ANAHEIM – As the baseball rebounded off the center field wall and toward an unoccupied spot on the outfield grass, a season-best win streak and an impressive run of defense trickled away with it.
The Detroit Tigers’ Justyn-Henry Malloy delivered a two-run inside-the-park home run in a 7-6 victory that ended the Angels’ six-game winning streak and their bid for a perfect homestand. It would have been the Angels first sweep of a homestand lasting at least seven games since 2004.
Even...