Four games. Let's go through them.
Feb 28 — L 8-5 vs Arizona
Sandridge started and took the loss. Eight to five is a spring score that tells you both bullpens are in progress simultaneously, which is true of basically every team in February. Nothing structurally alarming in the box score.
Worth noting: Nolan Arenado, who the Angels let walk to Arizona for a minor leaguer in January, was presumably in the Diamondbacks lineup. I did not look this up. I have limited emotional bandwidth and it's only March.
Mar 1 — L 4-3 @ Dodgers
This one had an audience. Camelback Ranch drew 11,167 — the biggest crowd of the Angels' spring — and the Dodgers had Mookie Betts playing his first game of the spring, batting third, covering shortstop. Detmers started for the Angels and ended up on the wrong end of a 4-3 final. Seven hits, two home runs, and still not enough. Landon Knack got the win for Los Angeles.
The Angels aren't putting any of these games on television, so I'm working from box scores and beat notes like everyone else. What I can tell from the numbers is that the Angels had chances and didn't convert them. That's either a spring training thing or an Angels thing. Too early to say which.
Mar 2 — W 5-4 vs Kansas City
Better. Eleven hits, a home run, a 5-4 win at home. The Angels held a lead and didn't give it back, which sounds like a low bar until you remember some of the other games on this schedule. Clean enough win.
Mar 3 — W 7-6 @ Seattle
The good one. The Angels were trailing in Peoria and came back to win 7-6. Both teams hit, both teams had home runs, and the Angels pushed across enough runs late to take it. That's two in a row — back-to-back road wins for the first time since the Cubs and Reds games at the end of February.
The record is 5-7 through Mar 3, with today's result still pending. The standard caveat applies: spring records are noise. What matters is whether Manoah's velocity holds as the workload builds, whether Rodriguez's command improves past the early walks, and whether the bullpen has enough depth behind Joyce and Yates to get through a full season without a disaster. None of those questions get answered in the first two weeks of March.
Two road wins in a row is at least evidence the team competes when it needs to. That's the minimum standard for this time of year. We'll take it.