 — Boston Herald
Not long after Albert Pujols belted his 659th homer, to pull within one homer of Willie Mays, the Angels were playing the San Francisco Giants, and Pujols got a text from the Giants’ great. “This is your time now, so go get it,” Pujols said Mays wrote. “I wish that it would have happened against…
Albert Pujols equals Willie Mays on all-time HR list, helps Angels to victory — Press Telegram
Mike Trout’s outfield reads became somewhat of a trending topic among baseball fans and media on Twitter last Friday. Among those who were paying attention: Trout himself. According to MLB’s Statcast technology, Trout’s “jump” on balls hit to the outfield ranks among the bottom 1 percent of outfielders. Statcast divides “jump” into three components: reaction…
Mike Trout is working on his defense, thanks to Twitter — Daily News
Angels DH Albert Pujols swatted a grand slam Sunday afternoon to give his team the lead. It’s the 658th homer of his career, two behind Willie Mays.
Albert Pujols hits grand slam for career home run No. 658 — HardballTalk | NBC Sports
OAKLAND — As if playing Opening Day in July in a stadium filled with cardboard cutouts instead of fans wasn’t different enough, the Angels went a little further to do something memorable on Friday night. For the first time in baseball history, a runner was placed at second base to start the 10th inning. The…
Angels drop first game in major league history using new extra-innings rule — Press Telegram
The Angels came up on the wrong side, though, losing 7-3 to the Oakland A’s, who parlayed their free runner into a Matt Olson grand slam against Hoby Milner.
Oakland Athletics’ Matt Olson, left, celebrates after hitting a grand slam home run against the Los Angeles Angels in the tenth inning of a baseball game in Oakland, Calif., Friday, July 24, 2020. The Athletics won 7-3 in 10 innings. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
It was the first application of a new major league rule intended to prevent long extra inning games in this pandemic-shortened season. The rule had been used in the minors and international play.
Olson, a Gold Glove first baseman, had helped defuse the Angels’ chance in the top of the 10th too.
Left-handed hitting Jared Walsh hit the ball to the right side — as he tried to move Shohei Ohtani to third — but Olson made a quick throw across the diamond to get Ohtani in a rundown. The Angels still managed to load the bases with two outs, but Andrelton Simmons grounded out.
In the bottom of the inning, the A’s loaded the bases with one out, and the Angels brought in a five-man infield to try to cut down the run at the plate. Olson lofted a drive over the right field fence, ending the game.
ANAHEIM — Three weeks and zero outbreaks after Mike Trout showed up for Angels camp with some reluctance about playing the season, he seems to have been significantly comforted that it’s safe to play. “It’s been good so far,” Trout said on Wednesday, just two days before Friday’s opener. “Obviously, since the last time we…
Angels’ Mike Trout says ‘I’m playing’ despite coronavirus concerns — Press Telegram
ANAHEIM >> It looks like Anthony Rendon’s debut with the Angels won’t come on Opening Day. Rendon, who signed a seven-year, $245-million deal with the Angels in December, has been out for a week because of oblique tightness that is now expected to keep him out when the Angels open their season in Oakland on…
Anthony Rendon expected to miss first Opening Day with Angels — Press Telegram
ANAHEIM — Anthony Rendon remains out with an oblique issue, and although he’s still listed as day to day, Joe Maddon isn’t ready to assume his star third baseman will be ready for next Friday’s opener. “I want to believe he’s gonna be ready (for opening day) but if not, we’re gonna have to have…
Angels’ new slugger Anthony Rendon still dealing with oblique issue — Press Telegram
Two players in the Angels organization have tested positive for COVID-19, general manager Billy Eppler said on Friday night. Eppler would not specify whether the players were major leaguers or minor leaguers, but he said that neither had been working out at Angel Stadium or at the team’s complex in Arizona. Both players are currently…
Two Angels players test positive for COVID-19 — Press Telegram
Albert Pujols is helping fill the gaps the Angels left when they decided to furlough many of their employees. Pujols is paying $180,000 out of his pocket to support furloughed Angels employees in the Dominican Republic for five months, according to a source close to Pujols. The Angels have a complex in the Dominican Republic,…
Albert Pujols pays $180,000 to support furloughed Angels employees in the Dominican Republic — Press Telegram
The view from left field 