ATLANTA—The Los Angeles Angels have been struggling for most of the last two months, and Reid Detmers credits his teammates with staying the course and not getting too frustrated.
“We’ve had a couple of rough patches obviously, but everyone in here treats it like another day,” Detmers said. “There’s nothing crazy about it. We don’t think about it. We go out and play. We don’t think about that stuff.”
Taylor Ward homered in a five-run first, Detmers pitched five scoreless innings and the Angels cooled off the Atlanta Braves with a 9–1 victory Sunday.
Max Stassi went 3 for 4 and drove in three runs, and Ward had three hits for the Angels, who improved to 3–14 this month and snapped a five-game skid. They had dropped 14 of 16 and were a season-worst 16 games under .500….