Mike Scioscia has stressed all season that the focus of his players and coaches needs to be “in-house,” but he won’t fault anyone in the team’s Globe Life Park dugout of peeking at the out-of-town scoreboard in left field on Sunday.
The Angels enter the noon Pacific time regular-season finale against the Texas Rangers a game behind Houston for the second American League wild-card spot, and the Astros will start their game at Arizona at the same time.
The Angels need to beat Texas and need the Astros to lose to force a one-game tiebreaker in Houston to determine the final playoff entrant on Monday.