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Torii Hunter has helped the Angels boost their run scoring just in time for their pitching to come back to earth. (AP) There’s a chance that the Yankees are going to run into a buzzsaw this weekend. The Yankees are playing in their third city in three days tonight, and their internal clocks are ...

Garrett Richards will look to usURP the Yankees tonight. (AP) The Angels announced that they were bouncing Joel Piñiero to the bullpen and calling up Double-A right-hander Garrett Richards to make Wednesday’s start just as my Yankees-Angels Series Preview went live yesterday, so I wasn’t ...

Jeff Mathis's hitting is single-handedly keeping the Angels out of the playoffs. (AP) Yes they’re seven games back, but the Angels are the Yankees’ closest rival for the Wild Card spot in the American League this year. They’re also an extremely lop-sided team that has allowed fewer ...

I thought this was a belated April Fool’s story when I saw it: In the manager’s office after Thursday’s game, Angels manager Mike Scioscia and GM Tony Reagins discussed their options for nearly 30 minutes after center fielder Peter Bourjos injured his hamstring in the eighth inning. The ...

When Dan Haren was scratched from his start on Saturday due to a balky back, the Angels’ rotation moved up a day, putting scheduled Sunday starter Ervin Santana on the bump for Saturday’s game, and moving Joel Piñeiro into Santana’s spot for Sunday’s contest. The right-handed Piñeiro ...

Jered Weaver's starts have been among the few high points in the Angels' season thus far. (AP) These are lean times for Angel fans. Though the American League West has been fairly (and at times extremely) close thus far this season, the Angels, who won the division five of six years from 2004 ...

Nick Adenhart: Seeking justice. (AP) The trial of the swell guy who killed Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart and two others in April, 2009, has begun. Gallo has pleaded not guilty to three counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of the 22-year-old Adenhart, 20-year-old Courtney Stewart and 25-year-old ...

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: it is all too easy to take shots at Brian Cashman and Damon: don't think twice--it's alright (AP) the Yankees for making the choice they did in opting to let Johnny Damon and Hideki Matsui leave after last season. Yes, the team gambled on ...

LET’S NOT MAKE A DEAL Having been forced to the sidelines when the best pitcher on the trade market went to Texas, the Yankees were again outbid, at least in someone’s perception, for the second-best. In a trade that has been almost universally panned by the cognoscenti (baseballscenti?), the ...

ALMOST DID IT AGAIN The Mariners let the Yankees make it interesting, but a 7-2 deficit in the ninth is too big a mountain to climb, even against a bad Mariners club and a tiring Cliff Lee. At the risk of seeming hypercritical (although that’s an official part of my job description, and yours as fans) ...

You can’t say the first two months of the season haven’t brought us fascinating division races. In the AL Central, the Twins have played outstanding baseball at their new home and are on a 98-win pace, threatening to blow out the Tigers, who are just plodding along in their Tigerish fashion. Despite ...