A few days ago everything was going wrong for the Angels. They were in the midst of a six-game losing, they had lost their pitching ace for the season due to injury, and their top off-season acquisition shortstop Andrelton Simmons was lost for two months.
What a difference a few days make. The Angels rolled into Seattle and swept the first place Mariners in a three-game series. The team acquired pitcher Jhoulys Chacin from the Braves and just signed free agent pitcher former Cy Young Winner Tim Lincecum to help provide some stability for a pitching staff that hadn’t seen a pitcher go six innings in a start in over two weeks.