Good morning Angels fans! How are you today? That bad huh? Have some links.
Angels News
Angels vs the Dodgers in Los Angeles round two is tonight. After round 1 ended in an Angels loss, this game is crucial.
Tomorrow, the Angels face the Mariners for the first time this season. Wait, that can’t be right. How did that happen? Who makes these schedules, why did it take until mid June to face the Mariners?!
Oh great, Bowtie at the Athletic discusses what the Angels should do with Ohtani. If you can’t read it, basically if the Angels miss the playoffs this year, Ohtani will leave one way or another.
Taylor Ward is back! Here is a SI article on his journey to a starter.
Around Baseball
Fox Sports showed the wrong first pitch of Dodgers at Giants and thought no one would notice. Like, why? If they just showed no first pitch it would be way less obvious.
Pitch clock down in the minors is doing its job. Nearly 25 minute game time decrease. This might mean it will be implemented next year. 1982 was the last time the average game time was 2:35.
Strasburg is back! Oh wait, nevermind, back to IL for you.
Ryu is out for the season with an arm injury. Injuries are really piling up for pitchers this year.
Speaking of injuries, Tatis Jr. is still not healthy enough to even swing a bat. That giant contract of his is a relief for him with how much time he has missed in his career already.
There was a tornado warning in Chicago. Yu Darvish didn’t care though.
A couple of Athletic paywall articles to check out if you have it. Assault is ignored in the MiLB. Liam Hendricks very much cares about LGBT. Oh, right, he is ALSO injured.
Anything I missed? Post below for upvotes.