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PITCHING COMPARISON OFFENSIVE COMPARISON

WITH A.L. RANKING WITH A.L. RANKING
2024 2025 2024 2025
ERA 4.56 (14th) 4.89 (15th) RUNS 635 (13th) 673 (12th)
BAA .246 (13th) .260 (15th) AVG .229 (13th) .225 (15th)
WHIP 1.35 (14th) 1.43 (15th) HR 165 (11th) 226 (3rd)
ERA - SP 4.97 (15th) 4.91 (15th) SLG .369 (13th) .397 (10th)
ERA - RP 3.99 (8th) 4.86 (15th) OBP .301 (13th) .298 (14th)
BB 601 (14th) 620 (15th) XBH 407 (14th) 455 (10th)
SO 1,252 (15th) 1280 (14th) OPS .670 (13th) .695 (12th)
HOME SWEET HOME: On Aug. 6 vs. Tampa Bay, Mike Trout hit his 200th
career homer at Angel Stadium to become the 27th player all-time to 2025 OFFENSIVE LEADERS
have 200+ HR at one ballpark and the first player in MLB history with
200+ HR and 100+ SB at any one ballpark.
AVG .264 Schanuel
LEADING OFF: The Angels established a single-season franchise record RUNS 86 Ward
with 11 leadoff home runs in 2025...Zach Neto hit nine leadoff homers
which set a new individual franchise single-season record, and eclipsed HITS 132 Ward
the previous mark of seven by Brian Downing in 1987...Neto’s four HR 37 Adell
leadoff HR in May matched the MLB single-season record for the month, XBH 69 Ward
joining Jose Altuve (May 2022) and Shohei Ohtani (May 2025). RBI 103 Ward
CLOSE CALLS: The Angels went 28-21 (.571) in one-run games in 2025, SB 26 Neto
which tied for the sixth-best winning percentage in the Majors...Halos OBP .359 Trout
also had 40 comeback wins, which were third-most among American SLG .485 Adell
League teams, and the most for the Angels in a season since 2017 (47
comeback wins). OPS .797 Trout
OUCH: For a third consecutive season, Angels batters set a new single-
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season Club record for hit by pitches, with 87 HBP in 2025 (previous
record was 86 HBP in 2024)...On Sept. 5 vs. Athletics, Mike Trout was
hit by a pitch for the 106th time in his career, which established a new 2025 PITCHING LEADERS
Angels record...The previous mark belonged to Angels Hall of Famer
Brian Downing (105 HBP)...On Sept. 7 vs. A’s, the Halos were hit by five WINS 10 Soriano
pitches, which set a new single-game franchise record. GAMES 69 Burke
TURNING THREE: In a Freeway Series game against the Dodgers on Aug. STARTS 33 Kikuchi
12 at Angel Stadium, the Angels turned the eighth triple play in franchise ERA - SP 3.99 Kikuchi
history and first since Aug. 18, 2023 vs. Tampa Bay...With Brock Burke ERA - RP 2.59 Jansen
on the mound and runners on first and second base, Dodgers DH Shohei
Ohtani lined out to Zach Neto, who stepped on second base and tossed BAA - SP .249 Soriano
to first to complete the play. BAA - RP .175 Jansen
INNINGS 178.1 Kikuchi
RELIEVER OF THE MONTH: Kenley Jansen was named A.L. Reliever of
the Month for July...In 11 games, he went 2-0 with five saves, a 0.00 STRIKEOUTS 174 Kikuchi
ERA (11.1 IP - 0 ER) and 13 strikeouts...It was his third career monthly WHIP 1.28 Hendricks
honors after winning N.L. Reliever of the Month in June 2017 and July/ SAVES 29 Jansen
August 2020...He was the fifth Angels pitcher to win the award, joining
Francisco Rodriguez (Aug. 2006 and June 2008), Mike Mayers (Sept.
2020), Raisel Iglesias (July 2021) and Carlos Estévez (June 2024).
ORIGINAL STARTING FIVE: The Angels were the only team to use exactly five starting pitchers throughout the first
half of the 2025 season (Yusei Kikuchi, José Soriano, Jack Kochanowicz, Tyler Anderson and Kyle Hendricks)...
LAA established a new franchise record for the most games (96) to begin a season using no more than five starters
(Halos used five starters through the first 80 games in 1999)...Over the last decade, the only other teams to use
five starters through the first 96 games were the 2018 Astros (126 games) and 2016 Cardinals (98 games).
OPENING DAY STAPLE: With his start on Opening Day in Chicago, Mike Trout matched Garret Anderson’s franchise
record with his 13th career Opening Day start...It was Trout’s first Opening Day start as a designated hitter after
making 12 consecutive Opening Day starts in center field from 2013-24.

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