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Chris Rodriguez’s spring performances cried out for spot on Angels roster

Chris Rodriguez would love to regale you with the details of the life-changing Sunday conversation in which Angels manager Joe Maddon told him he made the opening day roster but, truth is, the 22-year-old right-hander can’t remember most of them.

“Once he said I made the team, I completely blacked out,” Rodriguez said before Tuesday night’s Freeway Series finale in Dodger Stadium. “It was one of those things where he said you made the team and kept on talking, and I could only hear a little bit. All I could think was, ‘Holy crap!