The Angels have used “Calling All Angels” as the sound track to their pregame video montage since 2004, but it might be time to sub out the Train song for a Green Day hit that more appropriately captures the mood for this season: “Wake Me Up When September Ends.”
It’s only mid-August, and there are 44 games left, but the Angels, five-time division winners and a World Series champion in the first decade of this century, are buried in the American League West.
They lost to Seattle, 3-2, on Monday night to fall 20 games behind the division-leading Texas Rangers and extend their losing streak to a franchise record-tying 11 games, done three times previously, in 1974, 1992 and 1999.