Not too way back, the Los Angeles Angels have been a two-man present led by the dynamic Shohei Ohtani and Mike Trout.
Quick ahead to now and so they’re barely a one-man present today, led by the oft-injured Trout and a forged of supporting characters. However that hasn’t hindered the Angels from discovering some current success.
With their 10-5 win over the Athletics in Sacramento on Thursday, the Angels secured their seventh consecutive win, the membership’s longest successful streak since 2022. The Angels have additionally gone 11-5 of their final 16 contests, together with a Freeway Sequence sweep over the Dodgers final weekend.
Successful seven video games in a row is spectacular, but it surely’s how the Angels have completed this feat that basically stands out: They’ve achieved all of it with out Trout.
Trout is, predictably, on the shelf as he offers with a bone bruise in his left knee. Nonetheless, he is near returning to sport motion — and maybe at simply the suitable time as his Halos are heating up.
Los Angeles is proving it could possibly get the job achieved with out the veteran outfielder, although, due to key contributions from catcher Logan O’Hoppe and outfielder Taylor Ward, each of whom have 14 residence runs this season.
Curiously, the Angels are a middle-of-the-pack offensive workforce by OPS (.706) this season, and their employees ERA is 5.01 on the season, sixth worst in MLB. Fairly merely, Los Angeles appears to be overachieving, and that is a testomony to the legendary Ron Washington, whose regular hand is undoubtedly wielding affect over the Halos’ clubhouse.
Regardless of the nice vibes in Anaheim in the mean time, the 24-25 Angels stay on tempo for simply 79 wins in 2025, as they’ve but to cross again over the .500 threshold even with this present win streak.
Nonetheless, this workforce was purported to be a bottom-feeder within the American League. Whereas the Halos could nicely end in that place when the mud settles, we will nonetheless admire the work Washington has achieved with the Trout-less Angels to date.
