With a week left in June, the Angels are in a position that seemed unlikely at the start of the season: contention.
Everything that happened on the field this weekend was overshadowed by Albert Pujols’s return to St. Louis, but following a 6-4 win over the Cardinals Sunday night, Los Angeles is just four games behind Cleveland for the second wild-card spot (though it remains 10 games behind the Astros in the AL West).
It’s too much to expect the Angels to compete for a division title; they’re in fourth place and the Houston juggernaut is too good to catch.