ANAHEIM, Calif. —Joe Maddon has insisted that the Angels have the ingredients to be a championship team, but he conceded that they didn’t look like one in their 5-4 loss to the Baltimore Orioles on Saturday night.
The Angels made two critical defensive mistakes that led to three unearned runs in the seventh, just after they had taken a two-run lead.
“You can slice that how many different ways you want to, we should have won the game,” Maddon said. “We didn’t win it because of us… We beat ourselves tonight. You can’t win championships doing that kind of stuff. You cannot. We have to be better than that. It’s not for lack of work, or lack of caring. We’ve just got to make those plays.”
