HOUSTON — The Angels were having a good day for about 10 minutes.

Zach Neto and Jo Adell hit a pair of home runs in a span of four batters in the fourth inning, giving the Angels a brief one-run lead.

Everything that happened before and after that was bad, as the Angels lost to the Houston Astros, 8-3, on Monday afternoon.

The Angels (64-73) got out of Houston with a split in the four-game series, which was an accomplishment considering that they scored 10 runs in the series.

The Angels managed only seven hits on Monday, and they did not have an at-bat with a runner in scoring position until there was one out in the ninth and they were down by five. By contrast the Astros put themselves into scoring position by stealing second five times, and they sprayed 12 hits all over the field, in

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