SHOHEI OHTANI may have played his last game in an Angels uniform (Angels photo).

By Greg Beacham/AP Sports Writer

ANAHEIM (AP) – Shohei Ohtani navigated through the bags and boxes strewn across the Los Angeles Angels` clubhouse after their season finale, exchanging hugs and memorabilia signatures with his teammates while they all packed up for the winter.

Everybody in the building knew this might be Ohtani`s final game day with this team after six unprecedented years, and the uncertainty over their beloved two- way superstar looms above every other question hanging over the Halos.

Brandon Drury homered twice, doubled and drove in three runs, and the Angels wrapped up their eighth consecutive losing season with a 7-3 victory over the major league-worst Oakland Athletics on Sunday.

Ohtani was in the Angels` dugout all weekend, cheering on his teammates for their final two games less than two weeks after having surgery on his pitching elbow. Ohtani can become a free agent after the World Series, and the Halos haven’t made the playoffs or finished higher than third in the AL West during his tenure in Anaheim.

“Shohei is going to make the best decision for himself and his family, and we respect that, (but) we hope he`s an Angel for the rest of his career,” said Angels outfielder Mickey Moniak, who had a breakout season – particularly while hitting behind Ohtani. “I’d love to be his teammate for a really long time.”

The Angels finished their latest hugely disappointing season at 73-89, matching their 2022 record to close out their ninth straight non-playoff campaign. They`ve got the majors` longest active streak of losing records, and their playoff drought is matched by Detroit for the majors` longest.

PHIL NEVIN (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Los Angeles was 56-51 at the trade deadline and made several acquisitions in a bid to contend, but flopped immediately after the deadline with a seven-game skid, eventually going 17-38 in the season’s final two months while losing Ohtani, Mike Trout, Anthony Rendon and Taylor Ward for the year to injury.

“I know it didn`t go the way we wanted, but I`m proud of the way that room held together,” said manager Phil Nevin, who was fired on Monday. “It wasn`t fun. It`s not fun ending the way we did, but it`s a great group in there. There`s a lot of great things that are on the horizon here with the young players and the guys coming back. Good future.”

The Angels didn`t schedule an end-of-the-season news conference with general manager Perry Minasian, whose future also seems to be in question after three unsuccessful years in charge.

IN ATTENDANCE

The Angels had 26,539 fans at the season finale, finishing with 2,640,575 at the Big A this season. That’s more than last season’s 2,457,461, but fewer than every other season of full-capacity crowds in Anaheim since 2002, when the franchise’s only World Series championship led to 17 consecutive seasons of at least 3 million fans.