(Audacy) As they look to avoid wasting another prime year of stars Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani, the Los Angeles Angels have decided to make a change at manager.
The Angels announced Tuesday afternoon that they've fired manager Joe Maddon as the team is in the midst of a 12-game losing streak. Third-base coach and former Padres slugger Phil Nevin will take over as the interim manager.
This outcome was hard to imagine after the Angels went 14-8 in April, but they've gone 13-21 since then. At 27-29, the Angels are 8.5 games back of the Houston Astros in the American League West.
While Trout snapped career-worst his 0-for-26 slump Monday evening, the Angels still lost 1-0 to the Boston Red Sox.
That came a day after the Angels lost a heartbreaking game to the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday, with rookie Bryson Stott hitting a walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth inning. The Phillies, who fired manager Joe Girardi last Friday, proceeded to sweep the Angels in their first series under interim manager Rob Thomson.
If this is it for the 68-year-old Maddon as a manager, he's had a pretty incredible run. While it didn't work out as the manager of the Angels, Maddon guided both the Tampa Bay Rays and Chicago Cubs to World Series appearances, with the Cubs snapping a 108-year World Series drought in 2016.
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