Something bad can always happen and it always seemed to happen to the Angels. Moore committed suicide three years after Henderson’s home run. The Red Sox took three in a row to win the ALCS. Most painful of all, they were a strike away from their first World Series appearance in 1986 and Dave Henderson homered off Donnie Moore. In 1995, they took an 11-game lead in the American League West and blew it all to Seattle. The Angels took a 2-0 lead in the 1982 playoffs and lost three in a row to Milwaukee. The Angels don’t have a century’s worth of sloppy sentimentality behind them like the Cubs and Red Sox, but this expressway franchise has been painted as haunted.
