What's Up With The 3 Hole?

Since the All-Star break, Angels' manager Mike Scioscia has filled the third spot in the batting order with his shortstop platoon of Maicer Izturis and Erick Aybar.  Although the Angels' record since the break is 5-1 and the team has scored 39 runs, the 3 hole as driven in a total of 3 runs.  Its not like there hasn't been anyone on base ahead of them, Figgins and Kotchman have a combined .327 OBP during those games (batting second, Kotchman has reached base at a .444 rate, but has scored only one run), and the duo has stranded 12 runners including 5 in the Angels' only loss.  Wouldn't it make more sense moving Kotchman down one spot and putting Kendrick batting second?  Kendrick might not be the prototypical #2 batter since he doesn't take a whole lot of pitches and rarely draws a walk, but he's a capable, contact-type hitter who's a doubles hitting machine with decent speed.  Kendrick is currently second on the team with 23 in only 208 at-bats (Kotchman leads the team with 24).  Kotchman is leading the Angels with a .289 batting average, but he's only driven in 48 runs having spent the first half of the season hitting near the bottom of the batting order.  Kotchman is also a high contact hitter, having struck out only 23 time in over 350 at-bats.  The batting order could look like this:

Figgins              3B
Kendrick            2B
Kotchman          1B
Guerrero            RF
Hunter               CF
Rivera             LF/DH
Anderson         DH/LF
Mathis Napoli      C
Izturis/Aybar      SS

As I wrote earlier, the Angels are 5-1 since the break, but I don't think its because of the new-look batting order.  I think they've scored 39 runs in spite of this line-up.  Scoiscia is notoriously slow in making changes, allowing his players the chance to prove themselves or work their way out of slumps.  Much like he did a couple years ago with Steve Finley and this year with Gary Matthews Jr., so we may be seeing this batting order for a while longer...or until they make a big trade.