On National Hot dog Day, the Angels looked to make it a sweet by sweeping the Yankees and returning to above .500. On the mound to make that happen was Chase Silseth. This 3rd edition of Chase was making the Yankees chase as he went 5 and 2 thirds innings giving up 1 run (2 if you count the one Soriano gave up) on 4 hits, striking out 10 and walking 2.
Helping make this happen was the offense, scoring 2 runs in 3 straight innings to start the game. Rodon was not acting like the ace the Yankees wanted him to be. And it wasn’t just one player or one mistake, as giving up a 2 run blast to Ward is more respectable than a 2 run bomb to Rengifo.
The good starting pitching for the 3rd straight start on top of a nice lead made the bullpen rather happy indeed. With the off day tomorrow, the light use this series, and healthy arms coming back, the bullpen is in a much better place than it was last week.
Highlighted Recap
The Angels got things started with a Taylor “Blake” Ward 2 run home run in the first.
In the 2nd, Luis Rengifo hit one as well.
Then in the 3rd, M-I-C-K-E-Y singled in the 5th run of the game.
And Escobar drove in the 6th with a groundout.
That is how it was until the 6th when Chase left one over the plate to Stanton, who hit it out.
Well, time for bullpen now, despite how good Chase has been going. Starting with Soriano. Aaand he gave up multiple hits, a walk, and a HBP. Also a run.
Well, as long as the Angels hold it, things should be fine. Oh and there is another home run in the 8th.
Good thing Ward doubled in that run back in the bottom of the 8th.
Loup, of all people, shut the door and secured the Angels the sweep!
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Angels are now over .500 again! This is the first sweep vs the Yankees since 2009! Day off tomorrow, but it is the Pirates in town with Shohei Ohtani on the mound Friday with a Fanny Pack Giveaway.
National Hot Dog Day?
Where are Callaspo and Aybar?
Of the remaining series 12 are against winning teams and 9 are against losing teams. This sweep was exciting, but I don’t know if I am regaining hope. Gotta win those series against Toronto and Atlanta before I’m buying it. And of course don’t sleep on Pittsburgh and Detroit.
Demanding a series win against Atlanta is setting the bar pretty high.
Yep
The Yankees were a “winning team” coming in here as well. It’s baseball. The Rays can’t win a game all of a sudden. Its all about how the team is playing in that moment. It’s cliche but aside from strategic nuances and the occasional rivalry matchup the opponent is meaningless. Play your game and control the controllables.
It’s a series by series evaluation at this juncture. Let’s see how it goes with Pittsburgh & Detroit and take it from there. The playoff landscape changes significantly from week to week.
I remember the red sox sweep thinking the marlins would be easy….ooops.
Off the subject, did Max Stassi retire?? I saw something that looked like a Twitter announcement. Does anyone know?
Oh wow. You’re right. Surprised the team site doesn’t say anything yet.
The only thing I see on his Twitter profile is that he retweeted Jason Castro’s retirement announcement (from 2022). That announcement is the more recent message on his Twitter profile, so if one isn’t looking closely, it might be confusing.
That must be it. Thanks.
interesting fact: Rendon retired immediately after signing the $245mm contract, but Twitter servers “lost” his Tweet.
Unfortunately Rendon injured his hand keying the message, and was too GA to re-send when cleared by his medical staff to resume use of Twitter.
Before the break was over, everyone and their dog were proclaiming that this is the toughest stretch the Angels will have, that in order to have any chance in the playoffs at all, they need to have a strong showing against Houston and NY. Some were even proclaiming to get ready for an 11 game losing streak.
Well, they did just that, coming out of the break winning 4 out of 6. Even with the series loss against the cheaters, it wasn’t like they were totally outclassed and outplayed. They almost won that series.
They passed the first test. Now the next test comes – will they play strong against the “weaker” teams, or will they play to their level? Time will tell.
The entire team needs to embrace the cliches: One AB at a time, one inning at a time & one game at a time.
And of course “turn the page”
Two difference right before ASG and after. Neto and Moore.
I remember Cowboy26 used to post W-L record when Neto went on IL. We went 7W-14L during his absence. When Neto played, we have 34W-26L. He has not quite gotten back his offensive mojo back. His BA was 0.185 after first 8 games after he was called up, so we should allow him to have few more games. His defense has been close to perfect.
Moore is not quite shut down reliever after he returned, but I am happy that we have him back.
35-26 after today’s victory Mr. Chan
I think he provides a spark. Enthusiasm, hustle, toughness. We definitely missed him.
And in the stretch without Neto we lost multiple games on defensive errors or inexperience.
I think after this Pirates series if we can get at least 2-3 we are probably in buy mode.
In talks with the Sox I probably bypass Cease and start with a Cali kid whose stuff I’ve always appreciated. Lucas Giloito, still just 29 and A much needed righty with swing and miss stuff. 3.96 ERA 1.20 WHIP .220 BAA, and 9.47 K/9 this year. FA this summer so should not be too crazy of an asking price. See what’s good Perry!
Definitely down with Giolito if were buyers.
LTBU!
The Hoffy Ball park dogs never tasted sooo good.
Farmer John is still my favorite. Bar S has to be the absolute worst brand of hot dogs.
Yes, but FJ is also crap
Maybe it’s nostalgia then, since that’s what I grew up on living in SoCal… haven’t had them for years. Now I just get Oscar Meyer.
Bar S-hit is made from road kill and cow anus. Horrible disgrace of for a hot dog.
Free the WeinerMobile
There’s a Bar-S factory in town and I just cannot understand how anyone would want to work there.
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LTBU 😇😇😇
We’ll, I’m off to Pinstripe Alley for some entertainment
Have fun!
😂 sky is falling over there
Yep, they want Cashman, Boone fired, and Ohtani traded to them for their flotsam, and signed long term.
Seems logical. What’s the problem? 😂
Happy Trolling to you.
Thank god we got to start playing against poverty franchises like the Yankees finally.
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Not sure of this series told us the Angels are good or the Yankees are really bad right now.
Glad for the sweep though.
Same opinion. I think the next series with Pirates and White Sox will tell us a lot. I am certain Nevin is telling the players to take one game at a time. The usual stuff.
broke the series K Record and swept..thats big
Down side to today is keeping 6-man rotation around. 😖 eeeeeeeeeeeeeee 😁
I love your opinions and positivity, but I am going to agree to disagree with you on that.
I read somewhere that Houston used 6 man rotation last season on their way to World Series. This year, Dusty said they used 6 man rotation when they had to play 26 games in 27 days before ASG this season.
The following starters are on IL
Texas; DeGrom, Odorizzi
Houston: McCullers, Garicia, Urquidy
Atlanta: Fried, Wright, Allard
Tampa Bay: Rasmussen, Fleming
LA Dodgers:May, Papiot, Buehler, Kershaw, Syndergard
Baltimore:Means
Though we lost Suarez earlier, (some people may argue that that was a blessing in disguise), I maintain that 6 man rotation is what kept Ohtani/Detmers/Canning/Sandoval/Anderson relatively healthy. If Angels are still contending for playoff spot in late August, I heard Nevin would convert 6 man to 5 man, putting the odd pitcher out to bullpen. Sho has proven that he can pitch on 5 man rotation last season in late August and whole September. He had 6 wins in a row, pitched 8 innings in 2 of them.
“Sho has proven that he can pitch on 5 man rotation last season in late August”
That’s great news. Any idea who will take his place come next August? For sure it’ll be too soon to have developed the player we get with the compensatory pick in the 3rd round.
Hopefully one of Detmers or Canning will develop enough to fill that hole.
Corbin Burnes
You know the drill…
That’s perfect.
Loup found some regeneration magic?
Ohtani-Follow that cab big guy!!
For those of you that want Shohei to stick around, it’s closer to happening than to not happening.
From your mouth to Arte’s…..I mean God’s ears.
Help me understand how?
But you may be underestimating Ohtani’s a) intelligence, b) discretion in letting on what his thoughts are and c) most importantly, his burning desire to win, which to him is way more important than any amount of money. With his endorsements and all, no amount of money will override his desire to win a world series. Unless you think he has the patience to wait around for four or five years to see if we can get that far. Based on the last decade, I’d say he’d rather go where there is more of a history of high level success.
He. sees what Trout has been through for many years with one playoff series to have played in. Just because we swept the Yankees….. that lineup is sad right now.
I think GP means the remainder of the season. I remember his posting that he does not anticipate Ohtani staying in Anaheim. GP has never underestimated Ohtani’s intelligence, discreet yet consistent method of public speech, and intense internal desire to win. In fact, he has been marveled by all of those, as we all have been.
Just about everyone including me agrees that Ohtani should have been traded last off season or last year’s trade deadline. That negligence is totally on Moreno. Now that we are 12 days away from deadline, no team would gut out their top prospects for 2 month rental. Many national pundits predict that Moreno would keep Ohtani no matter what especially now that Ohtani is in position to win AL MVP and possibly AL homerun crown/record. Moreno would not choose by trading Ohtani to lose all the money that would have been generated by larger attendance at Big A. He might even lose many of the Japanese sponsors and TV rights, which must be at least $50 MM per year in value once he leaves.
The only constant phrases Ohtani has used thus far is he desires to win as Angel this season. Nothing about next season. So, whether we like it or not, we just have to keep watching and see what happens for the rest of the season.
I haven’t been this happy since my twenty-first birthday. Not sure why though, I can’t remember it 😂
Does Mrs. GrandpaBaseball know that?
Yankees had 8 hits, 16K, 3BB, 3R
Angels had 6 hits, 6K, 11BB, 7R
We swept because Yankees bats were terrible throughout the series.
We still need to fix our situational hitting.
BB is why we won. Well maybe it was the HRs, although it could be pitching won it. Truth is it was our turn to win today without being very good. We have certainly lost our share of crazy losses.
BB?
Bat Boy?
Bon Bon’s?
Big Betty?
Made me look up. Bare Back. Big Brother. Body Builder. Blackberry among others. 😆
Thanks, Buddy Boy!
BB King.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgXSomPE_FY
Brigitte Bardot?
Four of them were of course from Shohei. I am glad Moniak is providing some protection, and good to see that Ward hit that homerun, but we would love to have more consistent protection for Sho.
No worries. Rendon should be back within a month.
I would not mention his name around here too much.
I mean I would love if we fix our situational hitting but we Top 5 MLB offensively, Even thought it could help us became TOP 3…. Our main Issue is Pitching
I agree with you. And Canning/Sandoval/Silseth looked really good because they pitched against really struggling Yankees ever since they lost Judge. So, it is amazing that our bats are doing relatively well despite absence of Trout and Rendon. I think the series with Pirates and White Sox will provide us with better barometer to evaluate how Angels are doing. Especially pitching.
Is that all we need to fix? How about another semi-ace other than Ohtani and the pitching depth? Also from what I understand the system is still ranked quite low on the pecking order. Lots of work to do. Fill in another three position players the quality of Neto, O’Hoppe and Moniak, and another real quality pitcher. Then we might have something.
I suppose you have not read my previous posts that the series were between two poorly managed teams who are not playoff worthy. Angels swept the Yankees because the latter made more mistakes than Angels did. Both teams as they are constructed currently have no chance of reaching playoffs.
I am not confident with Angels pitching including Ohtani at all. The performances by Canning/Sandoval/Silseth could very well be fool’s gold. If they do well against Pirates, White Sox, Blue Jays and, most of all, #1 rated Braves, then I might change my mind.
As much as it irritates me, this current team is not a situational hitting team. Long gone are the days of Soth Ball. This team’s philosophy is to not give up free outs and wait for a homerun. That means no bunting, very little sacrificing runners over, and very little base stealing. The problem is that works when we’ve got Drury, Urshela, Rendon, and Trout in the lineup. Not so much when it’s Velasquez, Rengifo, Wallach…
SWEEP for the Big rotten apple trash heap of a city!!
Go Halos!!