1995 California Angels season

MLB yearly infobox
name = California Angels
season = 1995
misc =

current league = American League
y1 = 1961
division = West Division
y2 = 1969
Uniform logo =
ballpark = Anaheim Stadium
y4 = 1966
city = Anaheim, California
y5 = 1966
owners = Gene Autry
managers = Marcel Lachemann
television =KTLA
Prime Sports West
(Ken Wilson, Ken Brett)
radio = KMPC
(Mario Impemba, Bob Starr)|

The California Angels' 1995 season featured the Angels finishing 2nd in the American League West with a record of 78 wins and 67 losses.

The 1995 California Angels went through one of the worst late-season collapses in major league baseball history. On August 16, California held an 10.5-game lead over the Texas Rangers and 11.5 game lead over the Seattle Mariners, but from August 16 to September 6 the Angels went on to lose 18 of their next 21 games. During this time period, the Angels lost 9 straight games from August 25 to September 3. On September 12, the Angels were still leading the Western Division. Their lead stood at six games over Seattle and 7.5 games over Texas before the Angels had a second nine-game losing streak from September 13 to September 23, falling out of first place

California rebounded to win the last five scheduled games to tie Seattle for the division lead, which forcing a tiebreaker game. Mark Langston was defeated by the Seattle Mariners' Randy Johnson 9-1 in the tiebreaker to end the Angels' season.cite web| author=Nightengale, Bob| title=The Angels are too hardy in not being hardy enough| publisher=The Sporting News| url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1208/is_n40_v219/ai_17495103 | date=October 2, 1995| accessdate=2007-09-21] [http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CAL/1995_sched.shtml 1995 California Angels] from Baseball-reference.com]

Offseason

*December 6, 1994: Rex Hudler was signed as a Free Agent with the California Angels. [http://www.baseball-reference.com/h/hudlere01.shtml]
*December 14, 1994: Lee Smith was signed as a Free Agent with the California Angels. [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/s/smithle02.shtml Lee Smith Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com ] ]

Regular Season

eason standings

Notable transactions

* April 13, 1995: Tony Phillips was traded by the Detroit Tigers to the California Angels for Chad Curtis. [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/p/phillto02.shtml Tony Phillips Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com ] ]
*April 18, 1995: Scott Sanderson was signed as a Free Agent with the California Angels. [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/s/sandesc01.shtml Scott Sanderson Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com ] ]
*April 18, 1995: Mike Bielecki was signed as a Free Agent with the California Angels. [http://www.baseball-reference.com/b/bielemi01.shtml]
*June 1, 1995: Darin Erstad was drafted by the California Angels in the 1st round (1st pick) of the 1995 amateur draft. Player signed July 26, 1995. [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/e/erstada01.shtml Darin Erstad Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com ] ]
*July 9, 1995: Mark Sweeney was traded by the California Angels to the St. Louis Cardinals for John Habyan. [http://www.baseball-reference.com/s/sweenma01.shtml]
*July 27, 1995: Jim Abbott was traded by the Chicago White Sox with Tim Fortugno to the California Angels for McKay Christensen, John Snyder, Andrew Lorraine, and Bill Simas. [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/a/abbotji01.shtml Jim Abbott Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com ] ]
*August 24, 1995: Mike Aldrete was traded by the Oakland Athletics to the California Angels for Demond Smith (minors). [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/a/aldremi01.shtml Mike Aldrete Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com ] ]

Player stats

Batting

"Note: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In"

Other pitchers

Relief pitchers

Farm system [Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., "The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball". Durham, N.C.: Baseball America, 1997]

* Class AAA: Vancouver Canadians (Pacific Coast League; Don Long, manager)
* Class AA: Midland Angels (Texas League; Mario Mendoza, manager)
* Class A: Lake Elsinore Storm (California League; Mitch Seoane, manager)
* Class A: Cedar Rapids Kernels (Midwest League; Tom Lawless, manager)
* Class SS-A: Boise Hawks (Northwest League; Tom Kotchman, manager) — LEAGUE CHAMPION
* Rookie: AZL Angels (Arizona League; Bruce Hines, manager)

References

External links

* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CAL/1995.shtml 1995 California Angels team page at Baseball Reference]
* [http://baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=1995&t=CAL 1995 California Angels team page at www.baseball-almanac.com]