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Angels’ scoreless streak ends at 31 innings with three homers

Mike DiGiovanna.
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Peter Bourjos led off the sixth inning of Monday night’s game against the Seattle Mariners with a solo home run to center field at Safeco, ending a string of 31 innings in which the Angels did not score a run. The franchise record for consecutive innings without a run is 33, set in 1963 and 2004.

Bourjos’ second big league homer gave the Angels a 1-0 lead, and Bobby Abreu’s two-out solo homer in the sixth made it 2-0 and Hideki Matsui followed with a two-run shot to make it 4-0. The Angels hadn’t scored since the first inning of Friday night’s game against Baltimore. They were shut out by the Orioles in losses Saturday and Sunday.

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Mike DiGiovanna

Mike DiGiovanna has been covering Major League Baseball for the Los Angeles Times since 1995 and spent 19 years as the Angels beat writer and two seasons on the Dodgers. He won Associated Press Sports Editors awards for game-story writing in 2001, feature-story writing in 2017 and breaking news in 2019. A native of East Lyme, Conn., and a graduate of Cal State Fullerton, he began writing for The Times in 1981.

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