ANAHEIM -- Griffin Canning navigated his way out of several jams to get through five innings with a lead, but the Angels were doomed by an ugly seventh inning defensively in a 4-3 loss to the Rangers that extended their losing streak to five games on Friday night at Angel Stadium.

The seventh featured a bit of everything from the Angels: two errors, a misplay on a potential double play, a wild pitch and a key walk after a close call on a 3-2 pitch that the Angels believed should’ve been a strikeout and caught-stealing double play.

“We just got a little sloppy defensively, and it hurt us,” Angels manager Brad Ausmus said. “We had a number of plays that weren’t made cleanly, and it helped extend the inning.”

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Here’s a look at the key plays in the inning, as well as how Canning worked his way through five eventful, yet ultimately solid innings:

The missed strike 3

With the Angels up by a one run, reliever Cam Bedrosian came in and induced a hard grounder to short from Shin-Soo Choo, but Zack Cozart couldn't handle it, allowing the Rangers’ leadoff man to reach base. Bedrosian then ran a full count against Logan Forsythe and threw what appeared to be a third strike on a potential double play, with Choo being thrown out at second as he tried to steal. Home-plate umpire Mark Wegner, however, ruled the pitch a ball, giving the Rangers two runners with no outs.

“I thought it was a pretty good pitch,” Bedrosian said. “In the heat of the situation it’s hard to tell sometimes. I thought it was pretty close. Definitely where I wanted it. You think you have two outs, and then the next thing you know you have first and second.”

Ausmus even took it a step further, as he had a chance to look at the video after the game and believed it was a strike on the inside part of the plate.

“Umpires are going to miss pitches, but I thought that was a strike,” Ausmus said. “We would have had two outs and nobody on. That definitely shifts the momentum.”

The botched double play opportunity

Nomar Mazara followed Forsythe's walk with a grounder to second, but this time it was Luis Rengifo who booted the play. Rengifo, though, recovered in time to get the out at first, but it gave Texas two runners in scoring position with one out.

Mazara, who grades out as an average runner according to Statcast, might’ve beat out a potential double play, but either way, it gave the Rangers a prime opportunity to take the lead.

“I don’t know if we would have had two,” Ausmus said. “But we would have had the lead runner.”

Trout’s rare error

Hunter Pence followed with a hard-hit liner into center that bounced off Mike Trout’s glove as he tried to field it, allowing both runs to score and Pence to reach second. It was the first error charged to Trout since April 26, 2017, snapping a span of 296 errorless games.

“I think Mike was caught in between diving and not diving and the ball took a hop,” Ausmus said. “We don’t see errors like that a lot from him, but it just happened to come at a tough time.”

Bedrosian escaped further damage, but with the two errors and the misplay, the Rangers were able to take the lead after trailing most of the game, as the Angels scored three times in the second, keyed by a solo homer from Jonathan Lucroy and a two-run shot from Brian Goodwin.

“Two guys scoring is unfortunate after Canning threw a real good game tonight,” Bedrosian said. “It sucks, but it’s part of the game.”

Canning’s effort wasted

The leaky seventh spoiled a solid showing from Canning, who wasn’t as dominant as his last start, when he threw seven scoreless against the Royals, but showed he can still pitch effectively when he doesn’t have his best stuff.

“He definitely didn’t have the same command as he did last time,” Ausmus said. “But he battled and found a way to get through five. If you don’t have your best stuff but you can get through five, it’s a plus.”

Canning immediately was in a hole, giving up a leadoff homer to Choo in the first, but he didn’t give up a run after that despite putting five runners on base over the next four innings. He walked two in the second with one out, but he got a key strikeout of Ronald Guzman before getting Isiah Kiner-Falefa to fly out to left.

He put two more runners on with nobody out in the third, only to escape trouble with a pair of strikeouts. His lone 1-2-3 inning came in the fourth, when he needed just seven pitches to get three outs. He pitched around a leadoff single in the fifth and finished his outing with 95 pitches, including 11 swinging strikes.

“I've had these outings before,” Canning said. “So to be able to kind of control it and get through five was a step in the right direction for me."

Canning was charged with one run on three hits, two walks and a hit batter in a no-decision, lowering his ERA to 3.42 in five career starts. But it wasn’t enough, as the loss dropped the Angels to six games under .500 at 22-28 for the first time since April 27, when they were 11-17.