HOUSTON — Ray Montgomery recently pulled Christian Moore aside for a gentle reminder.

“C-Mo,” the Angels’ interim manager said to his rookie second baseman, “You’re used to getting two hits every time you go play a game. That’s not going to happen here. You’re so closely removed from it that your mind takes time to catch up to that.”

It was only 15 months ago that Moore was dominating in the College World Series, completing an amateur career in which he simply had to show up to the field to be the best player out there.

Now, Moore is hitting is .202, and it took four hits in his last three games to get him over the Mendoza Line – aka .200 – for the first time in his “career.”

The word career goes in quotes because Moore, 22, has played only 37 big-league games, which certainly seemed l

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