Los Angeles Angels rally behind Marte to break 6-game skid

The Los Angeles Angels have been inventing new ways to lose this season and have struggled to find any consistency. The Angels went into Sunday’s game against Oakland they had lost six in a row and had fallen into last place.

The Los Angeles Angels found themselves staring at a 6-2 deficit going into the bottom of the seventh inning and they were very much in danger of losing their seventh game in a row. The Angels needed a spark and who else would they turn to but All-Star centerfielder Mike Trout. As he has done so many times before Trout delivered hitting a two-run homer to center to cut the lead in half at 6-4.

For a change the Angels comeback did not fizzle, instead they kept coming. Johnny Giavotella led off the 8th with a double and Jefry Marte followed with an RBI-single to center to cut the lead to 6-5. After Daniel Nava walked, Andrelton Simmons, who has been hot as of late raising his average almost 30 points (.204 to .232), came through with an RBI-Single scoring Marte to tie the game at six.

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Marte was not done though. In the bottom of the ninth the Angels loaded the bases with one out for Marte and the rookie hit a deep fly ball to right and Trout scored on the sac fly to give the Angels an improbable 7-6 walk-off victory.

It is only one victory and the Angels need a lot of them in a hurry if they hope to get back in the race for a playoff spot, but it was a good start. The Angels hope to continue the momentum as they face the Houston Astros in a three-game series starting today with Matt Shoemaker will take on the Astros Colin McHugh.

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In other news the Angels pitching staff will get a lift soon as Joe Smith performed flawlessly in a rehab assignment for Single-A Inland Empire Sunday night as he needed only nine pitches to retire the side in order for the 66’ers.

“I thought he looked good, he definitely commands the ball pretty well,” Angels top prospect catcher Taylor Ward said in an interview after catching Smith Sunday night. “He threw every pitch he had his four-seam fastball, two-seam fastball, his change-up and his curve ball. We got a strike out on his curve ball and a good swing and a miss on his change-up. We talked in the dugout and he said his curve ball could be better even though he got a strikeout with it. But I thought he looked good as I caught him in the Spring and it was nice and easy to back with him and catch him again.”