Angels' offense collapses in 3-12 stretch over last 15 games
Los Angeles scored just 3.4 runs a game while allowing 3.87 during a 3-12 skid, with the pitching staff outperforming opponents' scoring norms even as the lineup faltered.
Published: · Figures as of September 9, 2026
Asked: How have the Angels played over their last 15 games?
Angels have lost 12 of their last 15, scoring 3.4 runs a game while allowing 3.87
That's a 3-12 stretch (September 8 back to August 23), a sharper skid than their 6-14 mark over the last 20 games in the same profile — the last 15 have been worse than the 20-game window that contains them.
The offense has been the bigger problem. Los Angeles is scoring 3.4 runs per game over this stretch, 1.16 runs below the league rate (4.56) and 1.09 below what these specific opponents (Cleveland, the Yankees, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Boston, Texas) were allowing coming into the games — a real drop-off, not just tough competition. The pitching/defense side has actually outperformed its opponents' scoring norms, allowing 3.87 runs a game against an expected 4.68 from those same opponents (a going-in edge of 0.81 runs), so the staff has kept them in games the lineup then failed to win.
| Date | Scored (runs/game) | Allowed (runs/game) |
|---|---|---|
| 8/23-9/8 | 3.4 | 3.87 |
- league average runs/game: 4.56 runs/game
Notably, this skid includes a 3-game sweep-out in Pittsburgh where Los Angeles was outscored 6-2 and lost the finale 1-0, and a scoreless-until-the-ninth loss to Philadelphia. They did close the window with back-to-back games in Boston, splitting them (a loss then a win), which is the current one-game win streak reflected in their season snapshot.
None of this changes the bigger picture — at 54-90 they sit last in the American League and 34.5 games back — but the offensive falloff over these 15 games (1.16 runs below league average) is a sharper, more recent version of a problem that's been present most of the season, given a full-season margin of -0.49 runs per game.