Angels manager Ron Washington calls 90-minute meeting to encourage struggling team

DETROIT — Nearly five months after Angels manager Ron Washington responded to two embarrassing games to start the season by calling a meeting, he did it again.

Washington called the entire team together for more than 90 minutes before Tuesday’s game in Detroit, the first time since doing so during the opening weekend in Baltimore.

The Angels had lost five games in a row and 13 of their previous 16, with their bats going silent for much of that stretch. They were just swept in a four-game series in Toronto.