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Mistakes prove costly in Angels' 8-1 loss to Oakland

The Orange County Register | June 15, 2015

Related Topics: Sonny Gray, Mike Scioscia, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim minor league players, Erick Aybar, Marcus Semien

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The Angels' Matt Shoemaker shows his frustration after he got pulled off from the mound during a game against the Athletics at Angel Stadium on Sunday.

ANAHEIM – On a day the Angels made three errors, it would be easy to blame the defense for the loss.

Except they probably would have lost anyway. It just wouldn’t have looked quite so ugly.

The errors were the pock marks on an overall sloppy performance in an 8-1 loss to the Oakland A’s on Sunday afternoon.

The errors led to just two unearned runs, which meant the Angels still would have come up well short of beating A’s ace Sonny Gray, who lowered his major-league best ERA to 1.

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