Game Notes: Los Angeles Angels 5, Colorado Rockies 2

May 12, 2015; Anaheim, CA, USA; Los Angeles Angels center fielder Mike Trout (center) celebrates with Los Angeles Angels left fielder Collin Cowgill (left) and Los Angeles Angels right fielder Kole Calhoun (right) after the game against the Colorado Rockies at Angel Stadium of Anaheim. The Los Angeles Angels won 5-2. Mandatory Credit: Kelvin Kuo-USA TODAY Sports

Game notes from the Colorado Rockies’ game against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim on Tuesday night, May 12th, from sunny southern California.

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Kyle Kendrick pitched his heart out Tuesday night – seven innings, no walks, just two runs – but the Colorado Rockies still found a way to lose to the Los Angeles Angels to extend their losing skid to ten games.

The Rockies are now 11-18, which is still good enough for last place in the National League West, and quickly sinking behind the pack.

If you want to read the recap, go here; otherwise, read on below for some game notes and other things of importance around the Rockies from Tuesday night.

• Nick Hundley singled Tuesday night to extend his hitting streak to 13 games. That’s now tied for the second longest streak by a Rockies catcher, with Joe Girardi‘s 13-game streak in 1995. Yorvit Torrealba had a 16-game hitting streak in 2009.
• Hundley’s 13-game hitting streak is also the second-longest active streak in the big leagues.
• Coming into tonight, the Rockies’ rotation had an 8.86 ERA during the nine games of the losing streak.
• The last time the Rockies lost ten straight games was April 24-May 7, 2005. The club worst streak is a 13-game skid, which happened in 1993. Not surprisingly, the Rockies’ longest winning streaks came in 2007 and 2009, their recent playoff seasons.
• Over the first six innings, the Angels put a runner on second base in every frame against Kyle Kendrick except the first. Nevertheless, he ended up holding the Halos to just two runs over seven innings of work.
• Tuesday was just the third time that Kendrick has thrown more than five innings; interestingly, in all three outings above five innings, he’s gone a full seven. This was only the fourth time this season a Rockies starter has made it seven innings; three of those four belong to Kendrick.
• Kendrick got the Rockies’ sixth quality start (6+ IP, 3 runs or less) Tuesday night. Every other team in baseball has at least ten quality starts.
• Entering the game, Carlos Gonzalez had 24 strikeouts against just 18 hits in 93 at-bats. He went 0-for-4 with two strikeouts Tuesday, dropping his season average to .188.
• Albert Pujols stole a base in the eighth inning.
• In the eighth, the Rockies (well, Rafael Betancourt) allowed their first walk of the game, to Erick Aybar. He scored. Of course.

The Rockies are 0-10 in their last ten games, and are now 11-18 on the year. But if you think all that’s bad, at least the Rockies weren’t alone in their misery at the plate tonight:

The Rockies and Angels will again face off Wednesday night at Angel Stadium, before the Rockies drive about an hour up Interstate 5 to Dodger Stadium to take on the boys in blue for four games over the weekend.