ANAHEIM, Calif. -- The Los Angeles Angels are searching for answers.Jose Altuve went 4 for 5 and scored four runs to help the Houston Astros beat the Angels 10-4 on Wednesday to complete the sweep of the three-game series.It was the second time Houston has swept Los Angeles in the last two weeks. The Astros finished the six games with 37 runs. It was Houstons eighth straight win over their AL West rivals, extending the longest winning streak against Los Angeles in franchise history.Houston has gone 35-20 since May 1, the third-best mark in the AL in that span.The loss prompted Angels manager Mike Scioscia to call a team meeting.They took it to us, no doubt. But we didnt do some things that we need to do, and we talked about it in there afterwards, Scioscia said. We need to start getting some games on our terms and winning situations early, and get some guy coming in out of the pen making pitches, and right now were struggling.The Angels, who left 12 men on base, finished the homestand 1-6 and went 8-18 over the month of June. The Angels are a season-high 15 games under .500 (32-47). Its the fewest wins the Angels have recorded in June since 1980.Were not getting the results that we normally get, Angels closer Huston Street said. I think every person in here is playing as hard as he can. You just go through stretches like this. We went through a month like this last year. It was August where I think we lost just as many games. You dont enjoy them when youre going through them. You just keep making pitches, making plays.Altuve, who extended his career-high on-base streak to 32 games, was a home run shy of the cycle and finished the series 8 for 14 with two RBI and six runs. Astros manager A.J. Hinch nearly sat Altuve for the series finale after the second baseman told him he was tired the night before. But Altuve protested and got his way, saying he could rest on the teams off day Thursday.He tried to give me the day off today and yesterday, but I didnt think that was a good idea, Altuve said. I just said it just to try to be in the lineup.Jered Weaver (6-7) pitched into the sixth inning but left after giving up a one-out solo home run to George Springer. In his third loss in five starts, Weaver allowed six earned runs and seven hits, walked four and struck out three.I thought he was up a little bit with some of his breaking pitches, and it hurt him, Scioscia said. He showed some signs of making some pitches, too. There were times he was sneaky, but I think overall, he just got behind some counts and those guys found some holes.Dallas Keuchel (5-9) limited the Angels to three runs and six hits over six innings to win his second straight decision.My fastball had a lot of life on it, Keuchel said. I was trying to kind of figure out where I needed to start the fastball and it took me a little bit I got it under control and finished strong.Houston added three runs in the ninth against Street, who has given up eight runs and 12 hits in his last six appearances.TRAINERS ROOMAngels: C Geovany Soto will begin a rehab assignment with Triple-A Salt Lake. Soto played 20 games before undergoing surgery to repair a torn right meniscus. He was placed on the 15-day DL on May 18.UP NEXTAstros: RHP Mike Fiers (5-3), who made an early exit in his last start giving up three runs, two earned, in 4 1/3 innings against the Royals, will start Friday against the White Sox. The Astros have won all five of his June starts.Angels: RHP Jhoulys Chacin (2-4) is making his second trip to Fenway Park this season and his first with the Angels on Friday night. Chacin previously recorded a win there as a member of the Braves on April 28, but has lost three of his last four starts with Los Angeles. Swell Water Bottle Clearance . - Raiders general manager Reggie McKenzie never doubted he would bring back coach Dennis Allen for a third year despite back-to-back 4-12 records. Swell Bottles Deals . Third-seeded Murray had the easiest path to victory on New Years Eve, barely breaking a sweat during his 6-0, 6-0 win over 2,129th-ranked Qatari wildcard recipient Mousa Shanan Zayed. http://www.swellbottlesales.com/ . Soukalova missed only one target and completed the 15-kilometre course in 40 minutes, 32.6 seconds for both victories in this seasons individual discipline. Darya Domracheva of Belarus was second, 34. Cheap Swell Bottles . This should be celebrated because it will not always be this way. With the amount of money given to players by their clubs these days, it is a wonder that so many of those teams allow the sport to continue to take away many of their assets so they can play for a different team in the middle of their season. Swell Bottle Wholesale . The native of Mont-Tremblant, Que., captured a World Cup downhill event Saturday, his second this year and fifth career victory on the circuit. When a season starts to slip away, as it has for many teams around the league right now, it breaks your soul as a player. The energy level in the building dips, the attention to detail falls off, the game prep starts to feel like homework. You start looking toward the offseason, just hoping to make it through the rest of the games healthy.I experienced it firsthand back in 2003 as a member of Steve Spurriers Washington Redskins. After a 3-1 start that included a win over Tom Brady and the Patriots, we were talking big at the beginning of October: playoffs, Super Bowl, Pro Bowls. Hey, everyone wanted in on this thing. Jump on the train.But success in the NFL can be so fleeting. We lost the next four games and never recovered. From 3-1 to 5-11. Brutal.Theres a reason coach Hue Jackson got visibly emotional while trying to describe how the Browns still havent won a game this season. Remember, these dudes on bad football teams -- coaches, players, executives -- theyre all human. And when the wheels start to loosen on a season and eventually fall off, theres nowhere to hide.I still remember a Sunday night game down in Miami when we blew a big lead. It was our sixth loss in seven games. The winning touchdown? The Dolphins caught us in a blitz, and I was left to make the tackle on Ricky Williams. But that didnt happen. Nope. Instead, I took a stiff-arm to the face as Williams walked in for the score. Good-bye.I still remember traveling to Chicago in Week 16, with Spurrier promising us an extended Victory Monday if we won that game -- three days off heading into the final week of the season. He threw a carrot out there for us, doing anything to buy a win. Didnt work. Paul Edinger kicked a game-winning field goal with five seconds left to beat us.I still remember Week 17, when we got shredded in our final home game by the Eagles. 31-7. In my opinion, Andy Reid called off the dogs in that one. He took it easy on us. Philly couldve scored 40 or maybe even 50 if they wanted to.That Eagles team went to the NFC Championship Game. Our squad? We went home.Yeah, we had some injuries. But so did everyone else. Thats life in the league. Talent? There was enough in our locker rroom to win.ddddddddddddCoaching? I loved the defensive staff. And while Spurriers stock as an NFL coach never recovered, Im not going to blame him. No way. Sure, I didnt agree with some of the structure of his program or the style of practices we had late in the season, but Spurrier didnt get stiff-armed by Ricky or smoked by Keyshawn Johnson on a post route in a blowout loss to the Bucs. Nope. That was me.A lot of us had an idea that Spurrier wouldnt be back the next season once the calendar flipped to December. And a lot of us were right. Owner Dan Snyder replaced Spurrier with Joe Gibbs in the offseason. And I would say uncertainty surrounding the head coach had an impact on the locker room, practice and our overall game prep as we finished out the year.Things just started to drag a bit. The pace of practice slowed down, the film study slipped and the game plans got lighter. We became that team sleepwalking through the daily routine. It was now work at the facility. That excitement of getting a fresh game plan? Thats for the playoff teams, the contenders. Ive experienced that excitement. And its great.But we didnt have that anymore. It was gone. Just like the energy in the building. That stuff quickly evaporated over the last month and a half of the season. Now we were just football zombies throughout the week. Clock in and clock out. Take some notes, and head home.Game day? Yeah, we still played hard because you have to in order to survive an NFL Sunday. You go out there soft, and youll probably end up on the cart with an injury. This game is too fast and too physical to walk around on that field like you dont care. Plus, we all knew we were basically auditioning for next season and the next head coach in Washington. Better put something good on tape, right?I often say that NFL seasons are fragile. And when the team breaks -- or shatters into a thousand little pieces like it did in 2003 -- you dont recover as a player. You just try to survive.ESPN.com NFL analyst Matt Bowen played seven seasons as a defensive back in the NFL. ' ' '