Slumping Angels 2B Ian Kinsler plans to keep ‘plugging away’

NEW YORK — Mike Scioscia’s optimistic outlook about Ian Kinsler is of little consolation to Kinsler.
Describing the slump the Angels’ second baseman has endured this year, Scioscia said some of the peripheral numbers — “the internals,” he called them — were more encouraging than his .185 batting average.
“All the ‘numbers around the numbers,’ it’d be nice if those counted,” Kinsler said. “The numbers outside the number