--The Angels are only the second team since the 1930 Cardinals to have 10 players drive in 50 or more runs. The 2007 Tigers also had 10 players with 50 or more RBIs (including OF Craig Monroe, who drove in 55 before being traded).

--Angels starting pitchers led the majors with a 2.96 ERA in September. They lowered their season ERA from 5.00 to 4.48 over a 33-game stretch, moving from 12th among American League starting staffs to fifth.

--With Thursday's loss, the Angels finished with just eight wins in 19 games against the Rangers this season. That is their first losing season against the Rangers in five years.

--RHP Jered Weaver received the inaugural Nick Adenhart Award, instituted to honor the young pitcher who was killed in a car accident earlier this season. The award goes to the pitcher voted by his teammates as the Angels' best for the season. Weaver is 15-8 with a 3.84 ERA and leads the team with 206 innings pitched and four complete games.

BY THE NUMBERS
0 -- Grand slams hit by the Angels this season (the only AL team without one this season). The Angels have not gone through a whole season without a grand slam since 1974.

QUOTE TO NOTE
"We try to fly flags. We don't talk." -- RHP John Lackey, responding to the Texas Rangers' trash-talking earlier this season.

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