Halos staking claim as MLB's best

Lackey's near no-no, Teixeira trade highlight defining road trip A major star, Mark Teixeira, arrived to play first base and bring authority to the lineup. The ace, John Lackey, came within two outs of a no-hitter. There were five consecutive wins in the most hostile, challenging yards in America -- Fenway Park and Yankee Stadium. On their flight home Sunday night, the Angels could sit back and reflect on 10 extraordinary summer days along the East Coast. What a long, strange, stunningly successful trip it was. It may have ended with a dud and a thud in consecutive losses to the Yankees in The House That Ruth Built, but that could not diminish the remarkable series of events preceding those unhappy endings. The setbacks on Saturday and Sunday happened to coincide with Torii Hunter's return home to Arkansas for the funeral of... [read full story]