out to end it.

“You hit seven home runs in a game that’s obviously a positive thing,” Walsh said. “I would have liked to get the win, but the offensive has been needing to pick it up a little bit, so it’s a positive sign.”

It all amounted to a strange loss because the Angels’ pitching was not good enough.

Right-hander Janson Junk gave up six runs in the third inning after starting the game by facing the minimum six hitters in the first two innings.

Junk had worked five scoreless innings in his previous start, but that all came crashing down quickly on Thursday afternoon.

After a single and a groundout to start the inning, Junk walked two straight hitters, then he gave up two straight two-run doubles and a two-run homer.

“That third inning just got away from us a little bit with Junky,” Nevin said. “He just lost his command. The hits I don’t worry about, but walking the (Number) 9 and 1, is what caused the most damage.”

Junk agreed with Nevin’s assessment: “It starts with the walks. Can’t be doing that. If I don’t do that, then we win the game. So that one’s on me.”

He followed the walks with some misplaced breaking balls.

Junk’s specialty pitch is his slider, which he leaves up in the zone because it has sharp horizontal movement without the normal vertical drop. However, he gave up both doubles — to Ramon Laureano and Sean Murphy — on sliders that hung at the top of the zone.

He hung a curveball over the middle of the plate that Seth Brown drilled over the right field fence, completing the six-run inning and ending Junk’s day.

Touki Toussaint followed him to the mound and gave up a two-run homer to Laureano in the fourth, putting the Angels down, 8-3.

After that, though, Toussaint hung around to pitch 4 1/3 innings with no other runs scoring. He threw 85 pitches and induced 13 whiffs.