Angels 3, Astros 2
It wasn’t pretty, but the job got done.
Thursday night, pitching walked eleven hitters overall, while there were only ten hits total, leading to some very ugly baseball.
Jack Mayfield delivered the winning blow:
Raisel Iglesias gave up a solo home run to Jason Castro in the ninth, but he got the final three outs. The Angels are still undefeated when leading after eight innings. Clearly, the formula to winning games is to have a late lead. Who knew!
Nice to see a win for my last trip to the stadium this season. My kid was fired up and loud the entire game. I’m guessing he won’t have much of a voice today. 😆
The person sitting next to you was not thrilled with your level of noise when Captain Jack hit his bases-clearing double…..
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My brother in law doctored the photo with an arrow pointing at her that said Karen. 😅
Eh, I don’t think so … I THINK she is actually an Angels fan, but had Lance McCullers Jr on her fantasy team.
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Hey … replay was just on TV … she was clapping! My bad for snipping the image at that instant. 😛
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*2-run double
Fun win against the cheaters. That’s all I got.
Amazing how bad the home plate ump missed Iggy’s last pitch of game.
Blame Stass-hole. He stood up or something as I recall.
And this game shows the slim margin between the A’s and us. We had a pile of pitchers all of which actually did their job today. The meh hitting was just enough. This will get even easier when we actually have guys like Trout.
I’m almost at the point where I say pay that Cobb his money.
Last time I spent $3 on a ticket to Angels Stadium was Opening Day 1987.
Light That Three Dollar Baby Up!
Nice seeing you and your lovely bride last night.
Nice win!
I’ve asked for nothing from the Baseball Gods this year.
Please let us beat the Mariners. Let us end their season. If possible, in a gut wrenching spectacular fashion that they will forever remember and hate us for.
Thanks.
Amen.
Yes, revenge best served cold for 1995!
All I need is an image of Jerry DiPoto laying at home plate with Keon Wong circling the bases on a bunt. That would surely cure that pain
What could have been. If Cobb had been healthy….if Bundy were 2020 Bundy…
9 games left, 6 against Seattle. We might as well win them all.
We made those 4-hits count tonight. Cobber is deserving of a high-five.
Yay!
Nice win Angels and hopefully next year the tables will turn on those cheaters that are the Astros
To have a late lead and someone who can protect it. This is the 18 million dollar question going into this offseason.
indeed! we will see what happens
I am hoping it is a couple years of a 15M dollar question 🙂
Would you go 3/45? because someone will. And if we don’t will we blame Arte for being cheap next August? I say just pay the man, but it’s not my money. Still, if I’m Arte, I’ve seen what cost cutting closers look like the last few years, and I’ve seen Raisel…
I currently own my first car with leather seats. I don’t want a car with cloth seats ever again.
I would. I would pay Cobb something too (though I don’t know that it is 15M moving forward, at age 33). 3/30? Would he take that?
We have no replacement for Iglesias on the farm (at least not yet).
We need two starting pitchers to go along with Ohtani, Sandoval, Suarez, and Canning/Barria (with Detmers, Naughton, Junk, etc at AAA for spot starts or injury replacements).
Cobb could be one of them – if we pair him with a top-tier pitcher (Scherzer (for the aging but still clearly capable short-term sign), or Stroman (for someone more long-term) or finagle a trade for someone (Means, Marquez).
Not my money – but can the team do without a closer or starting pitching?
Not sure how up to date this list is…..I think we can sign him for slightly less and maybe for only 2 years? 2/27?
https://www.spotrac.com/mlb/rankings/salary/closer/
without considering the alternative of what im giving up in terms of other position improvement AND knowing the Angels aren’t going to sink serious FA in two frontline starters I’d try to sign both Iglesias and Cobb. Better the devil you know. Maybe its time to start thinking like the NBA and treating some of these deals as trade assets especially Iglesias. Maybe by third year we have developed a legit in house late inning option and you just trade Iglesias prior to that final year. I have more confidence in Iglesias value at end of his contract than Cobb in year 3. But you nailed it – for FA pitchers I think we fail a lot by an unwillingness to match the market. Lol, position players I sometimes think we are bidding against ourselves with the absurd lengths.