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SEATTLE — For a night, everything looked and worked as planned.

The Angels have had good days, but they are increasingly distant. Friday marked another of the not-so-good days, with the team announcing third baseman Anthony Rendon was bound for season-ending surgery.

The way the Angels were playing during their franchise-record 14-game losing streak, with breakdowns in every facet of the game and the pressure mounting with every defeat, it seemed like it would take something extraordinary, something unexpected, for them to end their 2 1/2-week freefall.

There was no live chicken to sacrifice, and a bonfire of bats didn’t make sense, so in an effort to snap their two-week skid, the Angels all used the same walk-up song — some portion of “Photograph,” by Nickelback — throughout Wednesday night’s game against the Boston Red Sox.

Joe Maddon’s head was the first to roll but the problems don’t stop there.

Los Angeles’s knee-jerk response to a 12-game losing streak is more of the same impatience exhibited by owner Arte Moreno during his tenure.

Michael Wacha struck out Mike Trout chasing up the ladder at 95 mph gas in the fourth inning.

LOS ANGELES — The New York Mets are next on the Angels’ schedule. The Dodgers follow.

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