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Today’s Clips Contents

FROM THE LOS ANGELES TIMES (Page 3)

Angels starter Andrew Heaney to have elbow surgery

Angels count on home runs and RBIs from Albert Pujols, even as his batting average falls

FROM THE OC REGISTER (Page 5)

Fan Friday: Rob Rohm’s man cave is jam-packed with Angels memories

Angels’ Andrew Heaney to undergo Tommy John surgery after lack of progress from stem-cell treatment

In a season filled with struggle for the Angels, Mike Trout is actually getting better

On deck: Angels at Red Sox, Friday, 4 p.m.

FROM ANGELS.COM (Page 11)

Heaney to undergo Tommy John surgery

Ex-teammates back to making sweet music

FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (Page 15)

Angels’ Heaney to undergo Tommy John surgery

FROM FOX SPORTS (Page 16)

Angels-Red Sox Preview

Angels on pace for worst record in franchise history

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FROM THE LOS ANGELES TIMES

Angels starter Andrew Heaney to have elbow surgery

Pedro Moura

The Angels announced left-hander Andrew Heaney will undergo Tommy John surgery Friday in Los Angeles. The decision was made after his second checkup, Monday, on the progress of a stem-cell injection he received eight weeks ago.

He will miss the remaining half of this season, and, likely, all of 2017.

After his first start of the season on April 5, Heaney told the team he felt tightness in his forearm. After extensive examination, a strained flexor tendon became the diagnosis, and initial instructions were simply to rest.

He resumed throwing not two weeks later. Then, the team shut him down during a trip, saying his rehab had "plateaued." Heaney said then doctors told him, "'You can't get any better trying to throw through it. Let's go ahead and shut it down and re-evaluate it and make sure that we're 100% when we start getting back on it.'"

Two weeks later, when it became clear that his ulnar collateral ligament was partially torn, he opted to undergo stem-cell therapy. If it worked, he'd be able to pitch part of this season, and, presumably, next year. He received the injection of his own cells and then waited six weeks until his first checkup, during which an ultrasound suggested the ligament was healing.

The latest examination showed no healing, according to General Manager Billy Eppler, and on Thursday the team decided surgery was "the necessary course of action," according to a statement.

Dodgers physician Dr. Neal ElAttrache will perform the surgery. Heaney received the stem-cell therapy at the same clinic where Dr. ElAttrache works.

The Angels obtained the 25-year-old Heaney from the Dodgers in December 2014 for second baseman Howie Kendrick. The Dodgers had just acquired him from Miami for second baseman Dee Gordon.

After a rough spring training, Heaney recorded a 3.49 earned-run average over 18 MLB starts last season and opened 2016 as the Angels' No. 2 starter.

Their ace, Garrett Richards, underwent the same stem-cell treatment two weeks after Heaney, in May. His first checkup indicated healing in his UCL, just as Heaney's did.

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In September, Heaney sold stock in his future earnings, receiving $3.34 million from Fantex in exchange for 10%t of everything he earns as a professional pitcher. He was a 2012 first-round pick by the Marlins out of Oklahoma State.

Angels count on home runs and RBIs from Albert Pujols, even as his batting

average falls

Bill Shaikin

Albert Pujols is batting .247. That is a season high.

The Angels have long since made their peace with the Pujols of Anaheim not being the Pujols of St. Louis, the three-time National League most valuable player and most feared hitter in the game. They are gratified that his power remains, and with it they believe his productivity does too.

Pujols is on pace to hit 29 home runs and drive in 103 runs this year. If he plays out the season at that pace, he would average 32 homers and 102 RBI in each of his four full seasons with the Angels. (He sat out the last two months of the 2013 season because of an injury.)

However, he is hitting ground balls at the highest rate of his career, and opposing defenses are shifting against him at the highest rate of his career. That combination — and Pujols’ lack of speed — means more of his ground balls are turning into outs. And sometimes two outs; Pujols ranks second in the major leagues in grounding into double plays.

“There’s no doubt shifting has become more prevalent. I think Albert is as highly shifted [against] as any right-handed hitter in the game,” Angels Manager Mike Scioscia said.

“He’s obviously hit some ground balls into shifts. I do think it’s affected some of his batting average. Albert’s real importance to us is going to be his production numbers. I think right now you can see that he is driving in runs.”

Pujols is batting .423 over a six-game hitting streak, a season high. He has driven in 50 runs, second to Mike Trout on the team and among the top 20 in the American League. He has the most at-bats of any Angels player with runners in scoring position, although his .268 average in that situation ranks fifth among the six Angels with at least 50 at-bats.

He has been the designated hitter for 10 consecutive games, as the Angels focus on keeping his bat in the lineup.

“He’s doing what we need him to do, and hopefully that will pick up,” Scioscia said. “He’s definitely starting to swing the bat better and feels more confident. We’ll see how the second half goes.”

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Scioscia said he was not alarmed by the rise in the number of ground balls Pujols is hitting, even over the course of half a season.

“I think it’s a small sample, to be honest with you,” Scioscia said. “Over the course of a year, it could become a timing issue. It could become a matchup issue. I know it’s half a season, but I don’t think it’s excessive to the point where you say, ‘Oh my gosh, this guy needs to redefine himself.’

“Sometimes hitters aren’t squaring balls up as consistently as they can. I think there are other markers to look at, such as exit velocity, that reflect on your bat speed. All those markers are good. He’s not chasing numbers. He’s trying to help us win every at-bat and let the numbers fall where they will.”

Pujols is 36. He might not bat .300 any longer, but what should his batting average look like?

“Last year, he hit 40 home runs,” Scioscia said. “He’s going to do what he’s going to do. There’s no need for him to morph his game or change his game. I think he makes adjustments as well as any player that’s ever put on a uniform. He understands what pitchers are doing. He understands what he wants to do. He’s tremendous at making adjustments.

“Whatever hitter he is going to be at this stage of his career, so be it. He is still extremely productive. He gets Mike [Trout] pitches to hit, just hitting behind him. He is still a force in the middle of our lineup.”

FROM THE OC REGISTER

Fan Friday: Rob Rohm’s man cave is jam-packed with Angels memories

By STAFF

ORANGE - Angels Super Fan Rob Rohm is quite a dedicated Halos aficionado.

Signed balls, helmets, bats, banners and tickets, among many other Angels items, adorn every inch of his man cave.

These are not just random items. Name almost any recent significant Angels memory and Rohm has a piece of it.

Garret Anderson's 10-RBI game? Yup. Second base from Game 6 of the 2002 ALCS? Yup. Game-used bats from every starter from that World Championship team? Nolan Ryan signed everything? Yup.

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THE State Farm sponsored backstop from the 2010 All-Star home run derby at the Big A? Of course. Used as the bar, it even has a photo of Home-run Derby winner David Ortiz on top it and one of his home run balls.

Rohm even batted against Nolan Ryan after winning a contest in 2003 put on by Baby Ruth candy bar ... and to top it off, he hit the first pitch.

@OCRAngels is proud to name Rob Rohm an Angels Super Fan.

Angels’ Andrew Heaney to undergo Tommy John surgery after lack of progress from stem-cell treatment

By JEFF FLETCHER / STAFF WRITER

BOSTON – The Andrew Heaney stem cell experiment failed.

The Angels announced on Thursday that Heaney will undergo Tommy John surgery because they had not seen sufficient results from the stem cell treatment after nearly two months, although they are still hopeful it will work for Garrett Richards.

“From the second week, during this entire process you always kind of knew of all the outcomes, this was one of them,” General Manager Billy Eppler said Thursday. “We were hopeful it didn’t get to this outcome, but it did.”

Heaney’s surgery will be performed Friday in Los Angeles by noted orthopedist Dr. Neal ElAttrache.

The rehab period for Tommy John surgery is 12 to 18 months, although it's rare for a pitcher to be back in less than 14 or 15. Eppler said they aren't ready to rule out a return late in 2017.

“We’re going to go month by month and see where he’s at,” Eppler said.

The Heaney news is not surprising, because stem cell treatment has not been proved to be effective in cases like this. In the procedure, stem cells are taken from the bone marrow and injected into the injured area to promote healing.

The Angels and Heaney decided to give it a try because they felt there was little to lose by waiting a couple months. Heaney, in a statement he released on Twitter, said the initial decision to have the stem cell treatment was “excruciating.”

“I have worked extremely hard to get where I am today, and don’t plan on doing anything different on my journey to returning to the Angels ball club,” Heaney wrote. “I appreciate all of

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the people who have shown me continued support throughout my highs and lows. This may be the lowest, but I’ll be back better than ever.”

Heaney pitched one game this season. Afterward, he said he felt some forearm tightness. Although the initial MRI exams showed no significant damage to his ulnar collateral ligament, subsequent MRI’s showed some.

After three weeks of rehab, the Angels had Heaney receive a stem-cell injection. Subsequent MRI exams revealed he had some damage to ulnar collateral ligament. The Angels tried to avoid surgery with the stem cell procedure, but it didn't work.

“All the conservative care wasn’t making the progress that needed to be made,” Eppler said. “If there was movement, the movement was so minimal when he tested it rather than just imaged it. It felt the same.”

Heaney, 25, had emerged as one of the Angels’ best young pitchers when he posted a 3.49 ERA last season, his first after the Angels acquired him in a trade for Howie Kendrick.

He began this season as the No. 2 starter, but lasted only six innings.

It is still possible that Richards will be able to avoid surgery, although that would also be something of a surprise.

Richards pitched for a month before feeling discomfort in his arm. Exams of Richards this week showed some healing, and Richards has said he felt pain-free throughout the month he pitched. The Angels will continue to wait on a decision with Richards.

“He’s shown more progress toward healing and things look more improved in his situation,” Eppler said. “We still have another four to six weeks of allowing that injection of the stem cell to run its course.”

At this point, it seems highly unlikely that Richards could pitch in 2016.

Eppler said the loss of Heaney, and potentially the loss of Richards, into 2017 won't affect his decisions before the trading deadline.

Two of the Angels more attractive assets – Yunel Escobar and Huston Street – remain under control for next year. Escobar has a team option. If the Angels feel strongly that they can contend in 2017, they could be more inclined to hold on to players like Escobar and Street, who would have roles next year.

“Does it help to have (the Heaney and Richards) situations declared? Certainly it does,” Epp ler said. “But it isn’t necessary.”

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In a season filled with struggle for the Angels, Mike Trout is actually getting

better

By JEFF FLETCHER / STAFF WRITER

BOSTON – Like a broken clock that is right two times a day, the Angels are a broken baseball team that is right four times a day.

Those moments when Mike Trout steps to the plate are when Angels fans can – for a moment – forget all that has gone wrong in this lost season.

While the Angels are having one of their worst seasons in franchise history, they still can boast having the best player in the sport. Trout is less than a week away from being named an All-Star for the fifth time, a starter for the fourth time.

And he’s getting better.

“He keeps growing,” Angels hitting coach Dave Hansen said. “It’s pretty impressive.”

Trout, 24, is halfway through cranking out another brilliant season. This season is not significantly different from any of the previous four, which resulted in an MVP and three runner-up finishes.

A closer look, however, reveals that Trout is still changing and improving in some subtle ways.

It’s no surprise, of course. Almost all players are better at 24 than they were at 21 or 22, better in their fifth season than their first.

To find Trout’s improvement requires a little digging, though.

For starters, appropriately, take a look at the first pitch.

Trout has swung at a career-high 15.4 percent of first pitches this season. Previously, Trout had swung at only 10.3 percent, one of the lowest percentages in the majors.

It became a source of frustration for fans to watch pitchers just pump hittable fastballs over the middle of the plate, knowing Trout was almost certainly going to take the pitch.

Trout said he often came to the plate with “everything spinning in my mind,” so he would take a pitch to settle down. But he knew he had crossed the line from disciplined to passive.

“If you take the first pitch and he throws a nasty second pitch and you foul it off, you’re 0-2,” Trout said. “You put yourself in a hole.”

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Last spring Trout said he would be more aggressive on the first pitch, but that lasted only about a month. By year’s end he was taking just as much, which hitting coach Hansen has discouraged.

“He needs to fire off some swings early in the count,” Hansen said. “Not only for his sake, but for the pitchers. They can’t just flip that easy strike one in there. He’s picking his spots to do that.”

He’s clearly picking the right ones. Trout is hitting .647 when he puts the first pitch in play, which he’s done 17 times. The major league average on the first pitch is .350.

The early aggression even seems to help him later in the at-bat. Trout is hitting .500 with four homers in the 53 plate appearances in which he swung at the first pitch.

Occasional first-pitch swinging “locks him in,” Hansen said. “It’s pretty important he keeps doing that.”

Avoiding so many early holes has also helped Trout reduce his strikeout rate to a career-best 18 percent. In 2014 he struck out 26.1 percent of the time, and last year it was 23.2 percent.

As you’d expect with those numbers, he is making contact on 81.8 percent of his swings, also a career-high.

More balls in play obviously also means a higher batting average. Trout is hitting .323, up from .293 over the previous two seasons.

Trout has also walked 14.5 percent of the time, up from 12.6 percent prior to this season.

“He’s controlling the zone a lot better,” Hansen said.

Hansen and Trout both said that one of his biggest improvements is in his consistency, which comes from a better understanding of his swing.

The slumps have been practically nonexistent, as opposed to previous seasons when Trout could be cold for three or four weeks. This year Trout hasn’t gone three straight games without a hit.

“The biggest thing is my timing,” Trout said. “My timing has been good this year. Last year my timing was off for a few months. Every day my swing felt different. It was a weird season.”

Hansen said he and Trout now have a few buzz phrases – usually relating to getting his foot down at the right time or keeping himself upright enough in his stance – that get him locked in again quickly if he strays.

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Once on base, Trout is also making good on another promise: to steal more bases.

After his stolen bases declined for three years in a row, Trout has 11 steals this season, equaling last year’s total. He is on pace for 22, which would be his highest total since 2013. He’s been caught just once.

“I’ve been more aggressive and I’m going to keep it that way,” Trout said.

Defensively, Trout’s arm is probably the most improved tool in his entire skill set. Trout had no outfield assists in 2013, then four in 2014 and seven 2015. This season he already has five, on pace for double digits.

Manager Mike Scioscia doesn’t expect dramatic improvement from a player who has already performed at a Hall of Fame level every season, but he notices the tweaks as Trout evolves.

In a season in which Scioscia has had so little go right for his team, Trout is the bright spot that’s getting brighter.

“He’s adjusting,” Scioscia said. “Some things you are going to have a better understanding of as you move forward. He’s a student of the game, no doubt.”

On deck: Angels at Red Sox, Friday, 4 p.m.

By JEFF FLETCHER / STAFF WRITER

Where: Fenway Park TV: Fox Sports West, 4 p.m. Did you know? The Angels are 19-7 vs. the Red Sox since 2012. THE PITCHERS ANGELS RHP JHOULYS CHACIN (3-6, 5.64) Vs. Red Sox: 2-1, 5.17 At Fenway Park: 1-0, 3.60 Hates to face: None Loves to face: Dustin Pedroia, 1 for 7 (.143) RED SOX RHP STEPHEN WRIGHT (8-5, 2.18) Vs. Angels: 1-1, 6.35 At Fenway Park: 8-3, 2.93 Hates to face: None Loves to face: None

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UPCOMING MATCHUPS Saturday: Angels LHP Hector Santiago (4-4, 5.27) vs. Red Sox RHP Clay Buchholz (3-8, 5.90), 4 p.m., Fox Sports West Sunday: Angels RHP Matt Shoemaker (3-8, 4.12) vs. Red Sox TBA, 10: 15 a.m., Fox Sports West

FROM ANGELS.COM Heaney to undergo Tommy John surgery

By Alden Gonzalez

BOSTON -- Andrew Heaney, one of the Angels' most promising young starting pitchers, has relented to season-ending Tommy John surgery, a procedure that will probably keep him out until the start of 2018, the team announced Thursday.

Heaney was hoping to avoid the invasive surgery with stem-cell therapy, which could've had him pitching as early as this September, but his ulnar collateral ligament did not show sufficient progress at the eight-week mark.

Reached by phone, Heaney seemed both disappointed and at peace.

"Once I decided to do stem cell, I knew what I was trying to avoid and what I was trying to repair," he said. "I think I gave it a shot. I gave it every attempt to heal using alternative, conservative methods."

The surgery will be performed by Dr. Neal ElAttrache in Los Angeles on Friday morning. Heaney initially chose stem-cell therapy because he saw Tommy John surgery as a last resort and because he didn't believe he had much to lose since, in his mind, there was a strong chance he would've missed all of next season even if the procedure was done immediately.

Now that surgery is a reality, Angels general manager Billy Eppler said it's "too early" to say whether a return next season is out of the question.

"I don't want to put any timeline on it," Heaney said. "I am not going to limit myself."

Garrett Richards, the Angels' Opening Day starter, is also undergoing stem-cell therapy, but his prognosis seemingly looks better. A Monday ultrasound revealed that Richards is clinically asymptomatic and that his UCL is healing progressively, prompting another evaluation on Aug. 8.

Heaney, 25 days removed from his 25th birthday, was acquired from the Dodgers, shortly after they acquired Heaney from the Marlins, in the December 2014 trade that sent longtime second

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baseman Howie Kendrick to the Angels' crosstown rivals. Heaney came up from Triple-A the following June and pitched well, finishing with a 3.49 ERA in 105 2/3 innings.

He began 2016 as the Angels' No. 2 starter, and then his arm began to bark.

Heaney felt discomfort in his forearm while completing six innings in his season debut and was promptly placed on the 15-day disabled list with what the team initially called a left flexor muscle strain. He tried to restart his throwing program, but the discomfort ensued. Follow-up MRIs then diagnosed Heaney with a slight UCL tear, with several doctors disagreeing on its severity.

He was told about stem-cell therapy, whereby stem cells are extracted from bone marrow and injected into the affected area to act as a healing agent.

In a message posted on his Twitter account on Thursday night, Heaney called weighing conservative care with surgery "an excruciating decision for me, because I love my teammates, playing the game and competing against the best in the world."

On May 2, Dr. Steven H. Yoon, who operates out of the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic in Los Angeles, injected stem cells into Heaney's UCL.

On June 13, the six-week mark, Heaney returned for an ultrasound that showed some healing in the ligament, then returned again a couple weeks later.

Heaney was told that patients who have success with the procedure are typically asymptomatic by the eighth week, but that wasn't the case when he showed up to Yoon's office this past Monday. He was told his UCL was not healing at an optimal rate. He tried some strength tests and discovered the same discomfort he was feeling in April. Progress was minimal.

Heaney was due for another follow-up visit shortly after the All-Star break, but ultimately opted against it.

"We felt like we had exhausted all options in terms of giving it more time or re-testing it," Heaney said. "Personally, I guess I thought that I might want to give it time, until the end of the All-Star break. And then the more I started thinking about it, the more I just felt like in my heart that it wasn't progressing at the rate that I had hoped."

Heaney wanted to avoid surgery at all costs, and the Angels supported him -- not just because Richards also has a damaged UCL, or because Tyler Skaggs is 22 months into his own recovery from Tommy John surgery, or because C.J. Wilson has yet to throw a competitive pitch all season.

But because, as Eppler said, "No surgeries are guaranteed."

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"Whatever the number is -- 85 percent success rate, 83 percent success rate -- you're still not dealing with certainties," he said. "Opting for conservative care, at that time in the season, did not have a downside associated with it. So I think it was the mindful decision and one that we, together with Andrew, gave our best effort on. It didn't work out that way, but I think we're better for having tried that route."

Eppler spoke to Heaney basically every day over these past couple months. He called him "very levelheaded" and "beyond his years," saying, "I do not feel like I'm talking to a 25-year-old when we speak."

Heaney weighed the conservative-care route pragmatically, and he promises to take the same approach with the arduous rehabilitation that awaits him.

"I don't want to assume anything," Heaney said. "I just want to take it one step at a time. Those little milestones are going to be little celebrations for me. That's how I'm going to stay positive through it."

Ex-teammates back to making sweet music Punk aficionados Radinsky, Hansen reunited in Angels clubhouse

By Alden Gonzalez

ANAHEIM -- It began in the trainer's room in Vero Beach, Fla. It was the spring of 1996, and Dave Hansen and Scott Radinsky were Dodgers. Hansen was carving out a career as a successful pinch-hitter, Radinsky was re-establishing himself as a late-inning reliever -- and all they did that day was talk about hardcore punk music, which had swept the West Coast in the 1980s and captivated them both.

Off-field hobbies of Major League Baseball players usually are confined to hunting, golfing and shopping. Not so with Hansen and Radinsky.

Radinsky, in his first season as the Angels' bullpen coach, is lead singer of a well-known California punk band called Pulley, which still tours and records. Hansen, the Angels' hitting coach, is a rock-and-roll junkie who began playing guitar as an 11-year-old and hasn't stopped.

"We had a natural connection through music," Hansen said. "And I think our friendship just kind of grew from there."

Both Hansen and Radinsky were born in 1968 and drafted out of Los Angeles high schools 18 years later. Radinsky attended Simi Valley, north of Malibu, and Hansen went to Rowland Heights, near Long Beach. Radinsky was already making headway in the punk scene by that point, and Hansen was a fan.

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When they met, Radinsky introduced Hansen to his world.

One night, Hansen tagged along to watch Henry Rollins in Philadelphia and Radinsky slapped Pulley stickers on every light post he saw on his way to the venue. Watching local punk bands during road trips became their thing. They saw Strung Out, Social Distortion, The Vandals, No Use For A Name, Pennywise. And on other nights -- 20, if he had to guess -- Hansen stood in the crowd to watch Radinsky sing for his own band.

"I thought that to be so impressive, not only to do one of the things we love to do but to do both of the things we love to do," Hansen said.

A hardcore punk movement began to take over Southern California in the early '80s. And the band Radinsky helped form in 1983 -- first called Scared Straight, then Ten Foot Pole -- was right in the middle of it.

Radinsky played baseball simultaneously and sees them as "two separate worlds."

"Since the first day I can ever remember being in eighth grade and jamming with some guys, it's always been about getting to go out and having fun," Radinsky, now 48, said. "And I think some of the survival, the reason we've been able to last, is the fact that we've never had to pay bills through the music."

Professional obligations forced Radinsky to leave Ten Foot Pole in the mid-'90s and form Pulley, which has produced five studio albums and toured three continents over the last 22 years.

Radinsky did a lot else during that time.

He was a nightmare for left-handed hitters, holding Ken Griffey Jr., George Brett, Wade Boggs, Fred McGriff and Tony Gwynn to a combined seven hits in 59 at-bats over an 11-year career.

He survived Hodgkin's lymphoma, which struck right in the middle of his playing career in 1993. He went on a 44-day bike ride from Seattle to Los Angeles. He sprouted an indoor skate park in his hometown, Skatelab, which also houses the Skateboarding Hall of Fame. And he eventually carved out a coaching career with the Indians, Dodgers and, now, the Angels.

On April 13, shortly after finishing up a three-game series in Oakland, Radinsky was taken to a local hospital and was told he needed double-bypass surgery because the chemotherapy from the cancer that struck him 23 years earlier had shut down a couple of his arteries.

Radinsky has spent most of the last 11 weeks recovering, and Hansen made it a point to stay in touch.

"I wanted to make sure that he knew I was -- and we were -- thinking about him," Hansen said, "and not that we were just going to move on."

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Hansen, who holds the Dodgers' record for most pinch-hits, still packs a guitar on every road trip. Usually it's the acoustic his father gifted him in 1993, but sometimes he'll go electric. He needs 45 minutes after each workday to decompress.

"Music is kind of what we do out here on the field," said Hansen, promoted from assistant hitting coach last offseason. "We have to be on time. We have to be rhythmatic in order to deliver our mechanic. I admire that part of it, too, just to be able to stay in a rhythm, constant rhythm all the time."

Hansen, 47, still remembers how excited he was on that day in November, when Radinsky sent him a text to let him know he was joining the Angels' coaching staff and that, after two decades, the two would be together again.

They played together only one season. But of all the guys Radinsky has come across in baseball, Hansen, he said, "is probably the one guy that I've stayed in touch with and continued to keep a friendship with. The connection was music."

Hansen and Radinsky frequently shared dinners throughout Spring Training, and sometimes those meals led right back to Hansen's apartment, for the same jam sessions they held 20 years earlier.

Radinsky is almost fully recovered now. He's joined the Angels for pregame work in Anaheim several times, and soon -- perhaps immediately after the All-Star break -- he'll start traveling, resuming his coaching duties full-time.

"I can't wait, really," Hansen said. "I don't know -- when I see him, it just changes my attitude, too. I enjoy being around him."

FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Angels’ Heaney to undergo Tommy John surgery

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Los Angeles Angels left-hander Andrew Heaney will have Tommy John surgery, which will likely sideline him until the 2018 season.

The Angels announced the decision Thursday in another blow to their injury-plagued lineup.

Heaney entered the season the No. 2 starter after his promising debut with the Angels, who acquired him in a trade in December 2014. He went 6-4 with a 3.49 ERA in 18 starts last season and was named the AL's rookie of the month in July.

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Heaney made just one start in April before tearing his ulnar collateral ligament. He hoped to avoid surgery with rest and stem cell therapy, but his elbow wasn't progressing.

Dr. Neal ElAttrache will perform elbow ligament replacement surgery on Heaney on Friday in Los Angeles.

FROM FOX SPORTS

Angels-Red Sox Preview

STATS LLC

BOSTON -- Two teams extremely happy to see the calendar flip to July get together for three games at Fenway Park beginning Friday.

One of the teams -- the host Boston Red Sox -- still has a chance to fix things and stay in the pennant race.

The Los Angeles Angels, 8-19 in June, have lost nine of their last 10 and sit in last place in the American League West with a 32-47 record. That sounds, even this early, like a lost season.

Meanwhile, the Boston Red Sox -- 10-16 in June -- are still in position to contend and open a nine-game homestand that leads up to the All-Star break.

Both teams have held team meetings in recent days, the Angels after being swept by the Houston Astros for the second straight week and the Red Sox after the Tampa Bay Rays ended an 11-game losing streak with a win over Boston on Monday.

The Red Sox won Tuesday before losing Wednesday to end a 2-4 trip.

"I like this team, I like our guys, I like the way we come in here every day and the effort that we continue to put forth," Red Sox manager John Farrell said after his team was shut out for the third time this season Wednesday. "We've got some adjustments and some work to do in certain areas. But this is a group that doesn't roll over and I'm firmly confident in them."

The meeting came after Eduardo Rodriguez was shelled in the series opener as second baseman Dustin Pedroia shouting at the pitcher on the mound. Rodriguez was sent to the minor leagues after the game, and the Red Sox still haven't named a Sunday starter against the Angels.

Rick Porcello and the offense stopped the bleeding and ended a three-game losing streak -- the Red Sox still haven't lost four in a row this season, but Matt Moore and two relievers stifled the Boston attack and David Price had another disappointing outing Wednesday.

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Hanley Ramirez left that game with a right side injury after taking a hard swing but after the game said he'd be fine.

"Just my side got really tight," Ramirez said. "I talked to John and we're just trying to prevent something big. He told me that, 'We're not going to put your season on the line. Take care of that and be ready to go Friday.'"

The Red Sox, who have already used six different players in left field, hope to get Brock Holt (concussion) back soon.

They won't be getting any sympathy from the Angels, who have already used 43 players this season.

The Angels gave up 37 runs in six losses to the Astros.

"I don't think these guys are taking losing in stride, and that's a positive, but it has to be tempered with filtering out some of the frustration that could easily creep into a clubhouse or a dugout," manager Mike Scioscia said Wednesday. "Those guys seem like they're playing free and giving it everything they have, but the results aren't there."

Boston's Steven Wright, coming off his first poor performance of the season, opens the series against right-hander Jhoulys Chacin, who beat the Red Sox while with the Atlanta Braves earlier this season but is only 3-6 overall. He was 1-3 with an 8.59 ERA in five June starts with 17 walks and seven strikeouts.

Wright lasted 4 2/3 innings, yielding seven hits and eight runs (three unearned) in a loss at Texas last time out. He also surrendered only his second June home run in that game.

Angels on pace for worst record in franchise history

AP

ANAHEIM, Calif. — After the Los Angeles Angels stumbled to their ninth loss in 10 games Wednesday, manager Mike Scioscia held a closed-door meeting before they packed up and flew to Boston.

Although everybody described the meeting as relatively upbeat, the Angels didn't emerge with any big ideas on how to slow a season going south. With too many injured players and not enough big hitters, the Angels (32-47) are on pace for the worst record in franchise history.

''We know we've seen some guys performing at their absolute worst for the first half, and we know they're better than that,'' Scioscia said. ''That's going to be our goal, to get those guys

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going in the right direction ... I don't think these guys are taking losing in stride. I think that's a positive.''

If so, it's one of the few positives in Anaheim these days.

Houston completed a three-game sweep of the Angels on Wednesday, outscoring its AL West rivals by a combined 21-7. The Angels been swept in seven series already this season, and their 8-19 record in June was their worst in the month since 1980.

Those 1980 Angels lost 95 games. The current Angels are on pace for 96 defeats, less than two years after they won 98 games for the majors' best record.

Mike Trout is still performing brilliantly, going 18 for 30 with three homers during their six-game homestand. Just about everybody else in an Angels uniform is struggling to some degree — when they're healthy enough to put on the uniform, that is.

''Our team has to be more than Mike,'' Scioscia said. ''We've been struggling to get our lineup a little deeper. ... We're looking forward to getting some guys back, but the guys that are in that room should be playing better than we are, and that's what we're going to focus on. We're all looking in the mirror and trying to get us going in the right direction. We all need to get better.''

Injuries are the most obvious cause for the Angels' woes, particularly on the mound. Few teams could thrive after the loss of three top-of-the-rotation starters — in the Angels' case, Garrett Richards, C.J. Wilson and Andrew Heaney, who will undergo Tommy John surgery and likely be sidelined until 2018. Several key regulars also have missed extended time, from shortstop Andrelton Simmons and third baseman Yunel Escobar to top reliever Joe Smith.

The Angels have used 43 players in their first 79 games.

''The injuries are something I've never been a part of,'' said Jered Weaver, who dropped to 6-7 with a 5.51 ERA after losing to Houston. ''There's been a lot of people going down, a lot of people getting called up and back and forth. But it's no excuse. It's nothing that any other team hasn't gone through. No one is going to feel sorry for us.''

Yet the Angels' slide also is rooted in decisions made years ago.

Their depleted farm system has produced very few candidates to replace those injured players, and owner Arte Moreno already devoted a huge chunk of the Angels' payroll to Albert Pujols and Josh Hamilton this season and into the future. Combined with Moreno's unwillingness to spend past the luxury tax threshold, even this big-budget club can't buy its way out of trouble now.

The Angels have some salary relief in sight: Weaver and Wilson, who are making $20 million apiece, will be off the books this winter. But Hamilton is owed another $17 million in 2017

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while he plays for Texas, and Pujols will make $140 million over the next five years while he jogs well past his 40th birthday.

At least Pujols plays every day and keeps things interesting by climbing the career homers list, passing Harmon Killebrew for 11th place last week with his 574th. The three-time NL MVP is second on the team with 50 RBIs, but is batting .247 with a meager .417 slugging percentage.

General manager Billy Eppler hasn't had much early luck in his first year on the job. Eppler said this week that Scioscia's job isn't in jeopardy during his 17th season, acknowledging that the Angels' injuries and depth problems can hardly be solved by the longest-tenured manager in baseball.

Eppler said the Angels have too many financial resources to be forced to enter a rebuilding phase. He won't trade Trout, but it's possible the Yankees' former professional scouting director could restock his largely barren cupboard by trading the Angels' few valuable assets once this hard-luck season officially becomes lost.

''There is no doubt we want to be a contending team, year in and year out,'' Eppler said. ''Every move that we are going to make, whether it's in July or the offseason, is for the betterment of the team.''