It is Good Friday, a holy day whereas the Angels play their Home Opener. This was certainly on purpose and not because of Oakland Opening Day favoritism. With Vlad Sr, the MLB HOF player with an Angels’ hat on his Plaque throwing the first pitch as the Angels face his son’s team, it was certainly a game of Biblical proportions.
Patrick Sandoval pitched the Home Opener, truly becoming the number 2 of the pitching staff and he took the opportunity with great honor. He pitched 6 innings, giving up just 1 run on 6 hits, striking out 2 and walking 1. It wasn’t his best, but he limited the damage vs a strong lineup. No decision for him, however, as the bullpen blew it.
The Angels just couldn’t score enough, managing only 3 runs on 3 hits. You cannot expect to win these games, especially against a great offensive team.
Highlighted Recap
The Angels struck first when Mike Trout decided he wanted another truck.
A missed GIDP opportunity in the 4th gives the Blue Jays a run to make it 2-1 Angels.
It was almost more, but the Blue Jays run themselves into the 3rd out.
Since the game speed is very 70’s, the Angels decided to play like it too with a safety squeeze bunt!
It was a crazy game in infield, and Lamb saved a strong but wild throw by Gio.
Alas, the bullpen couldn’t hold the lead for Sandy, as it was now Jimmy Herget’s time to blow it.
Angels lose, and fall to 4-3 on the year.
Upcoming
Angels have an Ohtani bobblehead tomorrow, and look to rebound after a frustrating one today. Good Friday everyone.
It is looking like no preview for tonight’s game, so I will say something here :
Rendon is back tonight. It is becoming very clear that Trout and Ohtani are being forced to carry a heavy offensive load due to the slumping bats through the middle and back end of the order… Really it is only O’Hoppe (who is not starting tonight) who is producing at all in the bottom 2/3 of the batting order.
The Angels can’t survive this way. My prediction is tonight they will need at least 2 hits and 2 rbi’s (and it might take more than that )from the 4-6 hitters or they won’t win this game… That means Rendon, Renfroe and Lamb as a group need to contribute some production… The Blue Jays are a dangerous lineup and will probably score a few themselves so we can’t score only 3 runs again and expect to win — ESPECIALLY with a weak pen which is likely to let a couple of runs in themselves.
Hopefully we get the 2020 version of Rendon. That would make our lineup truly dangerous.
I’d say that Urshela has been solid at the bottom of the order, buy yeah, Renfroe, Rengifo and Drury need to pick it up.
Yes, Urshela has been solid overall. That’s true. But All of Renfroe, Rendon (yeah, I know, small sample) Lamb and Drury have been horrible. The middle of the order really HAS to come through for you, at least a little bit.
good news and some bad news. Panda ugly no hitter.
https://sports.yahoo.com/angels-minor-league-team-throws-no-hitter–and-loses-7-5-000214012.html
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Where is the preview of tonight’s game and the game thread ??
Inquiring minds want to know !!!
Just looking backwards to 2020 before Covid struck the whole world.
https://crashingthepearlygates.com/2020/02/04/angels-acquire-outfielder-joc-pederson-in-blockbuster-mookie-betts-david-price-trade-for-luis-rengifo/
Some regulars were worried about us losing Brandon Marsh!!! LOL 😄
Anyways the main guy in the trade won the World Series and then he did it again the following year (not with us however).
When are you going to start showing who the Angels drafted instead of….(James Outman who doesn’t get out very often)? Maybe you could stop yakking about Joc? Think about it.
https://www.mlb.com/news/jo-adell-homers-in-fourth-straight-for-triple-a-salt-lake?partnerID=web_article-share
That actually looks good. If he keeps that up…… mmmm.
GhostBot can explain to you how he can hit at AAA and not at MLB…..yet.
We hope.
Because he’s just a mistake pitch hitter…….a Jesus Aguilar in the OF
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My brother in law just texted me from work and said that he just sold a big ol box of weed to Matt Chapman. 😆 Sent me a pic of meeting him.
Hopefully it helps him more than it did Cody Bellinger
Codee Bellinjir has a WS ring
Jo doesn’t, however if we trade him to the Dodgers, Astros, Yankees, Mets, Padres, or Braves he just might have one just like his pal Brandon, who at least got to play in one. Maybe they’ll throw us another crumb or bone like Houston and Philly did with Sandoval and O’Hoppe.
WTF does your inane posting have to do with my quip about Matt Chapman . Can you even read Twofus?
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we’re going need the good stuff tonight..more Lamb falling down at 1st and Auto Out Thaiss behind to dish.
1WardLF
2TroutCF
3OhtaniDH
4Rendon3B
5RenfroeRF
6Lamb1B
7UrshelaSS
8Rengifo2B
9ThaissC
Nevins bullpen decisions has to come from upstairs. Maddon didnt want to be micro managed and Phil is just happy to be here as a manager regardless of how much input Perry has. Either way, it is early in the season. There is a lot of grief carrying over from last season. Every loss is going to be doom and gloom and every win is going to have a this is our year moment.
Some how I kinda doubt Nevin is sitting around waiting for Perry to tell him what to do during a game.
Perry loves analytics, sabermetrics. Im not saying that Perry calls the dugout but Im do believe Perry influences whos in and whos out.
Doyers give Dave Roberts the computer generated game plan before the game…
didn’t you read how Maddon was complaining about Perry calling the dugout, telling Maddon to take players out of the game?
I didn’t. You got a link?
https://www.si.com/mlb/2022/10/06/joe-maddon-tom-verducci-book-excerpt
That one escaped me somehow. Thanks. Good read.
If you read the whole book Maddon complains consistently how the game has changed and somehow his gut feel in game is superior to utilizing real time data analysis It’s actually a really self serving embarrassing argument on his behalf . He praises his old boss Andrew Friedman but he’s even more controlling than Perry
I kind of get the sense that, after multiple meetings and talks and meetings about talks Perry eventually resorted to calling the dugout to yell at Maddon to do what they’d already gone over multiple times.
Then, in the next episode, PTP called Maddon to let him know he was fired. Then Maddon piped up his bitch voice to complain about phone calls happening.
Instead of, you know, winning ball games.
No but I’m sure there’s matchup meetings before each game . Don’t forget that bench coach Ray Montgomery is part of Perry’s Paddle of Platypus so Nevin is definitely well instructed even if he’s making the final call
Yeah. This is how I imagine it works. From what I have been able to gather pretty much every team has the manager, the bench coach, both, or even all the coaches meet with FO guys most days or at least at the beginning of each series.
I know they even do this a lot on MiLB teams now.
I worked with a guy who just washed out of the Braves system. He said that from AA upwards manager met with FO about opponents and a rep of the MLB FO regarding player development concerns during said games before each series. Specialty coaches did the same with FO once a week. Then players had a meeting about the manager/FO doings THEN their meeting with hitting/pitching etc coach each week to discuss problems, goals, work outs etc. That’s the norm, even at that level.
Ahhhh yes. The ol’ CONTROLLED BY THE MAN manager, bizzaro version of the ol’ DINOSAUR manager. Cause a guy can’t be given a medium size binder full of factual numbers at the beginning of a series, look at it with his friends, and then have that information in his head while he makes various decisions that use that info to varying degrees.
It’s time for us to make a choice here in our 31 Flavors of Iced Bitch. See, if Nevin is just a tool, that means Perry has a big pile of brains scouting out and calculating all the situations so they can fill Nevin’s laptop. But then we’d have to haveto pay a FO with staff and stuff.
OR Arte is cheap. Nevin may get some input from the minimal game planning staff PTP has, but he’s making most of the decisions himself.
Or we’re morons and we think PTP is just watching the game and calling the dugout. Given how many of us still defend Maddon like he wasn’t a multiyear failure, in addition to being a bitch, this may actually be the case.
And who do I blame when I’m stressing over every mistake made in a game like it’s pediatric brain surgery? PTP or Nevin?
2 4 6 8 tell me who I’m supposed to hate here people.
I cant tell if your on the spectrum of insane or genius. Angels baseball do cause people to go insane.
Bullpenning is definitely Perry and crew at least ‘guidelines’
i doubt Nevin would go Loup-Tepera for instance that first game; that sounds FO
I think I heard Wayne Razzle Dazzle say Herget only gave up 4 HR last season. He made a big mistake last night. It sucked. But Nevin’s decision was solid. Turn your cap. Tip the page. Go get em tonight.
Yeah. No issue with pulling Moore in that spot. His stuff looked hittable. Herget just threw a bad pitch as Bichette was up there golfing.
I actually missed all of Moores ABs cause of stupid work making me do my job. Was he throwing his special new pitch from last year?
At this rate we’re going to lose 46 games when our starting pitchers throw 6 innings of shutout or one run ball.
Luckily, at this rate, we’ll go 93-23 in all other games
This is almost certainly what will happen.
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https://youtu.be/-JVL6Uu0t88
We actually won this game, because according to this movie there’s a alternative realm that exists……….AND I WILL FIND IT!!!!! 😆 😆 💪 💪 👈
Is there an alternate realm where you don’t exist ?
Disappointing loss for sure, as the Angels had the lead for most of the game, and had a chance to tie it towards the end. But it won’t be the last of these types of games. Hopefully, bullpen gets better.
Nevin on his pitching decisions:
Nevin on why he pulled Sandy early:
It’s like real baseball men have been saying since the Halos Heaving days. We need to get away from managers who fall for all this analytics hokum and get an older, fatter manager that goes with his gut.
Exactly…thank you!!
Like Soggy Joe Maddon?
Nevin does not have too much consistent arms to leverage. Gonna be a mix and match all season with this motley crew. Minasian has a horrible track record building pens thus far in Anaheim. Herget and Quintana are a couple of decent finds but not much more. Estevez has me, concerned. Strike throwing ability and too much full counts, not desired for your “closer.”
Let’s get the next two in the series.
Let’s get the Toronto Sweep !!!
Cheap Arte must have dropped some COIN for that badass pre-game flyover. Small victories. Go team.
I don’t understand why they keep giving Moore the quick hook. He gives up one hit or one walk in an inning and then they pull him. Then the next guy comes in and immediately gives up runs. Just let him finish out the inning!
This is how I feel, but it is a risk, and a risk that I think a lot of folks would be angry about. If you want to let pitchers pitch through the weaker side of their splits so you can find out who can and can’t do it you are gonna have a few instances of guys getting beat up pretty bad.
Testing and failing until you test and find your best assets early in the season is not a championship move that convinces Ohtani you are seriously serious. It’s too realistic and likely to be what almost all of the teams has to do.
To my eyes, Moore’s stuff looks hittable if you make him throw strikes. He lives off the curve ball and getting hitters to chase in the dirt. If he falls behind in the count, he’s forced to throw his lousy fastball over the plate.
The key for tonight’s game is “Boys Don’t Cry” by The Cure.
I tried to laugh about it/
covered it all up with lies
So after all that build up, after facing my fears and laying out my feelings for her, the Angels didn’t stay the night last night. Rejected.
But it’s going to be alright. Today is a new day. I’m not going to cry even though my heart is crushed. Angels, please win tonight so tomorrow I can easily say with conviction that boys really don’t cry.
https://youtu.be/9GkVhgIeGJQ
I beg to differ!
With all due respect to Samurai culture…that looks ridiculous.
I’ll say it again, until the bullpen is improved, we’re a .500 club.
Yeah, it’s hard to win knowing you need at least a 4 run lead when your starter exits
And oh by the way…that helmet is historically incorrect.
really expected the angels to do better and respect samurai culture while bro hym is playing and Gary in lower view chugs a coors lite.
Gary? Spongebob’s “cat” snail?
Yeah, I am pretty sure Shohei would not want to put that thing on his head.
I heard from Randazzo/Gubie that Shohei is the one who picked it out.
Even if Shohei did pick it out…it’s embarassing.
I heard that Shohei is confused as to how anyone could really give so big a shit about this.
NEWS FLASH!!!!!!!:
Shohei Ohtani is the first player in forty two generations to be totally confused by the nitpicky bullshit online fans focus on AND pitch twenty innings AND hit a home run in the same month! Zomz! He needs to be a Yankee!
I love it personally
Agreed – it shows Ohtani’s mom that we’re serious about winning.
Or…she’s giving him a finger wag because it’s so bad..
I think the key consideration is that our FO, players and manager all need to realize that there is absolutely no way that the pitchers we have will improve. It’s been seven games. It’s clear what all of these guys will be for the next five months. We need to act NOW until next week, when we will also need to act NOW, and then the next time, also act NOW.
It’s been proven time and time again that this is the best way to manage a team and that this is the method players love.
Its sweet.
If we are forced to see it, just hope they avoid last years hat escapade where the Angels stuck with the cowboy hat even trailing by significant runs and on a lengthy losing streak. Like, stop fucking around already and look at the scoreboard.
Given the general ability of the entire MLBPA to keep doing things even when it’s lame as hell I’m pretty sure we are gonna see some sad hat shows.
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Free Anthony Rendon!