Three years ago tonight the Angels put on one of the most amazing experiences in baseball history, the Tyler Skaggs no hitter.
Tonight Noah “Trade Chip” Syndergaard was on the bump and was down 2-0 before most fans had found their seats.
The Angels got one of those runs back on a Jared Walsh ground out in the bottom of the first. Walsh looked to get overly aggressive and swing himself out of a walk. On the month, Walsh is hitting a very Wade-esque .111/.149/.111.
Thor wasn’t his best, going 4 innings and giving up 3 runs, all earned. 4 walks hurt him and a 2 out walk in the third extended the inning and led to that third run.
Jose Marte came in with 2 on and no out in the 5th and went through the heart of the Astros order without giving up a hit or allowing a run to score.
That’s a bright spot. Also Stefanic worked a lead off walk in the first and scored that run. Brandon Marsh got a nice hit and made several nice plays in the field.
We’re playing to establish the 2023 roster and right now those three are looking promising.
For the bad news, Mike Trout left the game with back spasms in the fifth inning. Cue the Angels medical staff saying “day to day.”
Andrew Wantz wasn’t sharp. He gave up a couple hits then with two outs gave up a single to Jose “Chest Tattoo” Altuve that got by Monte Harrison to make it 5-1 in the 6th.
Austin Warren returned to the Big A and looked alright. Three ground ball outs and a one out double to Alex “Edelman” Bregman. 5-1 at the stretch.
Finally the Astros pulled Luis Garcia and gave tte Angels a chance. Reliever Maton made a defensive miscue, face up a run, and left with the bases loaded and only one out thanks to more defensive miscues by the Astros.
Stefanic made an out then Thor 2 roped a 2 run, 2 out double to make it 5-4.
Marsh hustled to third on the play. Great base running that paid off when the very next pitch went to the backstop. All tied at 5 with Ohtani at the plate.
A walk to Ohtani led to a fly out by Ward. Inning over, but momentum all with the Angels who had scored 5 runs on only 2 hits to this point.
Jose Quijada pitched a dominant top of the 8th. When he’s on, he’s on. Two K’s and a fly out to keep it tied.
No runs by the Angels in the bottom of the 8th led to possible trade chip Raisel Iglesias pitching the 9th and the top of the Astros order.
Altuve got the benefit of the call on a check swing then walked on an identical pitch Ohtani took for a called strike three. Both Iglesias and Nevin were pissed.
Diaz punched a two strike single to center, Altuve went to third, and the rerun of Friday in Baltimore was on.
Kyle Tucker roped a double to right. 6-5 Astros. An intentional walk loaded the bases But Baltimore 2.0 it was not as Iglesias escaped the inning without further damage. The damage, however, was done.
Houston has a real closer and Ryan Presley shit the door to end it 6-5.
The title of this article is completely brilliant!
The wit of our writers as of late 👌🏼👌🏼( could you imagine having to watch this and do a write up?!)
we should hurry and trade now before all we got is trout and ohtani get DFAed. BTW Perry vs Eppler & Dipo perry<<<<EPP & DIPO
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It’s never fun to have doors shit on you 😢
Ha ha. Epic auto fill.
Hurr durr fire Soth, we nurrd durr Joe Maddon, nerr, fire Reagins, naw fire Jedi, nerr hurr derr fur fer Eppler, nar weight…. needer Nevin grit pump… thatcha duddle hump! Nurr, hurr durr culture is durr vulture! Perry is so very no POBO!
Has it occurred to anyone that maybe, after all our bitching about just about every aspect of every man who doesn’t touch a fucking baseball on this team for the past decade MAYBE IT’S THESE NO DICK DUMBSHIT SPECIAL SCHOOL PLAYERS THAT KEEP SUCKING UP BUCKETS OF SHIT?
We all have our lame little yellow turds of wisdom… “durr fish rots from durr head” or what ever, but you know what? these guys, and the guys before them, generally suck shit. And I’m not talking about the poor bench scraps who do their best and their best isn’t good enough, and I’ll let guys who get injured and it ruins them slide too, but what the f***? Does anybody who puts on that gay ass red uniform actually want to remain an MLB player at all? Much worse teams than we have had even the last few years have done much better…. and no, it’s not because of some magic cultural pixie dust. Bagger Vance wasn’t a real person and Will Smith is a sad cuck.
It’s OK to stop searching for someone to blame other than the players guys. None of them give a shit about you and they will certainly never be your friends. There are plenty of shit owners out there with good teams. There are plenty of overrated GMs and, be still my heart, POBOs who have players that DO THEIR F***ING JOBS because they want to keep playing and they like to win. But not these sad sacks.
If the general whiny pigeon chested DOA spirit of CtPG could put on uniforms it would be this pile of eunuchs in cleats. If any group of “MLB” players ever embodied countless hours of impotently decrying the one thing no one can control, the owner, it would be these prosthetic dog testes we call a roster constantly failing to do the one thing they were good at at some point…. baseball. F*** Ohtani, f*** Trout, f*** Walsh, f*** Thor, f*** Iggy, f*** the whole boat. Trade everyone and play a bunch of starving Africans, it’s what this whole scene deserves. F*** our hats and uniforms, f*** the Big A, f*** Anaheim. Can’t fire the owner, and continuity is smart so I guess let Perry keep working, but I’d be perfectly happy if there wasn’t a single familiar face in Tempe this March and they were all wearing black uniforms.
The players can suck my dick. All of them.
I finally have learned to understand the Gitch…..
Scrolled down to suck something and googled a picture of pretty flowers instead
Google translate: please help
You missed the greatest cliche: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.”
Your constant, repetitive anti dumb user rants can likely be classified as insanity as well.
We’re all crazy, man. A bunch of crazy losers. Embrace it.
Embrace the suck!! These made me chuckle
It’s not healthy to repress all these emotions. You must move with the flow. Don’t fight the current. Resist nothing. Let life carry you. Don’t try to carry it. Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna,
Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare.
What is that smell coming from Arte’s ballpark?
Wow! You can smell cheap. But the whole stadium?
all the MB’s, BMW’s, LR’s. Volvo SUV’s, warming up to quick stop at Cost Plus World Market.
A lot of tough grit there!!
Ooooh that smell,
Can’t you smell that smell,
Ooooh that smell,
The smell of death surrounds you
Can anyone recall a team playing as badly as we have the past 45 games or so? I know it’s happened, but I swear I cannot recall such a terrible stretch by anyone.
https://www.mlb.com/news/worst-streaks-in-baseball-history-c295390034
2022 Angels sure to add to this list, maybe a few times over!
The second half of Brad Ausmus’s lone managerial season was pretty painful. This feels worse as it is current but grade A dumpster fire in 2019
You are right, that was bad. Just feels awful right now because we definitely aren’t supposed to be this bad. I didn’t expect World Series or anything, but I did expect a competitive team of which we clearly are not.
I agree with this. I can’t believe we not only didn’t improve over last year, we’re significantly worse. It’s maddening
For me the worst part of all of this is because of this massive mess created by just awful contracts the only way to really fix it is to start over. Personally, the lack of development is the biggest disappointment. I miss the days of the minor league talent being stacked in our organization. I hope we can get back to that eventually.
I thought this was a cool article:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/shohei-ohtani-mlb-all-star/?appsrc=sc&RuleNumber=9
Angels come fighting back and the Ump shows us it’s his game.
Damn, a lot of stuff happened after I gave up and turned the radio off…but still buttercup. :/
This team just doesn’t know how to win. No matter if they are up or tied, you just know that they are going find a way to lose.
If it wasn’t Iggy……it’s the next guy….or the next……we ain’t winning a game like that.
You know it. I know it. The American people know it.
Man, watching the team makes me feel like all the players have no faith/trust in the other guys, so they end up making poor decisions and mistakes. It looks like our pitchers our trying to be perfect and end up making too many mistakes, and our hitters are trying to tie up every game with one swing and miss. Good example: Walsh getting too aggressive today trying to clear the bases with one swing. How do you fix a team with a culture like that?
Lack of true fundamental baseball strategy. Everyone is frustrated and guessing or looks to be playing only for themselves. They aren’t having fun.
It stems from the top. Lack of baseball leadership and winning mentality. If they won’t raise the so called salary cap tax threshold to fix holes and win, they need to right the ship from the management and ops level and have a full tear down and start over. They need to bring in leader that knows baseball, team construction and a team staff that can rally a team together putting money and ego aside and just win. Obviously, what has been going on the last decade isn’t working.
Maybe have a team movie night and watch Major League and take notes. Lol.
Great post, I agree
Team building 101
Mike Trout back spasms.
Let’s have him participate in the HR derby!
Man this is a brutal time to be an Angels fan. We need to burn a bunch of sage everywhere around that stadium.
What’s laughable is the “why can’t Mike Trout participate in the HR Derby?” The guy is gonna break – someone suggested to wrap him up in bubble wrap and I think that’s great advice.
God I can’t believe I am saying this, but I’d rather fire the shit out of the whole staff and then put Bobby Valentine as manager. This whole coaching staff has no respect of anybody. Our batters have no respect on their eye from the umpires around the whole league because they chase everything. Our pitchers don’t pound the strike zone so they don’t get borderline pitches. Nevin is trash just watching eating seeds. Perry is not willing to call out umpires in the press. Nothing. What a damn joke. I am going to explode. At least Valentine would go down screaming and do something to this clubhouse. Oh and F***** Iglesias and your stupid celebration. Garbage closer.
Good thing Perry got Iggy locked in for the next 3 years.
I missed it, but did Iggy point towards the ground (satan) when he blew that game in Baltimore?
Oh? Jeebus or Gawd is only with you when good things happen? Idiotic.
Maybe in the ASG when Gramps GIDP he will do that. Would be worth the ticket!