The Angels celebrate Cinco De Mayo in Boston. A day after a game of actually scoring again, everyone wanted to keep this going. With no Trout in the lineup, it was to be an Ohtani day even more than usual for an Ohtani pitching day.
Yes, it was a Shohei Ohtani pitching day. But not just any Ohtani pitching day, but a masterful, dominant one. He went 7 innings, allowing 0 runs on 6 hits, striking out 11 while walking none.
Seriously, it was a dominant performance, the second best in terms of raw stuff in 14 years for the Angels.
Ohtani the batter went 2-4, with one of the longest singles ever. He had the only hit for the longest time for the Angels as well.
The bats were carried by Ohtani until the 7th, when Jared Walsh hit a home run around the pesky pole. Those were the only two hits through 7 innings.
Then the 8th happened. That’s when hits went crazy, as the Boston bullpen was horrible yet again.
Highlighted Recap
It was a scoreless game through 5, although the Angels came oh so close to scoring first. Ohtani hit a very long single, but the Angels were unable to score.
A run finally scored for either team in the 7th, when Jared Walsh poked one around the pesky pole for a 2 run blast.
Ohtani pitched 7 shutout innings, and then the bats really woke up, as the Boston bullpen was horrible yet again. The 8th saw an offensive explosion! Fletcher singled in a run.
Then Ohtani hit one off the Monster for another run!
Then Rendon had a groundout which resulted in another run.
Then Walsh blooped in 2 more.
9th came and the scoring wasn’t done, as Brandon Marsh got in on the fun with a home run of his own!
Mike Mayers had the 8th and 9th, shutting down the Red Sox and securing the 8-0 victory. The Angels win the series at Boston.
I’m afraid to admit that my Angels fan ptsd has me bracing for disappointment during just about every game. That’s it, I’m not letting the downer tendency to ruin what could very be an amazing season. I can’t put my finger on it, but this team just has something that I haven’t seen from them in a long time.
We have a great schedule coming up for the next couple of weeks. This is the time for optimism to SHINE!!
Winning is goooooood.
That comeback the day before surely brought some good vibes for Shohei and the bats.
Particularly good to see Marsh make good contact again. Hope he’s out of his mini-slump.
Keep rolling!
Hell Ya Thor.
https://twitter.com/Noahsyndergaard/status/1522351734743572480
Thor gets it. I don’t recall any other new team members over the years using “Light Up The Halo”
Another couple months like this past one and Thor gets…. an extension. 5/150?
I know we gotta pay Shohei, but he and Thor can be the big long term pitching costs (along with Raisel) and Sandoval, Canning and a bunch of the guys in HighA/AA can be our cheap slack down the rotation. Thor seems to like it here. Shit, so does Lorenzen.
Long term plans… See, THIS is where I’d go over the tax threshold for a while if I were Arte. If Thor/Loki both remain good most of the year, you know they are a good fit on the team AND you want to extend Shohei to basically keep your top 4 starters in place for a good run THEN hop on over that tax threshold for a little while. It’ll be expensive, but you can see where the money is going instead of hoping Dallas Keuchel isn’t all hat. Plus the fans will be happy because you’re paying guys they already like… this is, of course, if they continue to do well this year.
Yeah. Thor’s 95-96 will play as-is. Odds are though, he’ll only gain velocity. Dude can pitch.
I’m ready to give him an extension. He can pitch plus he’s the best we’ve had on Twitter since Mrs. Shoemaker!
Gotta mention that that goofy cowboy hat is an indicator of a very cohesive team. Players that don’t like each other don’t do silly stuff like that. Fortunately, I’m a huge fan of goofy baseball stuff.
Hopefully they wont have a breakout of Lice after they get through this round of IBS
Hopefully. I’d take the lice over IBS any day though. Unless I’m Marshy boy.
It’s definitely something that has been missing for a while. Playing with a fire and intensity that shows they care!
That shows they believe they can accomplish more this year
Not since the arrow incident?
Chase Silseth 6 IP 2 H 2 R 10 K 2 W ERA 1.73
3-2 Panda walk off win tonight
He’s in the Angels system owned by Arte Moreno and was drafted by an idiot who’s in over his head so those stats must be wrong.
Can we get a headshot with a note about when he was drafted please?
I’m happy to have seen a slump and happier still that this team responded so dramatically with force. A very special two games for us, now, next case.
Flying from Boston to John Wayne then head for home, then with Jet Lag and being pumped up with adrenalin only to crash and get some sleep, then back to play more Baseball has got to be difficult at best. This is a crazy schedule someone agreed to as it came out of a computer made on Mars.
Winning tomorrow night is going to be challenge for sure.
From June 16th-19th we’re in SEA for 5 games, with a doubleheader on the 18th.
wow I don’t think I ever remember a 5 game series scheduled during the regular season
Probably a makeup from the first week.
Schedule is looking pretty good for the next few weeks!
Baseball Reference has Trout currently at 1.8 WAR. That’d be close to 11 for the season if he maintained this.
since the season began he has passed Ozzie Smth and Robin Yount in career bWAR. He should pass Brooks Robinson, Joe DiMaggio, Curt Schilling and Pete Rose sometime in June
Impressive indeed. He passed Yount and will pass Brooks and Pete. Wow, I hope he does this at home in front of his fans.
I hope the Angels finally do something with him instead of wasting a once in a generation talent.
When you think about it, we arguably have not only the best player in baseball on our team, but the TWO best players. And still: no WS win. It’s as if the LEAST the Angels can do this year is win the WS, or it’s sorta like, ya know…embarrassing.
#NoPressure
Honestly, I’d be ecstatic if they just won a playoff series at this rate.
We will go further than the first series. I would like to see the American League Championship come down to us and any of the teams in the Eastern Division so we can tell the East Coast Bias Chumps to shove it. Would really like to stick to the “Damn Yankees”.
Hey, Grandpa, we are all MFY haters here, as is only just, true and proper. But this year the East Coast bias about the MFY is going to be excruciating. So just try not to let it get to ya.
My gawd I hate the MFY.
Sad thing is, we used to own them during the Golden Age (2002-2009)
Owned is putting it politely…..they were our bitch.
Yup exactly. Starting in 2002. Slapped them around good right on out of the playoffs.
I want to finish above .500. Anything playoffs related is just delicious gravy.
It’s been long enough, especially with expanded playoffs. If they don’t make the playoffs, the season is a failure.
“do something”, we are and we will.
Eh. I’m pretty sure we will never win a WS until people stop posting these comments. They’re 100% jinx.
I think your Jinx callouts are actually Jinxing us so stop it.
I can only see a jinx if it’s already there….
See? You did it again.
No no. I see it. Then I do it.
Again.
Only losers worry about a jinx.
A bit of trivia: it’s only Cinco de Mayo, but among all hitters who qualify, Taylor Ward leads the AL in batting right now. Trout is 10th in the AL. Ward and Trout are #1 and #2 in OPS in the AL.
And if feels like they’ve only just begun to hit.
Any time – ANY – that the Halo is lit vs the chowds is a wonderful day.
Two in a row is downright sexy.
I have about three grudges with Boston. The biggest goes way back to the 1980’s. Anytime we can beat them it’s a great day. But taking them apart at the seams in front of their home crowd is the most rewarding.
Amen.
our lads have a superior mindset this season. Maybe Herget went overboard but still, last year Walsh would have whiffed last night. Last year Slegers wouldn’t have been able to hold the lead today.
It must be a ton of fun for the players right now. Also, Thor…extension.
Bats go cold for 21 straight innings: no runs, after we almost blew a game in the 9th inning. Things were suddenly beginning to look bleak. Then they erupt for 18 runs in the last 14 innings to take the series.
Easy to get happy after that road trip. It’s easy for me, anyway.
Meanwhile, how are the Reds doing this year? (Checks their record) Gosh whattashame.
The Reds HAVE to be better than this. Can you imagine how unpleasant CtPG would be if we started out 3-22, as that’s the Reds’ record right now. That’s a .120 winning %. The Cleveland Spiders of 1899 went 20-134, for a .130 % over a year.
Say what you will about the incredibly lousy Reds team, but I’m betting they’re better than the Spiders.
And no, I’m not making up the “Spiders.” (Or, as their loyal fans called ’em, the Fightin’ ‘Nids, for arachnids. I did just make that part up.)
I semi-follow the Reds and Pirates. Both really are that bad.
I was really hoping the current Cleveland team would have chosen the resurrect the Spiders name.
Best damm TV PBP guy we’ve evuh had!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
🤑 😝 💪 💪 💪 🤘
Is his name Oliver Garko aka Olly Gark?
After all these years of hard work you’ve finally posted a picture of someone I recognize.
Happy for you, little buddy.
Awww. Leave it to Tooty to find the one bottle of piss in the sweet tea factory and drink it down in one big loud swallow.
Pivoting from rosters to PBP TV personality’s?
Why didn’t we hire Vin Scully?💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪
Arte is too cheap to invent a time machine
But he is so diabolical, we don’t know that he hasn’t.
Mike Trout is actually Babe Ruth stolen from his family as a baby. With modern medicine/ living practices he’s even better now!
He’s too cheap to have funded the research.
Hell, he wouldn’t even buy Hambone cocaine of Pujols steroids.
Cheap dick just doesn’t care about winning.
He was already taken…. 😄
That isn’t Bob Starr.
Ladies and gentlemen (and the rest), this is not your 2021 Angels.
Or your Angels of 2020, 2019, 2018….’17…’16,’15,’14,’13..’12,’11,’10.
can we be the 2014 Angels? ( without the early playoff exit of course)
I truly believe that in 2014, the baseball gods were against us. How else do you explain Nori Aoki?
Seeing game 1 and 2 of the 2014 ALDS live is only that much more painful. When Nori caught that ball I couldn’t believe it with my own eyes. That’s when I knew we were not going to win that series. Just unexplainable how much bad luck we had that series.
IKR? If the gods don’t put that into Aoki’s mitt, HK47 has a double and the game is completely different.
A great suprise with this series.
I dread where ever the Halos go to Fenway Park- & we all know have the Red Sox base act on their home land. But taking advenage of great pitching from Ohtahi-san today, & the bullpen which which kept the team in the game (while Boston’s imploded) last night.
A great road trip overall as they return home to host the Nationals. But let’s not get too cocky as Houston’s inching back up now. But at they’re chasing after us for a change!
The Mariners have come back down to earth. I like being 7 games above .500.
When Houston comes to the Big A the Angels should play The Nutcracker Suite for Altuve’s walk up music.
lol
Or short people by Randy Newman
Go your room and think about your left field defense!
https://twitter.com/kevinreynolds30/status/1522350320625455105?s=21&t=4TAH9XSeyJY08_Q1wWOsGA
I’ll help him with that last thought … DEFENSE
Don’t forget: “QUIT SWINGING AT BAD PITCHES”
“Jo-Jo, you know you can’t play until you tell us what you did wrong…”
*folds arms*
Dammit, Duderino! I was going to go there!!!!
Now, Jo, I want you to go to your room and think about what you’ve done!
Astros are starting a 4 game series with the Tigers tonight. Wins this weekend will be crucial to holding 1st.
But it’s baseball, maybe the Tigers will sweep them.
Which anime series are your angel GIFs from?
I use a few. This one is from Interspecies Reviewers.
We done used up our run quota again!!!
More often than not, games at Fenway are just pain. Wether it’s a May game or the playoffs, things usually go sideways for us.
Not this time! For once we got to watch other teams bullpens implode, us getting clutch hits, sure our boys K’d a ton again but they got the job done and then some. Soggy was more savant than idiot and well, even though it’s early and a long way to go, we’re doing well. Not gonna go overboard just yet but I can wear my beat up ol Halo hat w/pride. Fck the Sox!!!!
This GIF sure has had its rounds. It might end up being the most ironic-to-unironic meme of all time once we’re done with it.
So many good times giggling at this gif. Here’s hoping their huge overreach becomes less and less of an overreach as the years go by.
Going from a ceiling of being a utility infielder to a guy who just might be an exciting every day player is mind blowing.
But I will always laugh at that overreaction.
JeDi was obviously told by a time traveler that Taylor Ward was going to be amazing.
Too bad Dr Who didn’t make that same trip back to warn JeDi about Roberto Baldoquin.
True dat. Vlad Jr was just hanging around under the hats at the Big A literally begging them to sign him and we didn’t. Additionally, I bet we’d have signed Andres Gimenez as well if only we’d not been saddled with Baldo and the Oligarch. Hell, why not throw in Christian Pache for $6,000 too……
The Iconic ironic-to-unironic…..which sorta makes it ironic again?
Ward MVP!
Free Jerry
Unironically, it does.
btw, does anbody know whose drafting they were celebrating here in this pick ?
Some nobody
Suckers!
Here’s the full version gif:
I could watch this forever.
that “rolodex” effect is mesmerizing.
I usually get fixated on guy-on-cellphone.