The Angels and Reds each threw no-hitters last week. The former served as a symbolic step forward and made the club’s shortcomings of the recent past feel ever so distant. The latter was pulled off by a team in the midst of a historically awful start, in front of an announced crowd of just over 10,000, and, remarkably, resulted in a loss. If there’s a lesson to be learned from these true statements, it’s this: baseball, like life, has a sick sense of humor sometimes.
Here’s Week 5 of SI’s power rankings.