The Angels welcomed their smallest crowd of 2016 into their ballpark Monday night.
Reasons abounded. The team is 16 games under .500 and amid a 10-game homestand. School is back in session across Orange County. The Los Angeles Rams competed with fans’ attention for the first time since Oct. 4, 1964.
And so, at first pitch, the outer sections down either line were entirely vacant, like a motel along a Minnesota highway in the dead of winter. Come the ninth inning, no more than a few thousand fans observed the conclusion of the Angels’ 8-1 defeat to Seattle.