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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Just when the Angels were starting to show signs of righting their ship, winning two in a row and playing one of their best games of the season a night earlier, the progress was stalled, mostly because of difficult nights for Jaime Barría and Justin Bour.
Barría gave up seven runs in his worst outing as a major leaguer and Bour had a defensive miscue and an empty night at the plate in the Angels’ 9-4 loss to the Kansas City Royals on Saturday.
“I never had a game like that,” Barría lamented in Spanish. “I think I just have to keep working, focus on my next outing and always give my best.”
Barria’s night began in the second inning, because the Angels had used Cam Bedrosian as an opener. Bedrosian pitched a scoreless first, but then Barría struggled immediately when he took the mound in the second.
He gave up a run in a 30-pitch inning, explaining that he was having trouble adjusting in the cold windy night.
In the third inning, it got much worse.
“It seemed like all the hits, especially with two strikes, were in the middle of the plate and they took advantage,” Manager Brad Ausmus said.
Barría allowed back-to-back singles to Adalberto Mondesi and Alex Gordon. Barría then hung a slider to Hunter Dozier, who knocked a triple off the fence down the right-field line. O’Hearn singled into right, making it 4-1.
“My slider didn’t work today,” Barría said.
When Barría finally appeared to have gotten an out, even that didn’t work.
The Angels were shifted against right-handed hitting Jorge Soler, with second baseman Luís Rengifo on the left side of the bag. Soler checked his swing and poked a soft little roller to the right side. First baseman Justin Bour started toward the ball but then stopped, believing Rengifo was behind him. The ball trickled into the outfield, for a double.
“Honestly I didn’t realize how far Rengifo had been shifted,” Bour said. “I thought he was going to come make the play. It’s one of those ones I have to keep going and chase it into right field.”
It was the third mental mistake Bour has made in the past two weeks. In Chicago, he walked off second base after he had been called safe because he believed he had been tagged out. Replays showed he had been, but he admitted he still should have waited until a challenge changed the call. Then during the last homestand, he failed to run on a popup, allowing the Seattle Mariners to let the ball drop and get a double play.
Compounding all of that, Bour is not hitting. His average has dropped to .176 and his on-base percentage to .274. He has only two homers.
One big hit could have helped erase some of that.
Just after the third inning put the Angels in a 7-1 hole, they mounted a rally to get within 7-4, and they still had the bases loaded when Bour came to the plate.
He struck out.
“Obviously we think he’s a better hitter than what he’s shown so far,” Ausmus said. “That’s for sure.”
Bour said he is frustrated but confident that, through daily work with the hitting coaches, he can reverse this season-opening slump.
“You’ve got to show up and be ready to go tomorrow,” he said. “Analyze it. See what adjustments need to be made and come play tomorrow. I have been working every day with the hitting coaches. It’s a work in progress.”
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