ANAHEIM — Leaking oil and dropping parts like a cartoon jalopy, the Los Angeles Angels reached the end of the line Sunday afternoon.

Their 2007 season came to a crashing halt with a 9-1 loss to the Boston Red Sox, ending the American League Division Series with a three-game sweep.

The Angels were outscored 19-4 in getting ushered out of the playoffs by the Red Sox faster than you can sing "Sweet Caroline" for the second time in the past four seasons. The Angels were also swept in the first round by the Red Sox in 2004 and have now lost nine consecutive postseason games to Boston, starting with the infamous Donnie Moore game (Game 5 of the 1986 American League Championship Series).

"We're not happy," manager Mike Scioscia said. "This is extremely disappointing. We fully felt we were going to come in and play better and didn't.

"To get this far after all we dealt with as a team all year is a terrific accomplishment. That doesn't make us feel any better when we wake up tomorrow. It doesn't make us feel any better about this series."

In an apt choice, the team's medical director Dr. Lewis Yocum and athletic trainer Rick Smith — himself among the walking wounded thanks to a foul ball into the Angels' dugout Friday night — were part of the first-pitch ceremony before Game 3.

The Angels then took the field without their starting center fielder Gary Matthews Jr. (out for the series with patellar tendinitis in his left knee) or starting first baseman Casey Kotchman (hospitalized Sunday with a non-baseball-related illness) and with starting right fielder Vladimir Guerrero playing despite a bruise to the back of his left shoulder suffered in Game 2, not to mention the tendinitis in his right triceps that plagued him over the past month. By the third inning, the Angels also lost their starting left fielder.

After playing the first two games of the series with a red and irritated right eye, Garret Anderson asked out of Sunday's game when his vision deteriorated.

"Not having Gary, Garret was trying to hit with one eye," Angels reliever Justin Speier said. "I know he will not use that as an excuse. But this game is hard enough to play when you're 100 percent, let alone 50 percent.

"But we had guys who can step up and fill in. We had guys step up and fill roles all season."

Spare parts were enough to keep the Angels running through a season-long string of injuries. But they weren't enough to make them competitive against the Red Sox.

"It's part of the season — guys are going to get hurt. We got hit by some of ours at the wrong time," Scioscia said. "They (the Red Sox) are not going to let us call them in a month from now when everybody is healthy and say, Hey, let's play this series again.' They beat us. It wasn't because of our health. Those guys went out there and beat us. That's the bottom line."

Two guys, in particular, did most of the damage — David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez. Ortiz had a two-run home run in Game 1, and Ramirez had the three-run game-ending homer in Game 2. In Game 3, they went deep back-to-back in the first 10 pitches of the fourth inning, the only mistakes Angels starter Jered Weaver of Simi Valley made.

"We were talking before the game about how we wanted to go after Ortiz," Weaver said. "I didn't want to throw any heaters in because I'd thrown him two heaters in before, and he'd hit them both out."

But after getting a first-pitch strike with Ortiz leading off the fifth, catcher Mike Napoli called for a fastball in. Weaver said he went along with the call "in the rhythm of the game" but didn't put the pitch far enough inside.

"I left it down and in where he obviously likes it," Weaver said. Ramirez followed, and Weaver got ahead 0-2 before Ramirez laid off three consecutive pitches to run the count full. He fouled off two more pitches before launching a hanging slider over the center-field fence.

"I felt like they weren't really swinging at my slider. They didn't seem to think I was going to throw it for strikes because I usually start it in the zone then let it fade off the plate," Weaver said. "So I was thinking maybe if I threw one for a strike, he wouldn't be expecting it. Obviously you don't plan on hanging it, either."

The Red Sox added seven runs in the eighth off the Angels' bullpen. But the 2-0 lead was insurmountable enough for an Angels offense handcuffed by Game 3 starter Curt Schilling — and every other Boston pitcher they faced in this series.

The Angels managed to score in just two of the 27 innings and hit .192 (19 for 99) as a team including 2 for 22 with runners in scoring position. Their best chance to score off Schilling on Sunday came in the third inning when they loaded the bases with two outs for their cleanup hitter — Reggie Willits who had replaced Anderson. Willits fouled out to the catcher.

"I was trying to fight it off, just couldn't quite get it up into the stands," Willits said. "He (Schilling) didn't miss much over the plate. Everything he was throwing in the zone was on the corners. He was being himself."