It is February 27th, 1923 and the Los Angeles Angels lose their first game of the Spring Training season and- wait a second. It is 2023. Why is there no TV broadcast? Not even the Giants had one. Why are we somehow a century in the past?! I can’t even blame Arte on this, now what?
Well, for those who could listen to the radio and pretend it is the 1920’s and not the 2020’s, you could certainly hear a fast paced game going on. Maybe it was for the best that this one was unable to be seen by most fans as Barria blew it bombastically, giving up 4 runs in the 4th. Not that Estevez was any better, giving up 3 in a third of an inning.
At least it wasn’t all bad, since Rengifo seems to be picking up when he left off last season as he hit a 2 run bomb today in the 2nd. Too bad most can’t see it.
Screw that, this is the future, so what if there aren’t any broadcast options, people have their own cameras, we can outsource this to the average fan in the stands, someone had to be filming.
The Angels clawed back some scoring some more runs. Trey Cabbage and Gio Urshela drove in a run each in the 5th, and Aaron Whitefield getting an RBI groundout in the 6th. Giants even gifted a run with a passed ball in the 8th. Still, it was not enough to overcome the bad pitching.
Anyway, Angels lose, and Bally won’t show them on TV tomorrow either, just as we are running out of days that most of the good players have here at camp before they go to their WBC teams. Oh well.
7-4 for a Tiger’s team that lost 96 games. Taken #30 in the 2017 MLB Draft by the WS Champion Cubs then traded for away better hitter then Brandon Marsh (Nick Castellanos). Meanwhile we took the greatest OF prospect and mistake pitch slugger since Willie Mays…….just ask a HH myopic fan in 2017…………….
That’s a weird case of hind-sightism. He was traded for Nick Castellanos because NC was a free agent and not worth much.
Well, it’s pretty clear that this team is doomed. Moniak and Adell are total failures, Fletcher is a fluff pile, our pitching is worst evah and we need Joc Pederson.
Ehh, I’m glad they played decent and got their first loss. It’s not about winning spring training.
Dodgers Lux carted off with a bad looking leg injury today ….injuries suck, even when it happens to the Doyers.
He said he felt something pop in his knee. I felt the exact same thing when I tore my ACL.
His season is likely over before it begins.
The son of a friend of mine used a cadaver donor for his ACL surgery and it failed within 5 years, recently had to redo it. Supposedly 25-30% cadaver donor failure rate.
Knowing them, the Doyer probably harvest their ligaments and tendons from live donors,
Yeah, they used my own ligament(autograft), was told that the failure rate would be higher at my age with a donor ligament. I’m about 10 years out and I can’t even tell I ever had anything wrong. I regularly run 5 miles with no issues. Modern medicine rocks. Can’t even really see the incision sites anymore.
Had my ACL done 24 years ago using tendon going from knee cap down. Never had a problem again but that first year was tough. Got me out on the volleyball courts again a few years later where I played 15 years winning seven championships… DYNASTY! 😉  My crowning moment was coming back from down five points to being up four with one rotation. I got mad. It was against a team that had dropped me the previous season and I almost single handedly knocked them out in the playoffs. I secretly, always thought of it as my MLB career. Still waiting for the HoF of Rec volleyball vote. I’ve got 7 more years on the ballet but am trending up and probably am paying for my relationship with the media a little.
 😉  😉  😉 
I know I’m a canary in a coal mine, but is Estevez going to be Loup/Tepera 2023 edition?
It’s Feb 27. He’s thrown one inning.
He only threw 1/3 inning!
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Mistakes get made when you can’t watch the game 😔
But only faced 4 batters. he walked 2, got one to ground out and gave up a bloop single that lameday infers Fletch at shortstop should have caught.
Granted he was wild even throw one wild pitch but this doesn’t sound like a total meltdown.
The lion share of the runs were given up when he got pulled in favor of the Kid, Jose Soriano. Soriano then came in and gave up a 2 run double to the first batter he faced that were both the property of Charlie Sheen.
It’s not like they were squaring up our new closer. he just needs to work off the rust
Fangraphs has the Angels collective bullpen ranked last in baseball. Let that cowhide sink in a bit.
That was a little disturbing. I didn’t realize we were actually that bad. That isn’t really promising.
Fk. Let’s hope so right?
Is Loup/Tepera 2023 going to be Loup/Tepera 2021?
confidence level in Phillips, 3% so it’s above zero!
Sandoval looked sharp.
Walsh looks healthy but I want to see him adjust to breaking pitches towards the end of camp before I’m too excited.
Urshela looks to be a good depth piece who can contribute.
I’m going to pretend Barria and Esteves didn’t pitch today.
Hopefully those two were in that Spring Training mode where they go out there just to work on one specific pitch, and to practice it, regardless of results.
Barria didn’t do much to help himself to that 6th spot.
So Angels went 3 hours today. Dodgers went 3:15.
Pitching will come around, and at least Walsh is back healthy
Estevez future closer hopes took a shot today. Let’s see what tomorrow brings