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Clips

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Today’s Clips Contents FROM LOS ANGELES TIMES (Page 3)

Yankees rally for four runs in fifth inning to beat Angels, 6-2

It's a multi-system failure for Angels in 6-2 loss to Yankees

Yankees defeat Angels, 6-2, to complete series sweep FROM THE OC REGISTER (Page 6)

Wilson adds to Angels' pitching woes as losing streak reaches five games after loss in New York

Final: Angels pitchers continue to struggle in loss to Yankees

Angels Notes: Grant Green lost in the shuffle

FROM ANGELS.COM (Page 9)

Angels seeking answers after 5th straight loss FROM MLB.COM (Page 10)

Scout recalls checking out Trout for '09 Draft

FROM FOX SPORTS WEST (Page 11)

Week ahead for Angels: On road vs. Rays, home series against Athletics

FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (Page 13)

Angels recall right-hander Drew Rucinski from Triple-A RECAP: Yankees sweep Angels, 6-2

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FROM LOS ANGELES TIMES

Yankees rally for four runs in fifth inning to beat Angels, 6-2

BY MIKE DIGIOVANNA

KEY MOMENT: Within a span of 11 pitches in the fifth inning, the Yankees turned a 2-1 deficit into a 5-2 lead. Chris Young led off with a home run to left, John Ryan Murphy and Didi Gregorius hit one-out singles, and Brett Gardner lined a three-run homer to right off Angels starter C.J. Wilson, who kicked himself for throwing a four-seam fastball to Gardner instead of a sinking two-seamer that might have induced a double play. "I have to figure out a way to get the ball on the ground in that situation," Wilson said.

AT THE PLATE: Mike Trout and Albert Pujols, who were a combined four for 20 against Yankees starter CC Sabathia, hit consecutive homers in the first, Pujols' shot giving him 535 career homers and moving him ahead of Jimmie Foxx into sole possession of 17th place on the all-time list. But the Angels had two hits from the second inning on and grounded into double plays in the sixth and seventh.

ON THE MOUND: Wilson gave up six runs and seven hits, three of them homers, in seven innings, striking out eight and walking none, to fall to 3-5 with a 3.92 earned-run average. He has a 6.00 ERA in his last five starts. Sabathia gave up two runs and five hits in six innings to improve to 3-7, and Yankees relievers Dellin Betances and Andrew Miller struck out five of six batters in the eighth and ninth.

EJECT BUTTON: Sabathia took exception to Dan Bellino's strike zone and was ejected after inducing Kole Calhoun's inning-ending double-play grounder in the sixth. That sent Yankees Manager Joe Girardi over the dugout rail and onto the field, where he kicked dirt on Bellino in a fiery argument that got him ejected.

DRAFT UPDATE: The Angels have the 26th pick in the first round of baseball's draft, which begins Monday night and runs through Wednesday, and will take the best available player, regardless of position, with that pick. But after emphasizing pitching in the last two drafts, the Angels will target position players and premium offensive players. The Angels have a draft pool of $5.05 million, the 26th highest in the major leagues, with $2.034 million allotted for the top pick.

ROSTER MOVE: The Angels, needing some bullpen coverage for a few days, recalled Drew Rucinski from triple-A Salt Lake on Sunday.

UP NEXT: The Angels are off Monday. Right-hander Matt Shoemaker (3-4, 5.08 ERA) will oppose Tampa Bay right-hander Nathan Karns (3-2, 3.63) at Tropicana Field on Tuesday at 4 p.m. PDT. TV: FS West; Radio: 830.

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It's a multi-system failure for Angels in 6-2 loss to Yankees

BY MIKE DIGIOVANNA

It's difficult enough for the Angels, with their spotty offense, to win games when they get superb pitching. String a few shoddy starts together, like they did the last week, and they have virtually no chance.

A rotation that leads the American League with 33 quality starts was torched for 29 earned runs, including 10 home runs, in 24 1/3 innings of the last five games, an unsightly ERA of 10.73.

It's no shock that the Angels, on the heels of a five-game winning streak, lost all five games, the latest Sunday's 6-2 clunker at the hands of the New York Yankees, who rode a quick-strike, four-run rally against left-hander C.J. Wilson in the fifth inning to a three-game sweep in Yankee Stadium.

"When you're not scoring runs, there is a premium on stopping runs," Manager Mike Scioscia said. "We've held our heads above water purely with what we've done on the pitching side.

"A couple of guys on the offensive side have done what they can do, but you can have an incredible offense, and everything you do will still hinge on your rotation giving you a chance to get into the flow of the game."

Two months into the season, the Angels are 28-29 and in third place in the AL West, 5 1/2 games behind the Houston Astros and still "trying to find our identity," as Wilson said.

Despite a recent power surge in which they've hit 20 home runs in 11 games, the Angels rank 26th in the major leagues with a .238 average and .299 on-base percentage and 25th with a .680 on-base-plus-slugging mark.

Mike Trout and Albert Pujols, who hit consecutive home runs in the first inning Sunday, have combined for 31 home runs and 62 runs batted in, and Kole Calhoun (.266, five home runs, 25 RBIs), David Freese (nine homers, 31 RBIs), Erick Aybar (.265) and Johnny Giavotella (.277, 21 RBIs) have had decent seasons.

But three key players — Matt Joyce (.188, four homers, 17 RBIs), Chris Iannetta (.171, three homers, 14 RBIs) and C.J. Cron (.192, one home run, six RBIs) — have lagged far behind, putting a strain on the top of the order. The bottom five hitters Sunday were 0 for 15.

"We need to step our game, we need to play more consistent baseball if we're going to reach our goal," Scioscia said. "We feel it's in this team. But we're making a turn through two months of the season, and some guys just haven't hit their stride. That's something we need to pay a lot of attention to."

The Angels' problems Sunday extended to the basepaths. They had a chance to extend a lead to 3-0 in the third inning when, with runners at first base and third base and one out, Freese lifted an apparent sacrifice fly into the right-field corner.

But Trout tagged from first base and was thrown out at second base by right fielder Carlos Beltran before Aybar, who tagged from third base, crossed the plate, negating the run.

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"Two runs is not much of a lead in Yankee Stadium, but what hurts is that we didn't score that third run," Wilson said. "We were just very aggressive and got beat by an inch at second."

Scioscia called the play "a glitch," saying Trout "got a little aggressive on his end," and Aybar "got caught a little coming off third and anticipating scoring easy."

It was hard to fault the players, though.

"No one plays harder than Mike or Erick," Scioscia said. "It's really an anomaly that something like that would happen, but it did."

Said Trout: "When you're winning, you don't pick apart little things. When you lose, every little thing stands out."

Until the Angels can support solid pitching with a consistently productive offense, they won't have much margin for error.

"We have to dig deep and execute the fundamentals," Wilson said. "I know that sounds cheesey, but that's the one thing I feel we haven't done as well as we can. We have a lot of guys who have amazing physical talent, but we have to execute the fundamentals like moving runners over, stuff like that. You can't just rely on homers."

Yankees defeat Angels, 6-2, to complete series sweep

BY MIKE DIGIOVANNA

The New York Yankees capitalized on a lightning-quick rally in the fifth inning -- scoring four runs in a span of 11 pitches -- en route to a 6-2 victory over the Angels on Sunday, completing a three-game sweep in Yankee Stadium. The Angels, who extended their losing streak to a season-high five games, had a 2-1 lead on the strength of back-to-back first-inning home runs by Mike Trout (his 16th of the season) and Albert Pujols (his 15th) off Yankees left-hander CC Sabathia. Then Chris Young opened the bottom of the fifth with a solo homer to left field off Angels starter C.J. Wilson to tie the score, 2-2. Jose Pirela grounded out, but John Ryan Murphy and Didi Gregorius singled, and leadoff man Brett Gardner lined a three-run homer to right for a 5-2 lead. Pirela led off the seventh with a solo homer off Wilson, who allowed six runs and seven hits in seven innings, striking out eight and walking none. The Angels rotation has been a strength for most of the season, but starting pitchers have gone 0-4 with a 10.73 earned-run average over the last five games, allowing 29 earned runs in 24 1/3 innings. Sabathia allowed two runs and five hits in six innings, striking out seven and walking one, to earn the win, but was ejected by home-plate umpire Dan Bellino after Kole Calhoun’s double-play grounder to end the sixth. Sabathia apparently took exception to Bellino’s strike zone and was ejected before he even crossed the first-base line on the way to the dugout. That sent Yankees Manager Joe Girardi jumping over the dugout railing and onto the field, where he kicked dirt on Bellino in a fiery argument that got him ejected as well. The afternoon started well for the Angels when Trout and Pujols, who were a combined four for 20 against Sabathia, each homered in the first.

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The Angels had a chance to extend the lead to 3-0 in the third when, with runners on first and third and one out, David Freese lifted an apparent sacrifice fly into the right-field corner. But Trout, who was on first, tagged up and was thrown out at second by right fielder Carlos Beltran, and Bellino ruled correctly that the tag at second occurred before Erick Aybar crossed the plate, negating the run for the Angels. Sabathia retired the next seven batters, five by strikeouts, and the Angels squandered scoring opportunities in the sixth and seventh innings when they grounded into double plays.

FROM THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

Wilson adds to Angels' pitching woes as losing streak reaches five games after loss in New York

BY JEFF FLETCHER

NEW YORK – After the Angels’ 6-2 loss to the New York Yankees on Sunday afternoon, Mike Scioscia

summoned one of his most frequently used sayings.

“The last thing you think about as a manager when you go to sleep is your rotation,” he said, “and the

first thing you think about when you wake up is your rotation.”

There may not be much sleep in between, the way things have gone lately for the Angels.

A season of fits and starts for the Angels is suddenly in another valley, this time because of a pitching

staff – specifically a rotation – that had performed well for most of the first two months.

During the Angels’ season-long five-game losing streak, their starters have combined for a 10.73 ERA.

Each starter has allowed at least five runs in that span.

“Right now we’ve gone around the rotation and just haven’t gotten it done,” Scioscia said. “It’s in this

group. It wasn’t in this group the last time around the rotation, but they’ll get back on the beam.”

C.J. Wilson was balancing on the beam nicely for the first four innings on Sunday, clinging to a 2-1 lead.

In the fifth, though, he allowed a leadoff homer to Chris Young.

An out and two singles later, Wilson tried to go in with a fastball to Brett Gardner. Gardner yanked it

into the right-field seats for a three-run homer.

While the Angels have been burned by homers this weekend that barely cleared the fence at hitter-

friendly Yankee Stadium, Wilson didn’t use that as an excuse.

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“I have to figure out a way to get the ball on the ground in that situation,” he said.

The Angels sloppiness on Sunday wasn’t limited to the mound, though.

Mike Trout and Albert Pujols hit back-to-back homers in the first inning – career No.535 for Pujols,

moving him alone into 17th place on the all-time list, one behind Mickey Mantle – and the Angels had a

chance to take a 3-0 lead against CC Sabathia in the third.

Their apparent third run was erased, though, because Erick Aybar didn’t touch home plate, trying to

score on a fly ball, before Trout made the third out of the inning trying to go to second.

Scioscia called it a “baserunning glitch.”

“Erick got caught a little just coming off third and anticipating scoring easy, and Mike got aggressive on

his end,” Scioscia said. “By the time Erick realized it, we lost the play. That’s just one of those things

that happens.”

Those are the kind of things that happen to a team going the wrong direction. The Angels’ losing streak

has dropped them below .500, at 28-29, for the first time since May12. They are 51/2 games behind

the Houston Astros, in third place.

From Wilson’s perspective, the offense has been too reliant on the raw talent of the players.

“We have to I guess just dig deep and execute the fundamentals,” Wilson said. “I know that sounds

cheesy, but that’s the one thing I feel like we haven’t done as well as we can. We have a lot of guys that

have amazing physical talent, but we have to execute the fundamentals like moving the runners over

and stuff like that.”

Truth be told, the Angels have had issues in a lot of areas, and Scioscia’s patience is running out.

“We need to step up our game,” he said. “We need to play more consistent baseball if we’re going to

reach our goal. It’s in this team. We feel it’s in this team. But we’re making a turn now through a couple

months of the season and some guys just haven’t hit stride and that’s something we need to pay a lot

of attention to.”

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Final: Angels pitchers continue to struggle in loss to Yankees

BY JEFF FLETCHER

NEW YORK – Angels pitchers, who for most of the early part of the season carried the hitters, are now in a rut. C.J. Wilson gave up six runs, including three homers, in the Angels’ 6-2 loss to the New York Yankees on Sunday. The Angels, who were swept in the three-game series in New York, have now allowed 34 runs in a season-long five-game losing streak. Their starters have allowed at least five runs in each game, with a 10.73 ERA. With the loss, the Angels slipped to 28-29, back under .500 for the first time since May 12. The only positives for the Angels were homers by Mike Trout and Albert Pujols. Pujols hit his 15th homer of the year, and the 535th of his career. That moved him alone into 17th place on the all-time list, one behind Mickey Mantle. Their back-to-back homers put the Angels up 2-0 in the first, and they appeared to take a 3-0 lead in the third. The run, however, was wiped away. Trout tried to go to second on a fly ball to right field as Erick Aybar was tagging from third. Trout was tagged out at second for the third out of the inning just before Aybar touched the plate. Manager Mike Scioscia came out to argue, but he did not use a replay challenge on the play. The Yankees took the lead with four runs in the fifth, three on Brett Gardner's homer into the short right-field porch.

Angels Notes: Grant Green lost in the shuffle

BY JEFF FLETCHER

NEW YORK – Grant Green can’t get a foothold in the major leagues.

Green was on his way back to Salt Lake City on Sunday, less than two weeks after the Angels had recalled him. The Angels needed to make a roster move because they needed bullpen coverage after getting 7 1/3 innings of relief following Garrett Richards short outing on Saturday. Right-hander Drew Rucinski was recalled.

The Angels could have reasonably sent out either Green or Efren Navarro.

“I don’t know if there were many projected at-bats for Greenie, just like there might not be for Efren,” Manager Mike Scioscia said Sunday. “Where we are right now, Green needs to go down and swing. Well re-evaluate this thing every 10 days and see where we are.”

Green was 5 for 20 with the Angels. He has hit .329 in Triple-A this year.

A day earlier, Scioscia had conceded that Green simply hasn’t had an opportunity to show he deserves to stay in the majors.

“Like any player, its tough when you get a small snap shot of playing time to, first, show what you can do and, second, stay where you need to be to be productive,” Scioscia said. “It’s tough. Grant is caught

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in that right now. He definitely has a role for us, but it might not be the one where he’s getting the at -bats that I know he needs to prove where he is offensively.”

ALSO

Cory Rasmus is throwing again, but not ready to begin a rehab assignment, Scioscia said Sunday. Rasmus has been on the disabled list since spring training after undergoing abdominal surgery. He had a setback in late May when he hurt his back, but he’s past that now, Scioscia said…

Matt Joyce got his third start of the year against a left-handed pitcher. In the last two, Sunday and May 24, the Angels had no alternatives because of Collin Cowgill’s injury. “We all feel Matt is starting to swing the bat a little better,” Scioscia said. “Lately it’s coming in dribs and drabs. It’s not like he’s where he will end up up, but there’s no doubt they are better at-bats. He’s taking his walks when they are there.”…

Rucinski was in Nashville on Saturday morning with Triple-A Salt Lake City. He then flew with the team back to Salt Lake, via Denver. Then about 8 p.m. in Salt Lake, he got the call that he had to be an 11 p.m. red-eye to New York. He arrived in New York at 5:30 a.m.

FROM ANGELS.COM

Angels seeking answers after 5th straight loss By Alden Gonzalez / MLB.com

NEW YORK -- A five-game winning streak has been followed immediately by a five-game losing streak for the Angels. Nine weeks of this season have passed, and they're a game below .500, only two games behind where they were last year after 57 games, but way back with regards to run-differential. Early on, it was their rotation that kept them afloat. And now that the starters are struggling, the Angels can't win. "We need to step up our game," Angels manager Mike Scioscia after Sunday's 6-2 loss, which marked the first time his team has been swept at the new Yankee Stadium. "We need to play more consistent baseball if we're going to reach our goal. It's in this team. We feel it's in this team. But we're making a turn now through a couple months of the season and some guys just haven't hit stride, and that's something we need to pay a lot of attention to." Over the last five games, the Angels' starters have combined to give up 29 runs in 24 1/3 innings, increasing their ERA from 3.56 (eighth in the Majors) to 4.07 (15th). Jered Weaver gave up three wall-scrapers on Friday, Garrett Richards was charged with six runs in the very first inning on Saturday and C.J. Wilson let the Yankees pull away with a four-run fifth on Sunday, giving up a leadoff homer to Chris Young and a three-run shot to Brett Gardner. The Angels began the series finale with first-inning back-to-back homers from Mike Trout and Albert Pujols, who moved past Jimmie Foxx for sole possession of 17th place on the all-time list with No. 535. But then CC Sabathia and his 5.70 ERA began to carve up an Angels offense that still can't produce consistently, retiring 15 of his next 20 batters before getting ejected to end the sixth.

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By then, the Angels were pretty much done. "It's a missed opportunity," Chris Iannetta said of following five straight wins with five straight losses, with the first two coming at home against the Rays. "The guys on the mound have been doing a really great job, just this week has been a little bit off. You're going to have that over the course of the season, but we need to put it together on the offensive side." The Angels went 3-for-23 with runners in scoring position in the three-game series, which should come as no surprise. The top five hitters in their lineup -- Trout, Pujols,Erick Aybar, Kole Calhoun, David Freese -- have had their individual hot streaks, but they haven't really bunched them together. Johnny Giavotella has been a revelation, but he can't carry this offense. Matt Joyce is still batting .188, Iannetta is at .171 and Scioscia doesn't really know where to turn for that ninth bat. He tried Kirk Nieuwenhuis for a little while, and now he's giving C.J. Cron a second chance. When the Yankees brought in a lefty to pitch to the left-handed-hitting Joyce in Sunday's seventh inning, Scioscia had to pinch-hit with Taylor Featherston, a rookie with two hits in 30 at-bats. "We've been facing some great pitchers the last couple of days, weeks, and had some tough matchups," Trout said. "But we can't make excuses. We have to perform, win games." Trout's Angels are 28-29 now, 5 1/2 games back of the Astros and two games back of the Rangers in the American League West. They weren't much better by this time last year, at 30-27. But they sported a run-differential of plus-30, an indication that they were a lot more talented than their record showed through the first 57 games of 2014, a year in which they went on to win 98 games. Through 57 games in 2015, the Angels' run-differential is minus-5. "We have to just dig deep and execute the fundamentals," Wilson said. "I know that sounds cheesy, but that's the one thing I feel like we haven't done as well as we can. We have a lot of guys that have amazing physical talent, but we have to execute the fundamentals like moving the runners over and stuff like that. You're going to get your homers from an offense like that, but you can't just rely on homers."

FROM MLB.COM

Scout recalls checking out Trout for '09 Draft CHICAGO -- Nick Hostetler still can remember scouting Mike Trout prior to the 2009 Draft on a cold Saturday afternoon in New Jersey. Trout walked three times in the first game of a doubleheader for Millville Senior High School and finished 1-for-3 with a strikeout in the second game. "You saw a big, strong, thick, athletic kid, and he could run a little bit," said the White Sox assistant scouting director, who is in town preparing for the 2015 Draft, which begins Monday. "But it's a high school bat. "You could see there were some physical tools. But to think that he would be Mickey Mantle, that's a great job by the Angels." The White Sox passed on Trout at pick No. 23 and went with left-handed-hitting outfielder Jared Mitchell. The rest, as they say, is a tough bit of history. Trout has become one of the best all-around players in the game, winning the 2014 American League MVP Award after finishing second the previous two seasons.

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Mitchell no longer is part of the White Sox organization. Moments like this exist for every team, and for every missed star, there are two or three picks that work out as expected. There also are passes that work in a team's favor, such as when the Phillies took Chicago prep sensation Jeff Jackson at No. 4 and a Hall of Famer named Frank Thomas fell to the White Sox at No. 7 in the 1989 Draft. In the case of Mitchell vs. Trout, Hostetler believes that Mitchell's left ankle tendon tear -- suffered during Spring Training and costing the football/baseball standout from LSU the 2010 season -- impeded his development. "I'll go to my grave saying that if Jared wouldn't have gotten hurt, I don't know if he would have been Mike Trout, that's a lofty expectation," Hostetler said. "I think it would be different. "We'd be looking at a starting center fielder, a leadoff guy with stolen bases. That injury, it's unfortunate. Going back again, seeing what it was, we'd do it differently. At the same time, in that moment, I think our guys had what fit our organization best at the time." As Hostetler points out, many other teams passed on Trout. The Angels selectedRandal Grichuk one spot ahead of the superstar. "If you get it right, that's your job," Hostetler said of the Draft. "If you miss it, you're an idiot for missing. I get it. It's sports. It's the manager's thing. You win, you are supposed to. If you lose, you can't manage. We know what we are signing up for. It comes with the territory." The 2015 Draft will take place Monday through Wednesday, beginning with the Draft preview show on MLB.com and MLB Network on Monday at 5 p.m. CT. Live Draft coverage from MLB Network's Studio 42 begins at 6 p.m., with the top 75 picks being streamed on MLB.com and broadcast on MLB Network. MLB.com's exclusive coverage of Day 2 begins with a live Draft show at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, with exclusive coverage of Day 3 beginning at noon Wednesday. MLB.com's coverage includes Draft Central, the Top 200 Draft Prospects list and Draft Tracker, a live interactive application that includes a searchable database of over 1,700 Draft-eligible players. Every selection will be tweeted live from@MLBDraftTracker, and you can also keep up to date by following @MLBDraft. And get into the Draft conversation by tagging your tweets with #mlbdraft.

FROM FOX SPORTS WEST

Week ahead for Angels: On road vs. Rays, home series against Athletics By Rahshaun Haylock

The week ahead

Monday will give the Angels time to think about what happened during theirdisappointing weekend

visit to New York. Following the off day, the team will open up a three-game series in Tampa against

the Rays. It will be the second meeting with Tampa in as many weeks. The Angels will then return

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home to host Oakland for the weekend, beginning Friday. All Angels game this week can be seen

on FOX Sports West.

The week behind

After sweeping from the Tigers the week prior, things just went downhill for the Angels. Tampa was in

town for three at the beginning of the week and took two of those games. One was thanks to a 15-

strikeout gem from Rays starter Chris Archer last Tuesday. On Friday, the Halos opened up a three

game-set with the Yankees and were swept out of the Bronx. Jered Weaver and Garrett Richards gave

up seven earned runs and six earned runs, respectively, in the first two games. Richards didn't make it

out of the first inning. Sunday's loss in the series finale extended the Angels losing streak to five

games.

Record and standings

The Angels enter Monday 28-29 on the year and have fallen to third place in the American League

West. The Angels trail the second place Rangers by two games and the division leading Astros by 5.5

games.

Thumb's up

Albert Pujols continues to swing a hot bat -- he went deep again on Sunday for his fourth homer of

the week. It was also No. 535 of his career, which moved him past Jimmie Foxx into sole possession

of 17th on the all-time home run list andone behind Mickey Mantle.

Thumb's down

Garrett Richards' is in the middle of what he calls a "rough patch." The Angels starter didn't make it

out of the first inning on Saturday against the Yankees, tossing just 0.2 innings, while allowing five hits,

six earned runs and two walks. During his last four starts, Richards is 2-2 with a 7.91 ERA and

opponents are hitting .329 off of him.

Player to watch

Mike Scioscia decided to shake up the rotation with a couple of off days on the horizon. That meant

Hector Santiago and Matt Shoemaker moving to the bullpen for a short time to be used if needed.

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Santiago's number was called on Saturday during Richards' short outing. Santiago threw 45 pitches in

3.2 innings of work. Shoemaker is expected to start on Tuesday in the series opener against the Rays.

Santiago is slated to return to the rotation on Friday in the series opener against Oakland. It's going to

be interesting to see how Santiago fares after having to make an appearance out of the bullpen in

between starts.

Stat to watch

After tying a season high with a five-game win streak to start the week, the Angels finished the week

setting a season-high with five consecutive losses. The Halos will enter Tampa this week riding that

losing streak, facing a team they dropped two of three to last week.

FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Angels recall right-hander Drew Rucinski from Triple-A

NEW YORK (AP) -- The Los Angeles Angels have recalled right-hander Drew Rucinski from Triple-A Salt

Lake before Sunday's game against the New York Yankees.

Rucinski takes the roster spot of infielder Grant Green. He was optioned to Salt Lake on Saturday night

after the Angles lost to the Yankees 8-2 for their fourth straight loss.

The 26-year-old Rucinski made two appearances this year for the Angles, including his first major league

start. He's 0-1 with a 7.71 ERA in 4 2-3 innings. He made his big league debut last season.

RECAP: Yankees sweep Angels, 6-2

NEW YORK — CC Sabathia pitched six sharp innings before being ejected for arguing balls and

strikes, Brett Gardner hit a tiebreaking, three-run homer Sunday and the New York Yankees won their

season-high sixth straight game, 6-2 over the Los Angeles Angels.

Jose Pirela hit his first big league homer and Chris Young also connected offC.J. Wilson (3-5) for New

York, which came back to win after building big leads in the first two games of the series. The Yankees

swept the Angels, losers of five in a row, in a series of at least three games for the first time since

2003.

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Sabathia (3-7) gave up back-to-back homers to Mike Trout and Albert Pujols in the first inning but then

breezed through a struggling Angles lineup the rest of the way, notching his 2,500th career strikeout in

the fifth.

Pujols' homer was his 535th, breaking a tie with Jimmie Foxx for 17th place on the career list.

After getting Kole Calhoun to end the sixth with a double-play grounder, Sabathia indicated his

displeasure with the strike zone as he walked off the field, pointing to the ground and shouting at plate

umpire Dan Bellino.

Bellino tossed the big lefty as he crossed the first base line, and manager Joe Girardi jumped the

dugout railing and raced toward home plate. He was quickly ejected, too. Sabathia, meanwhile,

changed his path and hustled toward home. He was physically restrained by a teammate as he yelled

at Bellino.

It was the second consecutive solid start for Sabathia in a trying season. He followed up a two-run,

three-hit outing in Seattle by giving up five hits and two runs with a walk and seven strikeouts.

On regular rest, Sabathia was pitching in place of Michael Pineda, who had his turn skipped as the

Yankees manage the innings workload for the injury-prone righty.

Wilson worked neatly into the fifth, allowing only Didi Gregorius' RBI grounder. But Young led off the

inning with his first homer since May 2 before John Ryan Murphy and Gregorius singled. Gardner then

lined a shot to the short right-field porch for a 5-2 lead.

Pirela homered off Wilson to start the seventh. Wilson gave up seven hits and six runs in seven innings.

The Angels ran themselves out of a run in the third. Erick Aybar, jogging home on David Freese's fly to

the corner in right, failed to cross the plate before Trout was nabbed at second for a double play on a

strong throw by Carlos Beltran.

TRAINER'S ROOM

Angels: With a day off Monday, manager Mike Scioscia said he didn't see the need to get reliever Joe

Smith or closerHuston Street into a game just for work even after not pitching for four days. "They've

pitched a lot. I don't see that four or five days off is necessarily a bad thing, if it comes to that,"

Scioscia said.

Yankees: CF Jacoby Ellsbury (knee sprain) is making progress but there is no date yet for him to take

batting practice. ... Girardi said he would talk after the game with general manager Brian Cashman

about the return of infielder Brendan Ryan. He has been out since the start of the season with a calf

strain.

UP NEXT

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Angles: RHP Matt Shoemaker (3-4) starts at Tampa Bay on Tuesday. The Angels took two of three from

the Rays last week in Anaheim, California.

Yankees: Masahiro Tanaka (3-1) makes his second start Tuesday since a DL stint when New York opens

a two-game set against Washington. The Japanese right-hander struck out a season-high nine in a win

over Seattle his last time out.