ANAHEIM — The Angels’ hitters didn’t show up for this homestand.
The Angels lost 4-3 to the Chicago Cubs on Sunday afternoon, losing for the fifth time in the last six games at Angel Stadium.
The Angels, who couldn’t convert after getting the tying to second with one out in the ninth, scored 13 runs in six games. The Angels (61-69) fell to eight games under .500, equaling their season-low.
Taylor Ward, who hit his 30th homer, was the only Angels’ player to get an RBI on Sunday. He drove in two, and the other run scored on an error.
Mike Trout has been particularly cold. Trout, who struck out three times in each of the last two games, went 0 for 10 against the Cubs. His streak of reaching base safely in 22 straight games ended on Saturday.
Trout, who is sitting on 398 career homers, has not hit a homer since Aug. 6. The 15-game drought is tied for the fifth longest in his career. The longest was a 27-game drought in 2015.
Angels starter Kyle Hendricks, who pitched all 276 games of his career with the Cubs before this season, couldn’t hold his former team down quite well enough to pick up his slumping teammates.
Hendricks, 35, signed a one-year, $2.5-million deal with the Angels in an effort to prolong his career.
Although his 5.04 ERA is mediocre, he’s mostly kept the Angels in games. Hendricks has allowed four runs or fewer in 22 of his 25 starts. The Angels are 11-14 when he starts.
This time he took the mound in the fifth with the Angels down 2-1. He then gave up two singles and a walk to load the bases, ending his day.
Left-hander Andrew Chafin allowed one of Hendricks’ runners to score on a fly ball and another on a single, running the deficit to 4-1.
The Angels got back into the game in the bottom of the sixth, with a Trout strikeout interrupting what may have been a bigger inning.
Zach Neto led off with a single and then he stole second, before Trout struck out. Ward drove in Neto with a double. Ward later scored on a two-out error by Cubs shortstop Dansby Swanson.
That cut the deficit to 4-3. In the ninth, Luis Rengifo singled and, one out later, Yoan Moncada walked, but then Christian Moore and Bryce Teodosio both struck out.
More to come on this story.