Albert Pujols has been playing major league baseball long enough -- 16 years, to be exact -- to know that some things are almost impossible to explain.
Like how the Angels could score 36 runs in five games, including Monday night’s 7-6 victory over the Dodgers, after scoring only 24 runs in their previous eight games, six of them losses to Tampa Bay and St. Louis at home last week.
“Sometimes teams go through tough stretches -- that’s how it goes,” Pujols said after he and Mike Trout combined to go five for eight with five runs batted in Monday night.