Fresh off of a road trip that saw them take two of three games from a future playoff team in the White Sox, the Angels had a chance to open their last homestand of the year by playing spoiler against an Oakland Athletics team trying to hold onto playoff aspirations of their own. For a while, it looked like they were going to do exactly that, but a number of different costly mistakes led to them dropping a very winnable game by the final of 5-4.
The Halos turned to Jhonathan Diaz to start Friday’s game after Shohei Ohtani was scratched from his scheduled outing yesterday, and the rookie struggled with his command in his major league debut.