DENVER — The end of Kyle Hendricks’ season has been much like the rest of it.
“Up and down, for sure,” the Angels’ right-hander said. “I’m proud of bouncing back. I feel like there was so much left that was undone. There was a lot of bad, a lot of negatives. But I think there’s been a lot of positives lately.”
Over his last three starts, Hendricks pitched seven scoreless innings against the Minnesota Twins, then he gave up nine runs against the Seattle Mariners , and then he shut out the Colorado Rockies for seven innings on Saturday.
His performance against the Rockies — in the 300th start of his career — was the story of the game until Mike Trout belted his 400th homer in the eighth inning .
A day later, Hendricks said he was happy to take a back seat to Trout.
“It was so cool t