White Sox ace has Angels trumped again

Second verse, same as the first.

The Angels got their second crack at Chicago White Sox ace Chris Sale in six days, and just like they did Sunday night in U.S. Cellular Field, they looked helpless against the 6-foot-6, 180-pound left-hander.

Sale gave up three hits in 72/3 shutout innings Friday night in Angel Stadium, striking out 12 and walking three, to lead the White Sox to a 3-0 victory that dropped the Angels, who have lost five of six games, to 15-27 on the season.

Combined with his one-hit shutout Sunday night, Sale, 24, threw 162/3 scoreless innings against the Angels this week, giving up four hits and striking out 19. In five career games against the Angels, two in relief, Sale has held them to a .114 average (nine for 79).

“We haven’t gotten anything off him in two games,” Manager Mike Scioscia said of Sale. “He has good movement, throws the ball hard, and the few opportunities we had, he made pitches and got out of it. We didn’t get very many good looks at him at all.”

Thanks to Detroit’s win over Texas, the Angels didn’t lose any ground in the American League West, but they remain 12 games behind the Rangers, a huge deficit that is threatening to overwhelm the Angels, who have been baseball’s biggest disappointment this season.

“You’re not going to chew up this deficit in one day,” Scioscia said. “We’re not going to wake up tomorrow in first place. You can only win one game a day. You have to put your heart and soul into that game, play hard and grind it out. You have to focus on the process and play good ball.”

Sale retired the first 19 batters Sunday night before Mike Trout broke up his perfect game with a one-out single in the seventh.

There was no such no-hit threat Friday night, as Howie Kendrick led off the second with a single, but Sale was just as dominant as he was Sunday, allowing only one runner to reach third base.

After Trout walked with one out in the first, Sale struck out Albert Pujols with a nasty slider that froze the Angels slugger. Trout stole second and took third when catcher Tyler Flowers’ throw bounced into shallow center field.

Mark Trumbo walked to put runners on first and third, but Sale, who complements his 94-mph fastball with an 88-mph two-seam fastball, slider and changeup, got Josh Hamilton to pop to third, ending the inning.

Trumbo turned an apparent one-out single to left-center in the fourth into a hustle double, but he was stranded when Hamilton, looking completely overmatched, struck out on three pitches and Kendrick whiffed.

Hamilton’s strikeout dropped his average with runners in scoring position to .091 (three for 33).

Angels left-hander C.J. Wilson delivered one of his best starts of the season, giving up two runs and six hits in seven innings, striking out three and walking two, but that merely kept his team within striking distance.

Wilson, who has been hampered by control problems, opened the game with 10 straight strikes, but his 10th pitch was hammered over the wall in left-center by Alex Rios for a 1-0 White Sox lead. Rios has 10 homers on the season.

Wilson blanked Chicago on three hits over the next five innings but ran into trouble in the seventh when Dayan Viciedo singled with one out, took second on a groundout and scored on Conor Gillaspie’s single to center for a 2-0 lead.

Adam Dunn lined a solo homer to right off reliever Garrett Richards in the ninth for the final Chicago run.

The first two White Sox runs scored with two outs, pushing to 100 the number of runs the Angels have given up with two outs this season, most in the major leagues.

mike.digiovanna@latimes.com

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