Talk to anyone with an Angels' uniform on and the word is the same; This offensive slump will pass.

The Angels are too good, they say, and work too hard and care too much to stay in the downward spiral that has seen them drop four of five games and score just two runs in the last 36 innings against the Dodgers and A's as their 6.5-game lead in the AL West has dwindled to just 3.5.

Maybe it will turn around tonight (7:05, (FSNW-HD) with Ervin Santana (9-3, 3.34 ERA) on the mound for the Angels.

The bad news is he's facing unbeaten A's ace Rich Harden (5-0, 2.15) who's not likely to open things up much for the slumping Angels.

Although it's not just a recent slump, for an Angels team that's succeeding at an historic level despite scoring 84 fewer runs (341) than the Red Sox (425), the AL leaders in that category.

Only three teams in baseball history, all in the dead ball and dead bat era, the 1906 and 1907 Cubs and the 1910 A's, have managed to win a higher percentage of their three-or-fewer-runs-scored games than have the Angels (14-20, .444) according to research by STATS LLC.

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