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Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
LA Angels 4, Toronto 3
When: 7:07 PM ET, Thursday, September 12, 2013
Where: Rogers Centre, Toronto, Ontario
Temperature: 70°
Umpires: Home - Hal Gibson III, 1B - Mike Everitt, 2B - Tim Welke, 3B - Toby Basner
Attendance: 20767

Angels 4, Blue Jays 3: Garrett Richards worked 6 2/3 solid innings and Kole Calhoun continued his hot hitting with a solo homer as visiting Los Angeles completed a three-game sweep.

Richards (7-6) allowed three runs on nine hits en route to his third straight victory. Calhoun finished 2-for-3 with a walk while Erick Aybar added a pair of hits and scored twice.

Blue Jays left-hander J.A. Happ (4-6) was tagged for four runs on six hits over 4 1/3 innings. Jose Reyes led the Toronto offense with four hits, including a homer, while Moises Sierra posted his second straight three-hit performance.

With the Angels leading 2-1 in the third inning, Reyes belted a solo homer to right and Sierra put Toronto ahead with a run-scoring double. Calhoun evened things in the fourth with a solo shot into the seats in right-center, and Mike Trout's ground-rule double in the fifth scored Aybar to make it 4-3.

The Los Angeles bullpen took care of the rest, limiting Toronto to two hits over the final 2 2/3 innings. Michael Kohn recorded the final out of the seventh, Dane De La Rosa worked around Sierra's double in the eighth and Ernesto Frieri stranded a pair in the ninth to record his 33rd save.

GAME NOTEBOOK: Calhoun has RBIs in 15 of the last 16 games in which he has started. ... The Angels won the season series 5-1. ... Sierra has eight hits over his last three games, raising his average 88 points to .322.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
LA Angels   Toronto
Garrett Richards Player J.A. Happ
Win W/L Loss
6.2 IP 4.1
4 Strikeouts 6
9 Hits 6
4.05 ERA 6.23
Hitting
LA Angels   Toronto
Kole Calhoun Player Jose Reyes
2 Hits 4
1 RBI 1
1 HR 1
5 TB 9
.667 Avg 1.000
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
LA Angels 8 1 13 .229 14 9 3 4 0 0
Toronto 11 1 20 .306 17 8 3 3 0 1