"The Angels certainly haven't made it easy on the new guy.

Walking the same tightrope his rotation-mates have had to navigate with the Angels' offense stuck in neutral, Dan Haren slipped up often enough for the Toronto Blue Jays to hand him and the Angels a 4-1 defeat Sunday afternoon.

Haren is now 1-3 as an Angel despite a more-than-respectable 3.44 ERA in his five starts with the team. He wasn't at his best Sunday and the Angels' offense has given him no leeway to be anything less. The Angels have scored a total of 13 runs in his five starts - only six during the 34 innings when he was on the mound.

"The margin of error has been a little thin," Haren grudgingly admitted. "I did what I could with the situations that came up. By no means is it the offense's fault. I'm the one who went out there and gave up four runs and gave up the hits. The loss gets pinned on me."

Haren actually did well to limit the Blue Jays to just four runs. He gave up nine hits and walked one in seven innings and did well to limit the Jays to one run when they loaded the bases with one out in the fourth and two runs when they loaded the bases again with no outs in the sixth.

"I backed myself into a corner with a couple jams," Haren said. "They never landed the big blow against me."

The Angels' offense didn't land much of anything against Jays starter Ricky Romero. They had six hits and three walks in seven innings against the newly-rich Romero (he signed a $30 million contract extension Saturday) but went hitless in five at-bats with runners in scoring position."