ANAHEIM—After three straight AL West titles the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim won’t be part of this postseason.The Angels were mathematically eliminated from postseason contention on Friday night, as Alex Rios hit a go-ahead RBI single in the ninth inning and Paul Konerko homered for the White Sox in a 2-1 victory that preceded the completion of Texas’ 10-3 win at Oakland.The Angels will miss the playoffs for the first time since 2006.The White Sox, who were eliminated from postseason contention with Tuesday’s loss at Oakland, tied the score 1-all in the fifth when Konerko ended a nine-pitch at-bat with his 38th home run into the lower seats in the left field corner.Konerko is second in the AL behind Toronto’s Jose Bautista, who leads the majors with 52.Francisco Rodriguez (1-4) took over in the ninth from starter Joel Pineiro and gave up a one-out walk to Juan Pierre, a single to Omar Vizquel and Rios’ line drive to center field. Matt Thornton (5-4) allowed two hits over two scoreless innings for the victory, retiring his final six batters after giving up singles to Peter Bourjos and Howie Kendrick to open the eighth.Freddy Garcia allowed a run and four hits through six innings, struck out five and walked two in his first start since Sept. 7. Garcia came in 15-3 lifetime against the Angels with a 2.45 ERA.Pineiro allowed a run and four hits over eight innings, striking out two and walking none in his second start off the disabled list. The right-hander got 13 groundball outs through the first five innings and 17 altogether.Kendrick hit a leadoff triple in the fourth inning for the Angels’ first hit and scored on Torii Hunter’s single.Konerko ended an 0-for-18 drought with a second-inning single and was quickly erased on a double-play grounder by Manny Ramirez, who was booed vigorously by the crowd of 41,046 in his return to Southern California. The Sox are 9-12 since acquiring Ramirez on waivers from the Los Angeles Dodgers on Aug. 31.Ramirez is batting .241 for the White Sox with one home run — his only RBI — and 19 strikeouts in 58 at-bats. When the 12-time All-Star joined the Dodgers at the non-roster trading deadline two seasons ago, he batted .396 with 17 homers and 53 RBI in 53 games down the stretch to lead them to an NL West title. The following season, he received a 50-game suspension for failing a drug test.

NOTES—Hunter flied out in the first with a runner at third base, struck out with runners at second and third in the sixth, and fanned again with runners at the corners in the eighth. The four-time All-Star has had two run-scoring hits in a game just once since July 4, and only four times since April 30. … The Angels’ four stolen bases gave them at least 100 in each of the last 10 seasons, something no other team has done.