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OC Register: Angels hitters go quietly in loss to Rangers to start season-ending trip

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ARLINGTON, Texas — The good news for the Angels is that they only have five games left.

They began the final trip of this disappointing season with a meager offensive output in a 5-2 loss to the Texas Rangers on Tuesday night.

Even facing a Rangers team that has struggled as much as them on the mound, the Angels managed only four hits. Both of their runs came on a Max Stassi homer in the second inning.

After that, the Angels sent just two hitters over the minimum to the plate over the final seven innings. They had just one at-bat with a runner in scoring position all night, and that was with two outs.

This storyline is nothing new for the Angels, who have been using a patchwork lineup for months because of injuries to Mike Trout, Anthony Rendon and Justin Upton.

The bright spot for the Angels was the bullpen, which gave up one run in six innings.

Reliever Andrew Wantz, who has been mostly solid in his first trip around the majors, now has two consecutive scoreless, multi-inning appearances after he allowed four runs in a nightmare inning on Sept. 20.

Since then he pitched two scoreless innings against the Astros on Sept. 22, and on Tuesday night he retired seven of the eight hitters he faced over 2-1/3 innings. He struck out four.

It was too late by the time the bullpen got into the game, though, because starter Packy Naughton gave up four runs in the second inning.

The Angels had just given Naughton a two-run lead on Stassi’s homer, but Naughton gave it back quickly.

He retired only one of the first six hitters in the inning, including a pair of walks. That produced three runs, and the Rangers scored the fourth on a groundout.

More to come on this story.

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