LA Angels Wednesday News Crash: Reid Detmers No Hit Rays

Deal alert. For anyone looking to see the Angels in Oakland this weekend the A’s just dropped this flash sale. Tickets as low as ~$8. I just got 5 plaza seats for the family on Friday for $90. Not behind the Angels dugout like someone else got, but affordable for a family.

https://www.mlb.com/athletics/tickets/specials/flash-sale?partnerId=zh-20220511-600707-OAK-1-A&qid&utm_id=zh-20220511-600707-OAK-1-A&bt_ee=jLkTKB1hab%2BpuPJbGgKssSt3p9RA1eMHtoXYpdDmRJju%2BFjbvTcfAfn%2B%2Ba3uak7z&bt_ts=1652310353894

Deal is good for 16 more hours. Let’s make it red!!

Do you like inter-league play? I enjoy playing the Dodgers and winning, the Padres and Giants are fun too. But always being an American League fan and enjoying the All-Star Game and World Series pitting the leagues against each other seems that a little goes along way. Why would MLB think that going away from the 123 years way of doing things should change? Next year Manfred is really going to screw thing up, trying to win your division will not be easy as you will see us play Houston twice. Once there and once here in a 3 game or 4 game series, 8 games tops. We will be playing almost half our games against the National League. WTF. How was attendance against Miami working? Playing the National League is boring, rather play AL teams like NYY, BOS, Tor, Cleve, W/S, TB, Sea. Oak, Tex, etc. I really do not like to use the word hate, but Rob Manfred is trying his hardest to change MLB, for the worst imho.

Soggy Joe is at it again.

https://twitter.com/MikeDiGiovanna/status/1524488228287393792

The stadium plan should prioritize the stadium enhancement or decision on a new park as paramount, ahead of all else. It’s the only thing fans care about and without that, all this other stuff is really a huge negative during the Trout/Ohtani era.

You’re going to immediately destroy the parking and traffic flow for new office and retail space? Have fun selling that load of garbage without some kind of carrot that we’re getting a new stadium.

I know it was only one game, but I want to reiterate that Chad Wallach is a keeper. He showed great poise throughout the game. On the defense side he demonstrated decent pitch framing, made a couple nice throws on runners who were attempting to steal, and overall called a great game (no hitter). Offensively, he hit the ball hard three times, which included a home run. What more could you ask for? He better not be sent back to AAA any time soon.

Lineups…no Trout or Ward.

https://www.baseballpress.com/teams/laa

I vote new stadium, if that is even an option?
The stadium is really good, but I think it would draw so many and be so awesome to get one of the best stadiums in the country. And, although Dodger Stadium doesn’t even compare right now it would be nice to increase the stadium inequality gap in So Cal.

Not sure if anybody else noticed but Detmers gave up the walk almost immediately after the “Perfect Game” icon came up in the score box at the top of the page in the 5th…JINX!!!

Not only did Detmers pitch a no-no, he did it as a rookie with only 2 strikeouts. Surprisingly, there are 24 (er, 25 now) rookies that have thrown a no hitter and 3 no hitters with 0 Ks.

all morning long I wondered about Walsh’s error, since I hadn’t seen it. I knew there was a delay in the scoring decision so maybe, I thought, maybe it was a hit. But now, having seen it I feel much better. The ball’s hit to Walsh, he drops it, tries to pick it up, drops it again. He probably would have gotten the guy if he hadn’t dropped it a second time. That’s the real error. So congrats, Reid!

I am on my second pitcher of Kool-Aid

I wonder how Madden, with his penchant for the unwritten rules, feels about last night?

The Angels padding an 8-0 lead in the bottom of the 8th with 2x, almost 3x HRs off an eephus pitch position player probably didn’t sit well with him, especially Rendon hitting from the left side. He did seem annoyed in the interview, but at least he kept his mouth shut.

Personally, I think if a team is going to try to save their bullpen by sending in a non-pitcher then the opposing team should do exactly what the Angels did.That’s two great, fun games in a row.

At work today, I had to write out the 12 Angels no-hitters from memory. Belinsky and Wright were before my time but they are both well known no-hitters in Angels’ history. Then, of course, you have Ryan’s four Angel no-hitters and from there it is fairly easy. The one that took me the longest to recall was the Langston-Witt no-hitter in 1990 (though I think that I watched that one on ESPN).

It’s been awhile since the Angels distracted me at work this much. We are less than 5 hours from today’s opening pitch! When are line ups going to be posted?

Totally neutral observation that is neither sunshine pumping or pooping in the punch bowl.

Angels in the #1 spot in the hitting balls rankings

https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=0&type=8&season=2022&month=0&season1=2022&ind=0&team=0,ts&rost=&age=&filter=&players=0

A short note on being excited…

A. We’re already 1/5th of the way through the season

B. If this is as good as it gets then we better be loving this moment

Yes, it’s still early in the season, but what gives me hope, aside from the obvious healthy Trout and Rendon was that the starting pitching has been a lot better this season. It’s only mid-May and we’ve already seen great starting pitching:

Patrick Sandoval’s first 3 games
Shohei’s 5-inning perfect game against the Trashcans
Shohei’s 11K game against Boston w/ 81% strikes thrown
Reid Detmers’s no-hitter last night
Michael Lorenzen’s almost complete game almost shutout.

When the Angels started getting hot, what was preventing me from being all in is the confidence in the starting pitching. Truly elite teams have top-tier starting pitching, have a couple of aces, and the rest of their rotation above average. I wasn’t sure the Angels have those after Ohtani, and sometimes Sandoval.

I’m still cautiosly optimistic but feeling more confident now in this team! Last night is something Reid can build on, and hopefully get to continue doing.

Wow, what a treat this series has been! Seriously, can’t help but just enjoy it!

This team right now is a like Santa Claus. It makes a big difference if you Believe or not.
Santa Claus is really just a feeling of the good in giving and for the young, the receiving.

That is the same with this season’s Angels team, believing. In both Santa and the Halos there is the good and the bad (losing, bad pitching, bad hitting and fielding). But through it all, you and I this season feel it, the excitement within ourselves that we just know that the player’s feel it too, and that is we will win.

Hey, we’ve ourselves almost been no hit a couple of times, we don’t win every night either. But a big reason for believing isn’t that GPB thinks we will win, it’s because the Player’s think we should win. Want proof? Bottom of the ninth, 2 outs, 2 strikes and we win with a walk off. In past season’s you would have to agree there was not a flicker in anyone’s eyes that we’d have a chance. How about comeback wins. How about a Bullpen that does not torch us? I saw the potential in the starting staff, and the lineup, and now you see it too.

If we get lucky and Christmas arrives early and make the Playoffs, do you think you will believe then? I know Ido and I will.

It would be rad if this greatest hits package from Dipoto, Eppler, and Minasian (D.E.M. G-Emz) coalesced into a chart-topping championship club. I’ve bitched about front-office moves over the past 10 years, but all three of those guys contributed to what we are now seeing.

Extra kudos to Minasian, though, for getting rid of the already-paid, self-satisfied, no-energy deadweight. He rightly understood that this team needed a younger, hungrier, more energetic attitude to get to the next level. It’s early still but things definitely feel different this year…

(O’Jays Love Train  🎧  🎸  🎷 ) que the music please,

People all over the world – Everybody
Join the ride,
Start of the Halos Win Train,
Join the ride,
Start of the Win Train, Fun Train,

Next stop we make will be Oakland,
Tell all our fans in Washington and Oregon too,
Don’t you know that it is time to get on board?
And let this Train keep on riding, rolling on through,

People all over these United States jump on,
The Win Train, come on, Jump on the Win Train – You need,
The Win Train – take it, come on,
People all over the Baseball seen,
Jump on the Win Train – Oh ride this Train,
Jump on the Halos Win Train, Win Train,

All you fans over in Florida,
Tell all the fans in Georgia and Texas too,
Please don’t miss this Train at the station,
’cause if you do I feel sorry, sorry for you,

People all over the Midwest and New York,
Jump on the Win Train,
Jump on the Angels Win Train,
Angels Win Train, come on the fun Train,

People who are our fans, don’t need no tickets,
Jump on board, Jump on the Win Train,
Angels Fun Train, don’t be late,
For the Angels Win Train, Fun Train.