Scoreless Angels get thumped in familiar fashion, lose 4-0 to Twins

While thousands of fans came out to Angel Stadium for a free backpack and a nice night of baseball, the Angels delivered one and a half of those things.

Starter Patrick Sandoval’s night was productive in a confusing way, but he got the job nonetheless. Sandoval went five innings and limited the damage to a 2-run shot in the Gilberto Celestino (say that five times fast), despite dancing around trouble the entire night. On the opposite half of the bump, Twins starter Tyler Mahle turned in an impressive night, tossing six scoreless and allowing five runners to reach base. The Angels only mustered four hits all night: two each from David Fletcher and Luis Rengifo, seemingly the lone offensive bright spots these days.

On another bright side, Jo Adell flashed an impressive throw home to nail a Twins baserunner trying to motor on home in the third.

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Chap24
Trusted Member
2 years ago

Super impressed with our two youngsters back to back games with their B stuff and they grinded to give the team a shot.

frosse
Member
2 years ago

Wow, Fletcher and Rengifo 4 for 7. Everyone else 0 for 23, 3BB, 10Ks. Yuck.

steelgolf
Legend
2 years ago

Damn, will 2016 ever end?

Senator_John_Blutarsky
Legend

After the Oakland anomalies, it’s comforting to be back to the normal routine

GrandpaBaseball
Legend
2 years ago

Good, now can we come to agreement that this Garbage Barge needs to sink and be rebuilt, buying our way is not working because the commitment to do so ends at a capped budget and this does not work. So, it is time to rebuild and from the inside out. It is hard to just keep getting worse and going backwards with no real plan to improve the team by Arte. So let’s just face the facts, we need to rebuild, does not matter if you argue that we don’t have the right personnel to rebuild because you have to recognize that rebuilding is the new plan of attack.

Cowboy26
Legend
2 years ago

Sorry, guys, but I’m still buying the stench because I dont subscribe to a complete teardown. Theres no guarantee that it will work and is not necessary provided our owner finally spends outside of his norm as he did in 2004. The Doyers, one, if not the best team in baseball have never done a teardown.In fact lets look at their season results under the Kasten/Magic/Friedman regime:

2015 92-70 Lost in NLDS
2016 91-71 Lost in NLCS
2017 104-58 Lost in World Series
2018 92-71 Lost in World Series
2019 106-56 Lost in NLCS
2020 43-17 Won Texas COVID Tourney
2021 106-56 Lost in NLCS

They never did a tear down but keeping going and going even as they keep choking on their own fumes.

But boy Gpa, who pooped in your wheaties? it sounds like you are living life this season in extremes: Excessively optimistic for the first half and then projecting death and destruction and the end of days with next.

I miss the old GPB

Twebur
Legend
2 years ago
Reply to  Cowboy26

GPB and his Stages of Grief.
Denial Anger Bargaining Depression Acceptance

The Stages of Grief Feel Different to Everyone

the grieving process is not linear. You may feel each stage with a different level of intensity, or feel many of these emotions at once, in a different order, or cycle through stages multiple times.

Last edited 2 years ago by Twebur
JackFrost
Super Member
2 years ago
Reply to  Twebur

People get this wrong alot; the Stages of Grief as outlined by Kubler-Ross apply to death and dying. It is not meant to be universally applicable to all kinds of grieving situations.

WallyChuckChili
Legend
2 years ago
Reply to  JackFrost

I don’t know, sounds pretty much like Angels TrAdition to me.

Spring Training = Happy
Start of season = Happy
Start falling in the standing = Denial
Continue losing = Anger
Small win streak = we start Bargaining
Still losing = Depression
Acceptance, still pic of Tank on thread

Fansince1971
Legend
2 years ago
Reply to  Cowboy26

You cannot compare the Angels and Dodgers. The Dodgers have a steady stream of young talent they have drafted and developed You don’t need to do a tear down if you have that.

tommyshalo
Trusted Member
2 years ago

Tanking road, here we go!
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Last edited 2 years ago by tommyshalo
James
Trusted Member
2 years ago

It’s a strange feeling to be down early and thinking that the game is probably over at that point. With so many innings and at bats to go there is this void. This is what it is like for me watching the team this year. Hopefully next year will be different 🤷‍♂️

Eric_in_Portland
Legend
2 years ago

we might not see the shufflebot again this year.

Fansince1971
Legend
2 years ago

I’m holding out hope he will be back at least once more

...Rev Halofan
Editor
Trusted Member
2 years ago

When you miss a game, as I did tonight, ask yourself… Did the game miss me?

DowningDude
Legend
2 years ago

Oh no!!! We still suck!

GrandpaBaseball
Legend
2 years ago
Reply to  DowningDude

we’ve sucked for twenty seasons.