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Clips (August 3, 2015)

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Today’s Clips Contents

FROM THE LOS ANGELES TIMES (Page 3)  Dodgers win in a walk-off as 's homer in 10th beats Angels  The Angels are streaking again, just not in the right direction  Andre Ethier's second homer gives Dodgers sweep of Angels, 5-3

FROM THE OC REGISTER (Page 8)  Dodgers are red hot, Angels ice cold after Andre Ethier's walk-off homer completes a series sweep, 5-3  Drew Rucinski's time with Angels is disappointing and brief  Angels' top prospect Sean Newcomb promoted, makes Double-A debut  On deck: Indians at Angels, Monday, 7 p.m., FSW  Scioscia believes Angels can 'turn the page' on current streak

FROM ANGELS.COM (Page 14)  'Staff day' leaves Angels weary  Angels run out of fight against Dodgers  Angels look to get back on track vs. Indians

FROM THE LA DAILY NEWS (Page 17)  Andre Ethier’s walk-off powers Dodgers to 5-3 win over Angels  Angels’ David DeJesus wore three uniforms in four-day span in 2013

FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (Page 20)  Angels Lose 6th Straight, 5-3 To Dodgers In 10  Ethier’s 2 HRS Help Dodgers Beat Angels 5-3 In 10

FROM YAHOO SPORTS (Page 24)  Indians-Angels Preview

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FROM THE LOS ANGELES TIMES

Dodgers win in a walk-off as Andre Ethier's homer in 10th beats Angels

BY DYLAN HERNANDEZ

Watching the disappear into the visiting bullpen at , Andre Ethier raised his right arm. Then he punched the air with his left.

The celebration was only starting, as his teammates climbed over the dugout railing and formed a semicircle behind home plate that was waiting to engulf him in front of a jubilant near-capacity crowd. The Dodgers beat the Angels again Sunday, this time by a 5-3 margin on Ethier's walk-off two-run home run in the 10th inning.

"It's always good when they tie the game and you come back and they tie it again and you come back again," Dodgers Yasmani Grandal said. "That's what good teams do."

Behind two home runs by Ethier and another by Howie Kendrick, the Dodgers completed a three-game sweep in their home segment of the . They improved to 15 games over .500 for time this season and extended their lead to 2 1/2 games over the second-place in the West.

The Angels are headed in the opposite direction, as they dropped their sixth consecutive game. Their deficit to first-place Houston in the West now stands at four games after consecutive three-game sweeps by the Astros and Dodgers. The last time they trailed by as many games was on July 4.

"You're playing against a team that's struggling, you don't want to get them going," Grandal said.

The Dodgers didn't, in large part because of newcomer Mat Latos, who limited the Angels to a solitary run over the first six innings. Latos, who was acquired three days earlier from the as part of a three-team trade, allowed four hits.

While Latos' performance supported the widely held view that the Dodgers properly addressed the shortcomings of their rotation at the nonwaiver trade deadline, the continued troubles of the bullpen did nothing to dismiss concerns about the team's ability to close out games.

The Dodgers led, 2-1, through seven innings, on the strength of Kendrick's two-run homer in the third.

Manager Don Mattingly called on another newcomer, Jim Johnson, to pitch the eighth inning.

Because closer Kenley Jansen was unavailable after throwing a combined 50 pitches in the first two games of the series, Mattingly had wanted to save Johnson for the ninth. But with the heart of the Angels order due up in the eighth, the manager elected to use him there instead.

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Completely heartened and completely surprised by Ethier's recent displays of emotion. It looks like he's really into playing good, hard, solid baseball, unlike most of the last 4-5 years when he regularly quit on the team at various points during the season.

Johnson, who had been closing for the Braves before the Dodgers got him in the same three-team trade that delivered Latos, served up a solo home run to Kole Calhoun that leveled the score, 2-2.

"That was just a bad miss," Johnson said. "It missed middle-middle."

Johnson recovered to strike out and induce a ground out from .

"He's got nasty stuff," Grandal said. "That kind of showed right there with Trout and Pujols. I feel it was the first at-bat Trout was actually a little bit uncomfortable at the plate. When you see guys like Trout and Pujols be a little bit uncomfortable with a guy, that means he has something."

Ethier his first home run of the game in the bottom of the eighth, launching an offering from Joe Smith over the center-field wall. It was his 11th home run, but first since June 29.

The newfound 3-2 advantage quickly vanished in the ninth.

Dodgers left-hander J.P. Howell gave up a leadoff single to pinch-hitter . The next batter, , hit a comebacker. Howell was able to get a force out at second base, but his low throw prevented from turning a double play. Howell struck out Conor Gillaspie, but Aybar stole second base on the third strike.

With right-handed-hitting Chris Iannetta coming up, Mattingly replaced Howell with right-hander Pedro Baez.

The percentages supported the move. Iannetta entered the game batting .245 against left-handers and .179 against right-handers. Right-handed hitters were batting .267 against Howell and .221 against Baez.

No matter. Iannetta drove Baez's first pitch, a fastball, over the head of center fielder Joc Pederson, bringing Aybar home to tie the score, 3-3.

As Ethier prepared for his 10th-inning at-bat against right-hander Drew Rucinski, his teammates tried to bet him that he couldn't repeat what he'd done two innings earlier.

Only, of course, he did.

Later, when the celebration subsided, Ethier tried to collect his prize.

"What did I win?" Ethier asked.

The game, he was told.

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The Angels are streaking again, just not in the right direction

BY ZACH HELFAND

It wasn’t long ago that the Angels were the hottest team in baseball. No, really.

They had won 17 of 20 games. Four times in that span, Angels had thrown shutouts, and four times, the hitters had scored in double digits. They led the by two games.

Does anyone remember that?

It was hard to by the third time an Angels outfielder ran to the wall and looked up, hopelessly, as another Dodgers home run left the field.

See the most-read stories in Sports this hour >> The last, a walk-off two-run shot from Andre Ethier in the 10th inning, gave the Dodgers a 5-3 win. At home plate, the Dodgers ripped off Ethier’s uniform. On the mound, right-hander Drew Rucinski put his uniform over his face, and he and the rest of the Angels walked quickly off the field.

Thirteen minutes later, the Angels would announce that Rucinski had been optioned back to triple-A Salt Lake.

The team formerly known as the hottest in baseball now owns the league’s longest losing streak, at six games. The Angels have lost nine of 10 games.

“I’m very, very confident that our club is going to be able to play at the level we need to,” Manager said. But, he added, “We haven’t the last 10 games, and that’s obvious.”

The Angels used a staff day to fill in for injured left-hander C.J. Wilson, who has said he will probably require season-ending surgery to clean out bone spurs from his pitching elbow. That meant right-hander Cory Rasmus, usually a reliever, got the start. He fooled the Dodgers for three innings, minus one at-bat against former teammate Howie Kendrick in the third inning.

With two outs, Kendrick blasted a two-run home run over the center-field wall. It was Rasmus’ only major mistake in 48 pitches.

“Other than that,” Scioscia said, “you couldn’t ask for much more.”

All five Dodgers runs came on home runs. After Angels right fielder Kole Calhoun hit an eighth-inning home run to tie the score at two, Joe Smith gave up his first home run since Aug. 10, 2014, also to Ethier.

“That’s what happens when you get behind, 3-0, to good hitters,” Smith said. “We’ve got to throw one for a strike. And he hit it really far.”

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The Angels rallied in the top of the ninth, when left fielder David Murphy led off with a single and shortstop Erick Aybar, who reached on a fielder’s choice, stole second. Catcher Chris Iannetta drove him in with a two-out double to tie the game.

It would remain tied for just one more inning.

“It’s not a good feeling,” center fielder Mike Trout said. “It’s tough. It’s a big game, big series. But it’s over.”

During the 10-game nosedive, the lineup is batting .221. They have produced 3.6 runs per game. The bullpen’s earned-run average is 5.83.

And the first-place Houston Astros, who added big names in left-hander Scott Kazmir and outfielder Carlos Gomez, have zoomed to a four-game lead in the AL West.

Still, Scioscia said the team has improved even compared with the winning streak. He cited its addition of depth at the trade deadline. The changes, he said, just haven't shown yet.

He indicated that the streaks, both good and bad, will even out.

“We didn’t lose today because of yesterday’s game,” Scioscia said. “We didn’t lose yesterday because of the day before.”

Andre Ethier's second homer gives Dodgers sweep of Angels, 5-3

BY STEVE DILBECK

It looked promising the first time Andre Ethier hit a home run, his solo shot putting the Dodgers up by a run in the eighth. Only, in the ninth, the Dodgers fumbled away the lead and the game went into extra innings.

Given another chance in the 10th inning, Ethier hit a two-run homer to leave the Dodgers with a 5-3 victory over the Angels at Dodger Stadium.

That wrapped what the Dodgers called a pretty good weekend. Three sellout crowds. Plenty of sunshine. And a three-game sweep of the Angels to gain a couple games on the Giants in the standings.

Ethier had been particularly quiet of late. He had not homered since June 29, but hit two Sunday. He now has 12 on the season. It was his 12th multi-home run game and sixth walk-off home run.

The victory was the fourth straight for the Dodgers and sixth consecutive win over their Southland rivals. With the Giants losing, the Dodgers’ lead in the went back to 2½ games. And for the first time all season, they went 15 games over the .500 mark (60-45).

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But with two outs in the third, Jimmy Rollins singled and Howie Kendrick drilled a two-run homer. It was Kendrick’s second home run of the series against his former teammates and ninth on the season.

Mat Latos was successful in keeping the Angels off-balance early, before faltering a tad in the sixth. Cole Calhoun led off with a double, advanced to third on Mike Trout’s groundout and scored when Albert Pujols bounced out to short.

Latos, making his first start for the Dodgers since his trade Thursday from Miami, left after six innings. On the hot afternoon, he allowed one run on four hits and a walk. He struck out one and threw 80 pitches.

Juan Nicasio maintained the 2-1 lead with a scoreless seventh, but the Dodgers ran into trouble with the debut of another pitcher acquired in that 13-player trade.

Jim Johnson, who came to the Dodgers from Atlanta, took over in the eighth to face the heart of the Angels order. And Calhoun quickly connected on a solo home run to tie it. It was Calhoun’s 14th home run of the season.

In the bottom of the inning the Angels’ fifth pitcher, Joe Smith, got the first two outs before Ethier hit a go-ahead home run to dead center field. It was the first home run Smith has allowed all season.

With Kenley Jansen having thrown 50 pitches in the last two days, the Dodgers called on J.P. Howell to close. But David Murphy opened the ninth with a base hit up the middle and the game would turn yet again.

Howell got Erick Aybar to hit a bouncer back to the box that probably should have been a double play, but his throw to second was low and the Dodgers had to settle for just the force. Howell struck out Conor Gillaspie for the second out, but Aybar alertly stole second on strike three.

Manager Don Mattingly decided to call on Pedro Baez for the final out, who was looking for his first career save. He’s still looking for it. Chris Iannetta lined his first pitch for a double to score Aybar with the tying run.

But in the bottom of the 10th innings, the Angels called on inexperienced right-hander reliever Drew Rucinski. With one out he walked Adrian Gonzalez, to bring up Ethier. And a second home run was soon landing in the Angels bullpen.

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FROM THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

Dodgers are red hot, Angels ice cold after Andre Ethier's walk-off homer completes a series sweep, 5-3

BY BILL PLUNKET

LOS ANGELES – The I-5 Freeway between Los Angeles and Anaheim runs north and south. Right now, the Dodgers and Angels are going in very different directions.

Andre Ethier’s second home run in the last three innings was a two-run walk-off shot in the 10th, giving the Dodgers a 5-3 victory over the Angels and completing a three-game sweep of the northern engagement in the annual interleague series.

The Dodgers now have the first six-game winning streak by either team in this rivalry. More painfully for the Angels, the loss completed a winless, six-game road trip to Houston and Los Angeles. The Angels have lost nine of their past 10 games to slip four games behind the Astros in the AL West, their hold on a wild-card spot more tenuous by the day.

“We didn’t lose today because of yesterday’s game. We didn’t lose yesterday because of the day before,” Angels manager Mike Scioscia said of the downward spiral that has seen the Angels outscored 53-36 in their past 10 games (numbers buoyed by 13 runs in their lone victory). “These guys understand. They turn the page well. They come out here and they play hard. We played three games here. If some things had turned out a little differently, we win three. It ends up we lose three.

“There’s some things we need to do better on the field. During this stretch, whether some guys are a little tired, we’re on our heels a little bit. We’re not aggressive like we can be. We’ll get back to that. This is just a stretch. We’re a good team.”

The Angels’ timing was certainly off this weekend. They might have run into the Dodgers as the NL West leaders are starting to put it all together.

Sunday’s win ended a 4-1 homestand that pushed the Dodgers a season-high 15 games over .500 (60- 45).

“Since the (All-Star) break, I think we’ve played pretty good baseball,” Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said. “I think offensively we’ve had good quality at-bats. Guys are doing the job. We’re getting good pitching. So, yeah – up to this point. But obviously, this one, you enjoy it for a little bit. But there’s a lot of baseball to be played.”

The Dodgers head into the season’s final two months with their starting rotation –strengthened by their trade-deadline moves – as stable and robust as it has been since they broke training camp in Arizona.

The Angels ran into , and newly acquired Mat Latos in the weekend series. Those three allowed just three runs on 11 hits over 22 innings.

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Making his first start for the Dodgers since being acquired from the Miami Marlins, Latos was slightly sleep-deprived and more than a little anxious. But he allowed just one run on four hits in six innings Sunday.

“I'm just glad I didn't get booed like I did in Miami in my first start,” Latos said, referring to a disastrous debut for the Marlins this season. “I lasted more than two-thirds of an inning and didn’t give up seven runs.

“I was nervous when I woke up this morning. I didn’t eat much. I ate a banana and a Red Bull. Let’s go.”

The Angels could have used something to jolt their lineup to life. In the three-game series, Kole Calhoun and Mike Trout went a combined 8 for 21 with a double, triple and two home runs. They scored five of the Angels’ seven runs in the series and drove in four. The rest of the team went 10 for 79 (.127) with no extra-base hits and only one RBI.

Calhoun’s solo home run in the eighth inning tied the game, but Ethier matched that with a solo home run in the eighth and then topped it with his two-run walkoff in the 10th.

The solo home run off Joe Smith was Ethier’s first in 20 games and more than a month (June 29), and the walkoff gave him his first muli-homer day in over four years (July 10, 2011).

“Not too many times in baseball you get to take the last shot,” Ethier said. “That was one of them right there.”

Pitcher Drew Rucinski's time with Angels is disappointing and brief

BY HAYDEN KNUDSEN

LOS ANGELES – In some ways, Drew Rucinski’s last few days have been a microcosm of the Angels’ play since the All-Star break, with big highs and extreme lows.

Rucinski was called up to the big league club on Friday after C.J. Wilson was put on the disabled list, and it was his first time on the Angels roster since he made the team out of .

On Sunday, Rucinski pitched for the first time for the Angels since April 14, when he lasted 22/3 innings and gave up four earned runs against the .

His return did not go as he planned, though. Rucinski was given the task of holding a 3-3 tie in the 10th inning, but he served up a 1-1 changeup to Andre Ethier, who deposited the pitch over the right-field fence for his second home run of the day, giving the Dodgers a 5-3 walk-off win.

“I mean you try and get ahead in the count and get to 1-1 and I just made a mistake on that pitch,” Rucinski said. “It’s frustrating.”

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SMITH SERVES ONE UP

Since Joe Smith joined the Angels in 2014, he has given the Angels a sense of reliability. He has nailed down the eighth-inning role and at times has been asked to close out games.

On Sunday, however, Smith did something that he and the Angels aren’t very used to seeing. He gave up a home run.

It was the first home run Smith has allowed since almost a year ago – August 10, 2014 to be exact.

“That was the first home run I’ve given up in almost a year?” Smith asked. “I mean I’ve just been trying to throw strikes and get ahead of hitters, and one home run in almost a year, I’m not too worried about that.”

The homer came on a 3-1 pitch to Andre Ethier that gave the Dodgers a 3-2 lead in the bottom of the eighth inning. The Angels would end up losing on Ethier’s walk-off home run.

NOTES

Albert Pujols fourth-inning single was his 100th hit of the season, making him the 16th player all time to record 100 or more hits in each of his first 15 major league seasons. ... The Angels have lost nine of their last 10 games and are on a six-game losing streak, their longest of the season … Right-hander Cory Rasmus drew a spot start Sunday in place of the injured Wilson. He worked three innings, allowing a two-run homer to former Angel Howie Kendrick in the third. “Cory looked terrific out there,” Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. “It was just that one fastball to Howie that Howie hit out to center field, but other than that you can’t ask anything more from the way he pitched.”

Angels' top prospect Sean Newcomb promoted, makes Double-A debut

BY MICHAEL WEST

Continuing his quick ascent through the Angels’ minor league ranks, left-hander Sean Newcomb has been promoted to Double-A and made his debut on Sunday night in North Little Rock.

He gave up two runs and three hits with five and five walks in five innings against Tulsa.

The club’s top prospect beganthe year in Class-A ball with the Midwest League’s Burlington Bees where he garnered up a 1-0 record and a 1.83 ERA in seven starts, with 45 strikeouts in 34.1 innings. Following a promotion to Advanced-A, the 22-year-old made his debut on May 16 and dominated competition through his final start on July 28.

In 13 starts with the 66ers, Newcomb finished with a 6-1 record and a 2.47 ERA in 13 starts, striking out 84 batters in 65 2/3 innings while holding his opposition to a miniscule .207 average.

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Taken with the 15th overall selection by the Angels in the 2014 draft, Newcomb was especially impressive in pressure situations with the 66ers. The Middleboro, Mass., product held opposing hitters to a .130 average (10 for 77) with runners in scoring position and an unfathomable .029 average (1 for 35) with runners in scoring position and two outs.

The highest ever draft pick out of Hartford University has made waves since making his professional debut in 2014. Newcomb’s electric numbers earned him a chance to pitch in the 2015 Futures Game on July 12th in Cincinnati where he delivered a 1-2-3 seventh inning in part of a 10-1 victory for the U.S. team against the World team.

Newcomb made his Double-A debut in front of his home fans as the Travelers finished up a four-game series against the at Dickey-Stephens Park. With the addition of Newcomb, the Travelers’ starting rotation now consists of the Angels’ No.1 (Newcomb), No. 2 (), No. 5 (Nate Smith) and No.18 (Kyle McGowin) prospects as rated by MLB.com.

On deck: Indians at Angels, Monday, 7 p.m., FSW

BY HAYDEN KNUDSEN

Where: Angels Stadium

TV: Fox Sports West (FSW)

Did you know: The Angels’ six game losing-streak is the longest of the season and their first since July of 2013.

THE PITCHERS

RHP (10-8, 3.38 ERA)

Richards will face the Indians for the first time of his career, but has pitched well of late and will look to continue his recent success. In Richards last three starts he has a 2.70 ERA and opponents are hitting just .167 off of him. He will look to end a stretch in which the Angels have lost nine of ten games.

Vs. Indians: None

At : 6-2, 2.05 ERA

COREY KLUBER (6-11, 3.44 ERA)

Kluber has faced the Angels just once in his career, back in 2014, and did not fare well, giving up four runs, three earned, in just 4 2/3 innings of work. The reigning AL CY Young award winner’sERA sits at 3.44, a full point higher than last year’s mark of 2.44.

Vs. Angels: 0-1, 5.79 ERA

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At Angel Stadium: 0-1, 5.79

Loves to face: None

Hates to face: Conor Gillaspie (8 for 22, .364)

Scioscia believes Angels can 'turn the page' on current streak

BY PEDRO MOURA

LOS ANGELES – After his club dropped its sixth straight game Sunday afternoon at Dodger Stadium, Mike Scioscia sounded more emboldened than he usually does after losses.

The Angels manager said his staff had “pitched their hearts out” into extra innings. He said it was a good sign his players “got after it” to twice tie the game in regulation.

I asked if it was fair to characterize his state of mind as encouraged despite the results. He said it was, with a caveat.

“Don’t confuse being able to turn the page with taking things in stride,” Scioscia said. “I’m very, very confident our club’s going to be able to play at the level we need to. We haven’t for the last 10 days – that’s obvious.”

For more than three weeks, the Angels were the hottest team in baseball. They lost three times in 26 days. Eventually, that stretch ended, and they became the coldest team in ball. They have lost nine times in 11 days.

Combined, the streaks make for a difficult situation to assess. Compounding that, the Angels made three trades, essentially in between the two streaks, and lost one of their starters, C.J. Wilson for the season.

It is unclear, to me at least, how good they are.

“We definitely believe in the group here,” Scioscia said Sunday. “I think we’re a better team now than we were during that streak, if you look at some of the depth that’s been acquired. It’s maybe not showing up on the field like we know it will, but we’re very confident that we’re gonna do things at a higher level.

“We can definitely be the team we were during that streak.”

The streak significantly raised the expectations for the team, externally, at least, if not also internally. The storyline changed some.

David Murphy, one of the Angels’ three acquisitions, dealt with unrealized expectations for this season’s first four months with the Cleveland Indians. Sports Illustrated picked them to win the ; through 99 games, they were 45-54.

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Just before they traded Murphy, the Indians’ best hitter, Jason Kipnis, lashed out to the Cleveland press, likening the team’s performance to an expletive.

“Embarrassing,” Kipnis said. “No fight, giving up early. We’ve got people worrying about their own things, nobody’s held accountable. … So we held a team meeting today to rein the guys back in, get us back to where we need to be, get our heads straight, get our heads out of our butts and play better baseball.”

After Kipnis’ outburst, the Indians lost two more, won three and then lost two more again. Monday, they begin a three-game series with the Angels in Anaheim.

The Angels have not held impromptu team meetings of late. Their collective disposition is not noticeably different, to an outsider, than it was on any given day during the hot stretch.

“You think of 17 of 20 wins and eight of nine losses. If you even that out, that’s still pretty solid right there,” Murphy said before Sunday’s game. “You don’t like being on the down side of it, but at the end of the day you look for consistency as a whole.”

There’s truth to that. Even with latest loss, the Angels are 18-12 in their last 30 games. That’s a 97-win pace over a full season.

“If I learned anything,” Murphy said of the Cleveland disaster, “it’s that regardless of what type of expectations that you enter a season with, you still have to go out there and perform.

“You still have to go out there and execute, do the little things to win.”

Scioscia said the Angels are doing many of those ambiguous things.

“There’s some things we need to do better on the field,” the manager said. “During this stretch, whether some guys are a little tired, we’re on our heels a little bit, we’re not aggressive like we can be. We’ll get back to that. This is just a stretch. We’re a good team.”

By the record of their wins and losses this season, the Angels are the ninth-best team in the majors, the fourth-best team in the American League. The previous stretch buoyed them to this status. It also cloaked some of their problems. In a playoff series, their starting rotation would not be favored against most opponents. They have two reliable relievers, both of whom have worked a lot.

Sunday, Scioscia admitted definite concern with bullpen usage, with the “volume of pitches, the volume of appearances.” To acquire aid to that end now would be a terrific challenge.

But hope remains within the clubhouse. Perhaps, among many, it is a feeling even stronger than hope – confidence.

“I don’t think anybody in here's worried, by any means,” reliever Joe Smith said Sunday. “When we get hot, we get hot.

“We can roll for a long time.”

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A long time still remains in this season.

FROM ANGELS.COM

'Staff day' leaves Angels weary

BY DAVID ADLER / MLB.COM

LOS ANGELES -- The Angels threw nearly everything they had against the Dodgers on Sunday, and they still lost their sixth straight game. Six relief pitchers and 12 position players only produced a 5-3, 10- inning loss on Andre Ethier's walk-off two-run homer off Drew Rucinski at Dodger Stadium.

Rucinski entered the game in the 10th as the Angels' only option out of the bullpen other than closer Huston Street, who was being held back for a save situation. (It's also possible that, had the game gone long enough, starter Matt Shoemaker could have come out of the bullpen as an emergency option.)

"That situation will happen -- you've just got to deal with it, do what you can," Rucinski said.

The Angels' pitching staff was pushed to its limits because of what manager Mike Scioscia calls a "staff day." With scheduled starter C.J. Wilson going on the disabled list Friday with bone spurs in his pitching elbow, the Angels trotted out a string of relievers, headed by Cory Rasmus. Rasmus started multiple times in similar situations down the stretch in 2014, after Garrett Richards' season-ending injury.

"These staff days are a last resort, and we needed it today, and our guys did a great job with it," Scioscia said. "We just didn't quite have enough."

On Sunday, the Angels' relievers turned in a strong performance given the circumstances, but after 10 innings all the Angels had nothing to show for it but their sixth straight loss and their ninth in 10 games. The Angels have been swept by the Astros and Dodgers back-to-back, and they've fallen four games back of Houston in the American League West as a result.

"We were up against it going with a staff day against a lineup like the Dodgers have," Scioscia said. "I tell you what, I thought we pitched great. ... Whoever was in there pitched their hearts out. Our guys got after it, we played hard and that's a good sign."

Rucinski was the pitcher called up from Triple-A Salt Lake when Wilson was placed on the DL; after surrendering the walk-off homer, he was optioned back down.

The Angels' corresponding move, which will come on Monday, will presumably be to call up a pitcher who could eat innings and help give the bullpen a breather.

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Street and setup man Joe Smith, who pitched the eighth innin Sunday -- and gave up his first home run since Aug. 10, 2014, a span of 64 appearances -- are good to go. The Angels haven't used them much during their losing streak. Several relief pitchers, though, will be unavailable on Monday. "It's definitely a concern," Scioscia said. "Some guys pitched a lot this series, pitched a lot in Houston, staff day when everybody's pitching. Trevor Gott's pitched a lot, Fernando Salas has pitched a lot. Huston and Joe are fine, they're fresh, but getting to them -- we need our starters to get to a certain point."

Angels run out of fight against Dodgers

BY DAVID ADLER AND STEVE BOURBON/ MLB.COM

LOS ANGELES -- Andre Ethier hit a walk-off home run in the 10th inning to give the Dodgers a 5-3 victory over the Angels and their fourth straight win on Sunday at Dodger Stadium. The Halos wrapped up a 1-8 road trip.

Ethier also homered in the eighth inning to put the Dodgers up, 3-2, only for the Angels to tie the game in the ninth on Chris Iannetta's RBI double. When Ethier's spot in the order came around again in the 10th, the veteran yanked a 1-1 changeup into the right-field bullpen to give the Dodgers a Freeway Series sweep.

"It was the right time today to put us over the top," Ethier said. "There's not too many times in baseball where you get to take the last shot, and that was one of those opportunities." Mat Latos allowed just one run and four hits in his Dodgers debut. The 6-foot-6 righty was pulled after six innings despite only throwing 80 pitches. The Angels' bullpen got a workout, as six relievers were called on following Cory Rasmus' three-inning spot start. Joe Smith gave up Ethier's first homer, the first the righty had allowed since last August, and Drew Rucinski gave up the walk-off for the loss.

"Tried to get ahead in the count, got to 1-1 and just made a mistake, threw a bad pitch," Rucinski said. "Frustrating."

MOMENTS THAT MATTERED

Ethier goes off: Before his walk-off heroics, Ethier put the Dodgers in the driver's seat in the eighth. After Kole Calhoun's homer in the top of the inning tied the game, Ethier responded with a solo shot that Statcast™ estimated to travel 423 feet, giving the Dodgers a 3-2 lead. "There's some momentum there for sure," Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said. "That feeling is a great feeling, though probably not as great as the feeling at the end."

It takes a village: Rucinski was essentially the last option out of the bullpen -- once he entered the game, only closer Huston Street was left -- as the the Angels had to use six relievers after Cory Rasmus' three- inning spot start in place of the injured C.J. Wilson. All the pitching changes required quite a few pinch- hitters, due to the National League venue, and the Halos also used all but one of their available position players, catcher Carlos Perez.

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"We were up against it going with a staff day against a lineup like the Dodgers have," manager Mike Scioscia said. "I tell you what, I thought we pitched great. ... Whoever was in there pitched their hearts out. Our guys got after it, we played hard and that's a good sign."

Kole shoulders the load: With the Angels' offense sputtering, Calhoun got things going with a leadoff double in the sixth inning, eventually scoring the Halos' first run on Albert Pujols' RBI groundout. Calhoun then tied the game at two with an opposite-field home run in the eighth. He was the Angels' best player in part one of the Freeway Series, also notching three hits off Zack Greinke on Friday and drawing a pinch-hit walk in the ninth inning on Saturday.

Howie homer: For the second time this series, Dodgers second baseman Howie Kendrick went deep against his former team. In a scoreless game in the third inning, and a runner on first, Kendrick blasted a 1-0 fastball over the center-field wall. He is batting .400 on his five-game hitting streak.

"Howie was good all series," Mattingly said. "You see it so many times, when one guy is traded from one place to another, they always end up doing something."

QUOTABLE

"You play 162 games, you got no choice. What are you gonna do, get down about yesterday? You're worried about yesterday, you're in the wrong business. Every day you've got to come out and prove yourself again -- prove how good you are as a team." -- Smith, on how to deal with losing streaks

SOUND SMART WITH YOUR FRIENDS

This was the Dodgers' first three-game sweep of the Freeway Series since May 19-21, 2006.

WHAT'S NEXT

Angels: Garrett Richards gets the ball for the Angels when they return to Angel Stadium Monday for the first of three games against the Indians. First pitch is set for 7:05 p.m. PT. Dodgers: The Dodgers get a day off on Monday, the club's third in the past eight days, before starting a six-game road trip in Philadelphia on Tuesday at 4:05 p.m. PT. Alex Wood will be making his debut in after being acquired in a trade with the Braves on Thursday. The series opener will also be Jimmy Rollins' first game in Philadelphia since he was traded by the Phillies in the offseason.

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Angels look to get back on track vs. Indians

BY DAVID ADLER/ MLB.COM

The Angels, coming off an ugly 1-8 road trip, will look for Garrett Richards to get their homestand started on a positive note when they open a three-game series against the Indians at Angel Stadium on Monday.

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The Halos are coming off consecutive sweeps at the hands of the Dodgers and the Astros, the latter allowing Houston to take over first place in the American League West. Richards lost the second game in that series, allowing two home runs in 6 1/3 innings. He'll match up against defending AL Cy Young Award winner Corey Kluber. After leading the Junior Circuit in wins a year ago, Kluber leads the league in losses in 2015, with 11. But he's coming off a complete-game, one-run win over the AL-best Royals. Things to know about this game

• With no designated hitter during their Interleague series at Dodger Stadium, the Angels started David Murphy in left field against right-handers, with David DeJesus coming off the bench. Now that they're heading back to Anaheim, both Murphy and DeJesus will likely be in the lineup against the right-handed Kluber.

• Richards will be making his first career start against the Indians, who are the only AL Central team he has yet to face.

• Indians second baseman Jason Kipnis was out of the lineup Sunday with right shoulder soreness. Kipnis had an MRI exam and could be headed for the disabled list.

FROM THE LA DAILY NEWS

Andre Ethier’s walk-off home run powers Dodgers to 5-3 win over Angels

BY ROBERT MORALES

Outfielder Andre Ethier hit only four home runs in 341 at-bats in 2014. It was by far the worst long-ball production of his career, but it came in a season where he was battling for playing time.

Ethier is getting more of that this year because of injuries to Yasiel Puig and Carl Crawford. A determined sort — he sprints to first base on every ground ball — Ethier is showing the Dodgers what he’s made of here in 2015.

Sunday, Ethier hit a home run in the eighth inning off Joe Smith and then a game-winning, two-run homer off Drew Rucinski with one out in the bottom of the 10th to lift the Dodgers to a 5-3 victory over the Angels before 52,116 at Dodger Stadium. The Dodgers swept the three-game Freeway Series.

Some of those fans had left after the Angels’ Chris Iannetta tied the game 3-3 in the top of the ninth inning with an RBI double to center off Dodgers reliever Pedro Baez. Those who remained went wild upon Ethier’s blast into the right-field bullpen on a changeup from Rucinski (0-2), who afterward was optioned back to Triple-A Salt Lake City.

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Howie Kendrick, formerly of the Angels, belted a two-run home run off Cory Rasmus in the third inning. It was No. 9 this season for Kendrick. The Angels got a run off Dodgers starter Mat Latos on an RBI groundout by Albert Pujols in the sixth, and tied the game 2-2 on Kole Calhoun’s 14th home run off Jim Johnson in the eighth.

Ethier gave the Dodgers a 3-2 lead with his blast in the eighth before Iannetta came through for the Angels. Ethier’s home runs were Nos. 11 and 12 in 271 at-bats.

“It’s fun when you do well,” Ethier said. “I’ll be the first one to admit that I’m pretty pissed when I don’t. I can say for sure I’ve failed a lot more than I’ve been successful. It’s that opportunity — there’s not many times in baseball where you get the last shot, or get the back-pylon throw to you with time expiring to try to tie up the game.

“... It’s fun to get that opportunity, to try your hand at that. I’m not going to back away from it.”

It was Ethier’s sixth career game-winning home run and the 12th multi-homer game of his 10-year career. He’s batting .327 (55 for 168) against the Angels in 51 games.

The Dodgers, winners of four in a row, gained a game on the San Francisco Giants and now lead them by 2 1/2 games in the NL West. At 60-45, they are a season-high 15 games over .500.

The Angels (55-49) are really struggling. It was their sixth consecutive loss and ninth in 10 games. They fell four games behind Houston in the AL West.

Latos pitched six innings and allowed just four hits and one run in his first start since being acquired last week from Miami. He struck out one and walked one on 80 pitches.

“I was a little fatigued from being jet-lagged and switching to West Coast time,” Latos said. “I was pitching down in the zone, didn’t have my best stuff. I would’ve loved to have gone out there seven innings, but that’s his (manager Don Mattingly) call.

“We’ve got other guys who can get the job done. We had two guys fresh, so let ‘em get out there and get outs.”

Baez (4-2) picked up the win.

The Angels went with a “bullpen game,” using a total of seven pitchers. Rasmus started and went three innings.

In defeat, the Angels demonstrated some grittiness that could, perhaps, help them snap out of their funk.

“We’re never going to stop battling, we’re never going to stop fighting,” Iannetta said. “We’re the same team that was winning baseball games a week ago.”

The Angels had won 17 of 20 before their current skid.

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“It’s a rough stretch,” Iannetta said. “We’re not pleased with it, we’re not happy about it. But there is nothing we can do about the last 10 days. All we’ve gotta do is focus on tomorrow and try to get a win. That’s what we’re going to try to do.

“One win turns into two and then we’re back in it. We’re still in this race. It’s a long way from over.”

Angels’ David DeJesus wore three uniforms in four-day span in 2013

BY ROBERT MORALES

It’s part of the business, but it’s never easy for a major-league baseball player when he’s traded during the course of the season. For outfielder David DeJesus, getting traded from the to the Angels on Tuesday wasn’t the most difficult situation he’s faced in this regard.

Flash back to 2013. He was traded from the to the on Aug. 19. On Aug. 23, he was shipped Tampa Bay.

“Yeah, so I was on three teams in four days,” DeJesus said Sunday before the Angels took on the Dodgers in the Freeway Series finale.

DeJesus intimated this part of the game is similar to being that kid who has to transfer to a different school in the middle of the school year.

“The toughest part is just moving everything and just meeting a whole bunch of guys that have been tight all year,” said DeJesus, 35. “They have their bonds and everything and (I’m) just a guy coming in, you know, for the time being. So that’s the hardest part about it. Just trying to fit in with everyone. You don’t want to cause the ripples and all that stuff. You want to be the guy that’s just another piece of the team, another piece of the puzzle.”

But, DeJesus said, there is a common denominator.

“We’re all here to play baseball, so we all know the struggles, the ups and downs of the game,” he said. “Things like this happen all the time.”

The really good news for DeJesus is, he has been reunited with his wife, actress Kim DeJesus, who will be appearing in the upcoming TV movie “Alexis Ronan.” She was already living in a rental in Los Angeles.

“She was super happy,” he said. “She was excited that we all get to be together. Last time we were together like this was 2013 when I was with the Cubs. It’s good just to have the family back. My son’s getting older — he’s 5 now — so he’s almost in school.”

STRUGGLING TIMES

The Angels recently won 17 of 20 games. But they had lost five in a row and eight of nine before Sunday to fall three games behind first-place Houston in the AL West.

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Manager Mike Scioscia was asked pregame if the time had come for a team meeting for some airing out.

“We talked about a couple of things in Houston after a game,” Scioscia said, alluding to a three-game series there that ended Thursday. “But these guys, they’re all playing hard and they’re all at a point of the season where some guys have been grinding it for a while.

“Like, we had Kole (Calhoun) out of the lineup yesterday, try to let him relax a little bit. If you look at Albert (Pujols) and Mike (Trout), Mike had a couple of days off, I think he responded to that.

“Albert’s a guy that just keeps beating that drum and just keeps going forward day to day.”

WEAVER CLOSE

Right-hander , on the disabled list since June 21 with left hip inflammation, threw a bullpen session Sunday and is slated for his second rehab assignment Tuesday at Single-A Inland Empire. Scioscia hinted Weaver might be close to being ready for major-league action.

“He had a ’pen today and Weave, I mean, he’s smiling,” Scioscia said. “He feels great. He’ll throw another rehab game Tuesday.”

Weaver on Thursday tossed 3 2/3 innings for Inland Empire, throwing 63 pitches — 42 for strikes. He allowed one unearned run on three hits, struck out two and walked two. Scioscia said his progress in these games will determine his return to Angels’ staff.

FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Angels Lose 6th Straight, 5-3 To Dodgers In 10

BY JOE RESNICK

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The sputtering Angels are in their worst funk of the season, and the Dodgers didn't do anything to help them out of it.

Andre Ethier hit a two-run homer in the 10th against rookie Drew Rucinski - two innings after his equally dramatic solo shot off Joe Smith - and the Angels dropped a 5-3 decision that completed the Dodgers' second-ever three-game sweep in the Freeway Series.

The loss was the Angels' season-worst sixth straight and ninth in 10 games, following a 17-3 stretch that matched the best 20-game span in franchise history, and they're four games behind first-place Houston in the AL West. The Angels, swept by the Astros in three games to open the road swing, finished their first winless trip of six or more games since 1999 (0-7).

"We're the same team that was winning baseball games a week ago," catcher Chris Iannetta said. "It's a rough stretch. We're not pleased with it, we're not happy about it. But there is nothing we can do about August 3, 2015 Page 21 of 25 the last 10 days. All we've got to do is focus on tomorrow and try to get a win. One win turns into two, and then we're back in it. We're still in this race. It's a long way from over."

Rucinski (0-2) walked Adrian Gonzalez with one out in the 10th before Ethier hit the right-hander's 1-1 changeup into the Angels' bullpen in right field for his 12th homer of the season and the Dodgers' NL- leading 131st.

"I was trying to get ahead in the count, got to 1-1 and just made a mistake with my pitch," Rucinski said.

The Dodgers' victory put them a season-high 15 games over .500 (60-45) and increased their lead in the NL West to 2 1/2 games over the San Francisco Giants, who lost 2-1 at Texas.

Right-hander Cory Rasmus, one of seven Angels pitchers, made a spot start due to an elbow injury to C.J. Wilson that may end the veteran lefty's season. Rasmus threw 50 pitches over three innings, allowing two runs and three hits.

"Our guys played hard all through the series - all through Houston, too," manager Mike Scioscia said. "Obviously, we're up against it when you're going with a staff day against a lineup like the Dodgers have. But for the most part, whoever was in their just pitched their hearts out and kept us in the game."

Two of the hits off Rasmus were by Howie Kendrick. He hit an opposite-field double off the fence in right-center his first time up, and opened the scoring in the third with his ninth homer of the season after a two-out infield single by Jimmy Rollins. Kendrick, who spent his nine previous big league seasons with the Angels, also homered in the series opener.

"Cory was terrific," Scioscia said. "Just the one fastball to Howie, and he drove it out to center field. Outside of that, you couldn't ask much more from the way he pitched."

Mat Latos yielded a run and four hits over six innings in his Dodgers debut and departed with a 2-1 lead, three days he was acquired from the Miami Marlins in a three-team, 13-player trade involving the .

But Jim Johnson - also pitching his first game with the club after coming over in the same deal - gave up a tying homer by Kole Calhoun with one out in the eighth.

Ethier, batting cleanup for the fourth time this season, regained the lead in the bottom half with a towering drive to center field on Smith's 3-1 pitch - the first home run allowed by the right-hander in 43 innings this season.

But in the ninth, with Dodgers closer Kenley Jansen unavailable because of his combined 50 pitches in the first two games of the series, Pedro Baez (4-2) gave up a first-pitch RBI double by Iannetta over the head of center fielder Joc Pederson after pinch-hitter Shane Victorino led off the inning with a single against J.P. Howell.

"We're never going to stop battling, we're never going to stop fighting," Iannetta said. "We think we're going to win every day, and that's just the nature of being a player."

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The Angels got only one runner as far as third base through the first five innings against Latos. They got on the board in the sixth with a broken-bat RBI single by Albert Pujols.

UP NEXT

Angels: Garrett Richards opposes reigning AL Cy Young Award winner Corey Kluber on Monday night in the opener of a three-game series with Cleveland. Richards, coming off back-to-back defeats to Minnesota and Houston, hasn't lost three consecutive starts since joining the rotation for good on July 27, 2013.

Dodgers: LHP Alex Wood (7-6), obtained from Atlanta before the non-waiver trading deadline, will become the 30th pitcher used by the club this season and the 16th to start a game for them when they begin a three-game set against the Phillies on Tuesday night.

Ethier’s 2 HRS Help Dodgers Beat Angels 5-3 In 10

BY JOE RESNICK

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Andre Ethier always wanted to be the guy who made the game-winning 3-pointer or catch the game-winning touchdown pass in the end zone as time expired. In baseball, his only chance at sudden death is a walkoff home run - which he has done six times in his major league career.

Ethier, starting in the cleanup spot for the fourth time this season, hit his second dramatic homer in three innings - a two-run shot in the 10th - to lead the to a three-game Freeway Series sweep with a 5-3 victory over the sputtering on Sunday.

"After three at-bats, I finally got the barrel on the ball," said Ethier, who grounded out his first time up and struck out his next two at-bats. "But it doesn't matter where they put me in the lineup. I just go out there and try to figure out a way to contribute."

The Dodgers are 4-0 when Ethier hits cleanup.

Drew Rucinski (0-2) walked Adrian Gonzalez with one out in the 10th before Ethier deposited the rookie right-hander's 1-1 pitch into the Angels' bullpen in right field for his 12th homer and the Dodgers' NL- leading 131st home run.

"I guess I did it at the right time today and put us over the top," Ethier said. "In baseball, there aren't too many times where you get to take the last shot, and that was one of those opportunities right there."

Pedro Baez (4-2) got the victory with 1 1-3 innings of relief.

Three days after he was acquired from the Miami Marlins in a three-team, 13-player trade involving the Atlanta Braves, Mat Latos yielded a run and four hits over six innings in his Dodgers debut and left with a 2-1 lead.

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But Jim Johnson - also pitching his first game with the club after coming over in the same deal - gave up a tying homer by Kole Calhoun with one out in the eighth.

Ethier regained the lead in the bottom half with a towering drive to center field on a 3-1 pitch from Joe Smith - the first home run allowed by the right-hander in 43 innings this season.

"It was one of those situations - a tie ballgame - so I just felt I should go ahead and give it a shot, put a good aggressive swing on it, see if I could get something in the air and see if I could change the game with one swing," Ethier said. "And I got the right pitch."

But in the ninth, Chris Iannetta greeted Baez with a first-pitch RBI double over the head of center fielder Joc Pederson after pinch-hitter Shane Victorino led off the inning with a single against J.P. Howell.

The Dodgers' second-ever three-game sweep of the Angels put them a season-high 15 games over .500 (60-45).

The loss was the Angels' season-worst sixth straight and ninth in 10 games, following a 17-3 stretch that matched the best 20-game span in franchise history. Houston opened this road trip with a three-game sweep. It's their first winless trip of six or more games since 1999 (0-7).

"Our guys played hard all through the series - all through Houston, too," manager Mike Scioscia said. "Obviously, we're up against it when you're going with a staff against a lineup like the Dodgers have. But for the most part, whoever was in there just pitched their hearts out and kept us in the game."

The Angels got only one baserunner as far as third base through the first five innings. The Angels got on the board in the sixth with a broken-bat RBI single by Albert Pujols.

GROWING PAINS

Pederson was back in the lineup after getting benched by manager Don Mattingly for the previous two games. The rookie went 0 for 4 with three strikeouts, and has fanned 10 times in his last 13 at-bats to raise his total to an NL-worst 128. He is batting just .221 despite 21 home runs, and is 10 for 55 with three RBIs since playing in the All-Star Game.

UP NEXT

Angels: Garrett Richards opposes reigning AL Cy Young Award winner Corey Kluber on Monday night in the opener of a three-game series with Cleveland.

Dodgers: LHP Alex Wood (7-6), obtained from Atlanta before the non-waiver trading deadline, will become the 30th pitcher used by the club this season and the 16th to start a game when they begin a three-game set against the Phillies on Tuesday night.

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FROM YAHOO SPORTS

Indians-Angels Preview

BY NICOLINO DIBENDETTO

The Cleveland Indians are the bottom of the AL Central, and David Murphy was one of several veterans shipped out prior to the trade deadline.

Corey Kluber, though, isn't giving up.

Last year's AL Cy Young Award winner will try to build on one of his best performances of the season Monday night when the Indians face Murphy and the sliding Los Angeles Angels for the first time since the deal.

Cleveland (48-56) dealt Murphy, Brandon Moss and reliever Marc Rzepczynski away in separate trades before Friday's deadline - moves signaling the Indians were preparing for the future.

Kluber (6-11, 3.44 ERA) doesn't see it that way with Cleveland six games back of Minnesota for the AL's second wild-card spot.

"It's not over yet. We're not eliminated from anything," Kluber told MLB's official website. "So, I think while the front office does their job, we can't really worry about anything but the 25 guys in here trying to come each day and win. Hopefully, we can win enough of them that we get to play in the postseason."

That will require major improvement from the offense, which is hitting .236 and averaging 2.6 runs during a 3-8 stretch. Cleveland had a .202 average and totaled seven runs while settling for a four-game split with Oakland after a 2-1, 10-inning loss Sunday.

"We have to do a better job at manufacturing runs or scoring runs," manager Terry Francona said. "We're getting good pitching but we have to win those games."

Kluber finally got some support Wednesday, tossing a five-hitter in a 12-1 win over Kansas City. That increased his average run support from a major league-low 2.61 to 3.15.

Another strong offensive showing will be tough with All-Star Jason Kipnis - the team leader with a .326 average - expected to go on the disabled list with a sore shoulder.

Murphy, who was hitting .296 with the Indians, is just 2 for 11 in four games with Los Angeles (55-49). However, the team is hitting .194 and has totaled 15 runs during a six-game slide that's part of a 1-9 stretch.

The Angels, who hold the AL's first wild-card spot and are four games behind West-leading Houston, haven't lost seven in a row since April 30-May 6, 2010.

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They lost 5-3 in 10 innings to the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday, finishing their first winless trip of six or more games since 1999.

"We're the same team that was winning baseball games a week ago," catcher Chris Iannetta said. "It's a rough stretch. We're not pleased with it, we're not happy about it. But there is nothing we can do about the last 10 days. All we've got to do is focus on (Monday) and try to get a win.

"One win turns into two, and then we're back in it. We're still in this race. It's a long way from over."

Garrett Richards (10-8, 3.37) is facing the Indians for the first time, and he's seeking to avoid losing a career-high third straight start. The right-hander has given up seven runs and three homers in 14 1-3 innings over his last two games following Wednesday's 6-3 loss at Houston.

"I have to keep us in the game. I have to give us a chance to win," said Richards, who is 6-2 with a 2.08 ERA in nine home starts.

Kluber struggled there and was charged with a 6-4 loss in his only meeting with the Angels on April 29, 2014. He was tagged for four runs and eight hits with four walks while hitting a batter in 4 2-3 innings.