For a team like the Angels that has already been eliminated from playoff contention, these last few games of the season are all about finding silver linings amid the bad and the mundane. This last week doesn’t really have any impact on their place in the standings for this year, after all, so finding reasons for optimism is all that you really can do at this point.
One such silver lining this weekend was the opportunity to play spoiler against a Mariners team that desperately needed to rack up wins in order to keep their Wild Card hopes alive, and after the Halos played that role to perfection during their 14-1 demolition of Seattle on Saturday, they’ll have another chance to deal one more crushing blow the playoff aspirations of their division rivals during their home finale on Sunday afternoon.