Angels 9 Rangers 6
For the second night in a row, the Angels starting pitcher didn’t make it out of the 4th inning. This time it was Reid Detmers who, like Ohtani, had a fantastic first inning and struck out the side.
Ohtani first pitch home run
Adell sent a ball 447 feet in the 2nd inning
Rangers scored in the bottom of the 2nd, but the wheels really fell off in the 4th inning with the Rangers putting up a 5 spot. Any thing else interesting happen that inning? JUST THAT JOE MADDON WALKED COREY SEAGER WITH THE BASES LOADED. Yes, Mike Trout – EVERYONE else was confused too.
The Angels rallied in the 5th with a home run by catcher Kurt Suzuki, and Ohtani’s 2nd smash of the night.
Mike Trout doubled, Jared Walsh hit him in and the Angles had knotted up the game at 6. Brandon Marsh put the Angels on top 7-6 with a sac fly. Amazing turn around in this game from just a bit earlier.
The Angels offense did its thing with 2 more runs in the 7th courtesy of a Jared Walsh 2 run bomb. In fact, 8 of the 9 runs in this game came from the long ball.
Shohei Ohtani hit the ball well tonight and he hit it hard:
Celebrate the win, even if it was an odd one!
Boy, this HP umpire has been very generous to Hearn so far…
Maybe he took he under ?
MLB managers don’t matter
STFU baseball charlatans, see Moneyball again and the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s character. No MLB manager should be making more than $2M a yr.
Our’s is making 2X that ( a lot of good little people, you know like scouts, cross checkers, coaches, trainers, GRAPHIC DESIGNERS FOR HIS SIGNAGE FIRM…)
to the OLIGARCH……Free Joe and hire Jayce for 2023!!!
I have always been a Maddon supporter, until now. The look on Mike Trout’s face tells you everything you need to know. Giving away a run makes zero sense.
Hope Perry had some kind of polite conversation about it so it never happens again.
This might help next week.
https://twitter.com/Chandler_Rome/status/1515089864064086016?s=20&t=4Del_uiMMKNOnXnyjt3f8Q
Let’s hope he stays there long enough that we’ll miss him in Houston…
Play there on Monday.
Aren’t some players out of the protocol in 48 hrs time ?
Not sure….thought it was longer than that. Lots of unknowns.
Angels PR: The Angels have made the following transactions:
•Reinstated OF Taylor Ward from injured list
•Following last night’s game, INF Jose Rojas was optioned to Triple-A Salt Lake
Ward is back
https://twitter.com/angels/status/1515419955792998401?s=21&t=w_4tqDeP1Gi1vbtR1KjeJA
Your predictions for tonight?
I’ve retired from the predictions business on a high note.
This is hilarious
https://reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/u4psxp/mike_trout_witnessing_the_historic_bases_loaded/
I’m a Maddon fan. I think he’s a great manager. His credentials are unquestionable. I believe in him.
That move was ridiculous and his lame excuse after the game even worse. Because the offense bailed him out doesn’t excuse it.
Who the heck is Corey-freaking-Seager that we can’t pitch to him??!
Not cool, Joe. Not cool.
Now go make the playoffs and I’ll forget all about this little incident 😄.
Good morning to all on this beautiful Saturday morning. Dallas says at the end of this upcoming week that we up here at 7250 feet will be looking forward to snow! By then the Halos will be in first place all by themselves by a couple of games.
Today in Globe Stadium we will have an easy win, kind of boring win really, so bet the farm for the win and a parlay to Showtime to hit for the cycle.
Oh, this is for Gitch and useless Bitch and complaint. We need our broadcast teams in Arlington doing the game and staying at Motel 6.
Here’s how I see it.
In the ENTIRE history of baseball, intentionally walking a batter with the bases loaded has only happened three times. It is BY FAR the rarest thing in the game.
And Maddon has now done it twice. He’s got 2 of 3 in the history of the game.
That’s mad scientist shit right there and not in a good way. Can you imagine this site if the Angels had lost by a run?!
Guess what? They didn’t lose by a run.
It’s true – but that gambling.
Let me guess about how this site would have been, running around with their hair on fire 😡
You’re right. Looking at that decision today, looks worse than it did last night. What a buffoon, willingly letting the opposition tie the game and ultimately took the lead. Like you said, in the history of the game.
Thrilled with the win. No idea how anyone in this org can have confidence in Maddon though.
Not hard to imagine the majority of the locker room turning on him if that game got out of hand in the other direction. My bet is he either is told to dial it back or we may be a bad losing streak away from Montgomery becoming the manager at some point mid-season.
I have found that success dulls critique. He has done it twice, but it worked both times. If it hadn’t worked, sure. But now that it has, he has a longer leash than before – and can continue to ‘stir up the group’ as much as he likes.
He has always had a good reputation in the clubhouse, seeming to know what the players need. Not strictly an analytics guy. fwiw
Wait, I don’t think it worked last night, the Rangers took the lead. Angel batters, bailed his ass out.
Warren didn’t give up a grand slam. The smaller emotional effect of a few plays rather than one big play may have been a factor. Maybe it allowed the bullpen to relax some, maybe it encouraged the team to come back, maybe it put the pressure on the offense (who had been slow to start).
How do you define if it worked? In the same inning? the next AB? Or the end of the game?
(Doesn’t it all depend on Maddon’s goal with the move?).
It didn’t work out though? They gave up 5 runs in the inning, 1 of them was literally intentional.
Had the Angels not gotten hot against a bad team’s bullpen game, we are having serious conversations about firing Maddon.
Lol. “…gotten hot against a bad team’s bullpen…” A big part of Maddon’s decision had to do with who he was facing, especially the part about the Rangers bullpen.
We are in 2nd Place .
0.5 games back.
Thor! Bring the Hammer!
It is quite possible that a super computer somewhere ran 10 billion simulations and the analysis shows that in these specific cases the odds favored walking in the runner. That would be the cutting edge analytics that the Angels are known for after all… /s
If it equals a Win, it must be right!
Yeah that Super Computer is Cartman in a box and is named Awesome-O.
Yeah, we won! Soooo…. what are we all finding to be unhappy about? I for one just don’t like Loup’s face. He looks Dutch. I think that name is Dutch too. F**kn Dutch.
Small hands and smell like cabbage.
Lettuce back off this line of critique
Only two things I hate. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures….and the Dutch.
John Dowie… that guy really knew how to hate those Dutch
“So I drove home black out drunk. I made it into bed without killing anyone that I know of. Why is everyone so upset?”
People like the win, they’re less enthused about how poorly Maddon’s teams are playing defense in Year 3 and how obvious it is Maddon would blow a playoff game solely by himself with the way he thinks.
Shame on you for driving “black out drunk.” At the risk of sounding prudish I have to say that was incredibly irresponsible to drive in that condition. Especially being part of an online community where the tragedy of Nick Adenhart exists and the knowledge of Josh Hamilton and Tyler Skaggs are part of our history, reporting this here is like throwing fresh meat to a cage full of tigers.
Howie3.0 didn’t drive black out drunk. He was using it as an example.
Ah, yes, now that I re-read it I can see that. I wrote that response early this morning and clearly was not fully awake yet.
All good! I actually interpreted it like you were poking fun at me for taking grich’s fairly obvious troll at face value (which is actually what I did)
Showtime rocked the bat tonight. Crazy game, but not as nuts as the game against Miami in the “Wade” game.
I too thought that Maddon had lost his mind walking Seager. We Won, We Won. But joe is a lucky duck, maybe so, but he is also a quack.
Listened to the whole game on the radio. Terry and Langs were in the Angels Stadium “Studio” and doing the game remote and it was weird in that they had a difficult time staying focused especially with who was at bat. The TV and Radio teams need to travel with the team.
This is so much bull shit. Arte and the rest of his owner buddies are bunch a cheap bastards hiding behind an endemic.
Yes, like so many business owners Arte used the pandemic as a way to pay his employees less and give his customers less.
I’m curious, and I have no idea, how many MLB teams have their radio and TV broadcast teams traveling with the team now? Does anyone know? I mean, it doesn’t really matter. Arte rich. Things are things. CtPG is sad. CtPG gets mad when sad. But I just realized I have no idea if the Yankees and Sux and what not have their guys out on the road or not. And press too. Are the reporters who cover the teams traveling?
I don’t even know if locker rooms are open or not…
It’s cause I don’t care. It doesn’t really matter to me. But now I’m curious.
I don’t really care what the other teams do in regard to their broadcast teams really, but I still think it is better all round for the fans to tune into broadcasts that are the best that they can be. Right now, the two teams or 3 with Matty V. really could be better.
Sooo…. “I don’t know. I’m not going to find out. Here, I’ll repeat the same complaint for the 20th time and see if that helps…”
Did you find out? Maybe if you could repeat that complaint for the 21st time, you may get a clue just yet who is at fault.
Huh? Mota?
Yes most reporters are traveling with the team again .
and allowed clubhouse access.
Yeah. I thought so since NBA guys have been traveling with the teams for a while.
I looked real fast. I found the Astros have their radio guys on the road with TV guys at home, Royals have all guys out as do the Dodgers. The Red Sox and Cardinals will soon have all their guys on the road. The Orioles and Nationals have their guys in studio. The Yankees and Mets either have their guys out or soon will. The Blue Jays look like they have a guy broadcasting from Florida. The Pirates…. shit man, 2021 was the first year ALL 162 games were even on TV. I can’t find anything about right now. The Mariners are doing some travel and some studio…. it looks like the Phillies are too, maybe? A bunch of other teams I couldn’t find anything.
There’s a crazy amount of teams with wild mixes of guys, like 4 or 5 different guys switching off, or radio and TV teams switching back and forth.
So that’s what I could Google in 15 minutes. If the Angels are sticking to broadcasts from studio all season though I bet we may be the last hold out by years end. So let six months of futile bitching the same bitch begin…
All but 4 teams. Angels and Dodgers are 2 of the teams that are not traveling with the team on the road
Underrated post by Jack here.
Not sure which was worse. The delayed game calling or bad umpiring again.
2022 is going to be a wild ride