It didn't play out that way. The Angels scratched across single runs in the 3rd, 4th and 5th innings and made it stand up, while Houston's offense stayed dead quiet against Klassen and the Angels' bullpen until finally scoring in the 8th.
Houston finished with just 3 hits on the night, a rough final line for a lineup that's supposed to be the deeper of the two. Javier's command issues have been a season-long theme — he was bumped to the bullpen for a stretch before working back into the rotation — and this outing did little to settle the question of whether that fastball has its life back.
The Angels are buried at 49-76 and were coming off a loss, but they'd shown signs of life in low-scoring games recently, including a 1-0 win over Kansas City. That kind of pitching-forward stretch showed up again here. Houston, at 63-62, has now dropped 3 straight and will need Javier or someone else to find outs more consistently if that number is going to hold up the rest of the way.
Neither team's injury report changed dramatically overnight, but Houston's path back to full health matters more than the Angels' at this point — Correa and Matthews are reinforcements for a club still hanging around the fringes of the race, while L.A. is mostly just playing out the string.