Suarez and Rendon Bring the Angels Back to .500

Alex Cobb was back on the mound in Arizona playing by NL rules. He was against a tough lefty, so run support would be minimal. Not that it mattered as he himself had a no good very bad day. 3 innings, 5 runs, although not all were earned. Thankfully, Jose Suarez pitched stellar relief, going 4 innings and allowing just 1 run. And the offense came through with 8 runs to win the game and get back to .500!

Recap

Clobbered Cobb

The Angels had a Justin Upton leadoff walk but he was stranded. Alex Cobb hit himself a 1-2-3 inning to begin his game.

Churches started the second off with an infield base hit. Yet, once again, he was stranded there. Things didn’t go as smoothly for Cobb in the second, but nothing came in to site against him.

For the third, Upton drew another walk, but, again, was stranded, again. Which was rather unfortunate as Cobb allowed 5 runs in the bottom of the 3rd. How did this happen? By beating the shift constantly, and errors. All with 2 outs.

Down 5-0, Rendon partly made up for his mistakes with a leadoff home run. Lagares hit a double off the glove, and Gosselin drove him in with a bloops single. 5-2 Arizona.

Suarez Super Relief

Suarez came in for the bottom of the 4th, and had a shutdown inning to send the offense back out there.

Upton led off the fifth with his third walk of the game. Stassi and Rendon hit back to back doubles to make it 5-4 Arizona. Suarez had himself a 1-2-3 inning to keep the score within one.

Oh I’ll tell you alright, I was about to summon it

In the 6th, they stranded a runner like usual. Suarez though, continued to pitch well, making his case to be in the rotation, keeping it a 5-4 game after 6.

Walsh walked in the 7th, finally not striking out, but he was stranded. Stretch time and Suarez went back out there. Things didn’t go well this time, as he gave up a leadoff home run. 6-4 Arizona after 7.

Taylor Ward hit a single and Shohei Ohtani pinch hit a single as well. 2 on and Wong pinch hit for the pitcher. He sacrificed Ward in to make it a 1 run game again.

Anchor Leg

So it made perfect sense to bring in Claudio to pitch the 8th? Well, he got all 3 batters out. Perhaps he is getting good now.

It was the last gasp for the Halos. Jared Walsh started it off with a leadoff double. Stassi followed it up with a single to put runners on the corners for Rendon. A sac fly tied the game! 6-6. Churches got a hit, and so did Ward, 8-6 Angels!

IT’S HAPPENING!

D-Cell had a save opportunity, with a 2 run lead this time. That was surely needed as with 2 outs, a solo home run made it a 1 run game. It was just a blip, as he got the last out and the Angels are back to .500!

Upcoming

The Angels are now 32-32 on the season and face Arizona one more time tomorrow afternoon. It’s very much a must win against the worst team in baseball. A chance to sweep and have a 5 game winning streak.

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DowningDude
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2 years ago

THREE CHEERS FOR STRENGTH OF SCHEDULE “HIP HIP – HOORAY”

Mia
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Mia
2 years ago

Patrick is gonna get it done today. Believe that.

Twebur
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2 years ago
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Eric_in_Portland
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2 years ago

checking the box scores from last night…Adell 3 hits but also caught stealing and picked off. Bees won comfortably, Rengifo 2 HRs.

Rocket City has won 5 straight. Detmers went 4 yesterday, gave up 1 run, whiffed 6 but it took 87 pitches to get through those 4 innings.

eyespy
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2 years ago
Reply to  Twebur

Cue shot for sure

Twebur
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2 years ago
Reply to  eyespy

PoolHall Strong! Johnny Lang Rack’em up

Last edited 2 years ago by Twebur
Eric_in_Portland
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2 years ago
Reply to  Twebur

he’d had a rough week but had a bunch of hits yesterday to get back to .300

tommyshalo
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2 years ago

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eyespy
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2 years ago
Reply to  tommyshalo

I was ready to give all of my personal information for a chance to win

Brent
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2 years ago

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JackFrost
Super Member
2 years ago
Reply to  Brent

Love that commercial.

red floyd
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2 years ago
Reply to  JackFrost

For a while it was our HH rally song. I think we should bring it back.

JackFrost
Super Member
2 years ago
Reply to  red floyd

Now that you mention it I do vaguely remember that…,

Brent
Super Member
2 years ago

Left for our beach going away party at 4-0 fully expecting a loss. Was pleasantly surprised to see them comeback and get the W and back to .500 after the sun set out here.

Chap24
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2 years ago

Great team win! Everyone contributed….. except for Fletcher per usual…🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

Cowboy26
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2 years ago

First time Back to .500 since Sunday May 2nd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj4gqJzlIvc

GrandpaBaseball
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2 years ago

I missed a great game darn it. But you didn’t need me to encourage you on in the 9th knowing we would come back. Remember it was after the 7th so you had to believe. I called for a sweep and I still believe we will sweep the DB’s on the road.

FungoAle
Super Member
2 years ago

It was great GP, nice comeback, clutch hitting, solid relief and…no Sutton.

Twebur
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2 years ago

Even Redon contributed GPB…..Rendon!

Cowboy26
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2 years ago

We ALWAYS need your encouragement Grandpa.

Eric_in_Portland
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2 years ago

was thinking about Strickland and how, in the past, we would have held on to him even longer and pitched him, too!

FungoAle
Super Member
2 years ago

I’m still ecstatic and shocked about the progression of Stassi. He is a legitimate threat in the batters box. You could not have convinced me there was a sniff of a chance of this happening 2-years ago.

red floyd
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2 years ago
Reply to  FungoAle

I figured it out…

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eyespy
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2 years ago
Reply to  red floyd

That was banned a few seasons ago

FungoAle
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2 years ago
Reply to  red floyd

We should give some of that to Ward. 🙂

Eric_in_Portland
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2 years ago
Reply to  FungoAle

Maximus Stassius

Mia
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Mia
2 years ago

Can you even imagine how much Trout must be itching to get on the field?

Simba
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2 years ago
Reply to  Mia

but on the plus side for him … it is nice to see the team do well without him, knowing he doesn’t have to carry it.

angelslogic
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2 years ago

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Mia
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Mia
2 years ago
Reply to  angelslogic

Stay average, my friends.

red floyd
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2 years ago
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Cowboy26
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2 years ago
Reply to  red floyd

Did he last the entire episode?

Last edited 2 years ago by Cowboy26
red floyd
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2 years ago
Reply to  Cowboy26

Yep. Nobody died in that episode.

...Rev Halofan
Editor
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2 years ago

Well I totally mised this one, thanks for the writeup, .500 is good considering how deep in the shit we were, no slowing down now…

Eric_in_Portland
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2 years ago

already this year, versus last, 6 more wins, 2 fewer losses. 32-32 sounds like a decent club.

We *were* 19-27. After our 7-3 start we went 12-24 which is, by my computations, not good. And now, since then, 13-5. Maybe we’re schizzy. I’m still worried about Raisel, still miss Trout. Glad to see Rendon hit today. I thought today might be the day Upton passed him in batting average and he would have if Rendon hadn’t hit that homerun. I like that both Upton and Rendon have been upping their averages.

Basically I’m just happy that we’re even, after being down so far it looked like the season was over in May.

JackFrost
Super Member
2 years ago

And the Indians just came back late to beat the Mariners !!!

We now have a full game cushion between us and Seattle!

SScott
Super Member
2 years ago

What a great game. First time ever that my 17 year old daughter sat down and watched a complete game with me. This was the perfect game for it! She was shouting in the 9th inning.

Last edited 2 years ago by SScott
eyespy
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2 years ago
Reply to  SScott

Converted like a save

Twebur
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2 years ago

Trout? We ain’t got no Trout! We don’t need no Trout! I don’t have to show you any stinking Trout!

Hurry back, just kidding!

WallyChuckChili
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2 years ago
Reply to  Twebur

Trout who?

Fansince1971
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2 years ago

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This Mike Trout

WallyChuckChili
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2 years ago
Reply to  Fansince1971

That Guy Sucks!

We had a losing record with him.

red floyd
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2 years ago

Plus, he’s fat.