There was no scoring through the third inning, but Shohei Ohtani allowed consecutive homers to back to back batters, Chu Man Choi and Henry Davis plus a single by Jared Triolo that didn’t amount to anything because of a couple of ground outs. 2-0 Tigers.
In the bottom of the fourth, Shohei Ohtani walked. Micky Moniak doubled, driving in Shohei Ohtani.
Taylor Ward walked. Mike Moustakas homered to make it 4-2 Angels.
Both Moniak and Ward scored. After a couple of outs, Trey Cabbage also homered to make it 5-2 Angels.
Nick Gonzales was hit by a pitch and Jake Suwinski homered to make it 5-4 Angels. The next three Pirates were out. In the bottom of the fifth, Zach Neto homered to make it 6-4 Angels.
Shohei Ohtani reached on a strikeout/wild pitch. Taylor Ward then got a one out homer. 8-4 Angels.
In the top of the sixth, Henry Davis homered to make it 8-5 Angels. Then we had a couple of strikeouts and a ground out to bring the Angels back up. A quick ground out and two strike outs brought the Pirates back up again.
They didn’t really do anything in their half of the seventh inning. Well, really nothing else happened at all. The Angels won 8-5.
Rengifo leading off?? Maybe this is the key to unlock him.. he’s going 2-4 tonight for sure watch.
Well, I will say, as crappy as his average is, he has always been good at drawing walks.
I’m just happy Phil is keeping Moniak / Ward at 3 & 4 because they are RAKING.
https://twitter.com/sportstoooge/status/1682883860701364227?s=10&t=h3GQB12U8i0KVoRY0FQJOA
I am so sad.
Not.
Question: Do you think that’s a real picture of Rendon in a wheelchair?
The picture is not what my comment was about, lol.
Ah OK. Hard to tell on mobile where i see a hyperlink which turns into said photo when I click it.
Mariners on verge of taking down the Jays again
That’s good. We need Toronto to falter.
Jays had a chance to tie the game on a sac fly and got scared. Didn’t send Merrifield on Julio. 9-8 M’s 2 outs 1st and 3rd. They needed Hassleman at 3rd lol
Blue Jays lost. Angels are 3.5GB WC3 now.
Good. Now let us hope Seattle takes care of business again tomorrow and then struggles against the Twins and the D-Backs.
That was the good news. The bad news is Mariners are also 3.5GB WC3. They are firmly back in the playoff race.
Yup and they have better pitching top to bottom than us. Along with Julio and Ty France who have underperformed all year and could get hot now. Wild race
Doyers beat up the Rangers today too literally. 16-3 and Seager hurt yesterday ( to the IL) and Garcia today . Might be testing their depth the next couple weeks while we hopefully get healthy .. keep chipping away!
Yay!
I think we have to start being concerned about Jerry’s Kids as well now …We have identical records of 50-48 as we speak..
All we need to do is take care of business when we play them……that simple.
Well, that is not ALL we have to do .. We have to win our other games too !!
We do? Dang
Revised lineup (IMO)
Ohtani – DH
Moniak – CF
Ward – LF
Moose – 3B
Thaiss – C
Renfroe – RF
Cabbage – 1B
Rengifo – 2B
Squid – SS
Incredible how much a .250 hitting rookie SS impacts our fortunes.
Now if this was Burger King, I would go with:
Plummer – 2B
Ohtani – DH
Moniak – CF
Ward – RF
Moose – 3B
Thaiss – C
Renfroe – RF
Cabbage – 1B
Squid – SS
I think we’re better off defensively with Squid covering ground between Moose & Plummer.
It’s seriously stupid we keep playing Rengifo
Unfortunately, we all know Rengifo is starting tonight. Someone on the team needs to show some moxie because I know damn well Rengifo doesn’t have duplicates of the incriminating photos he keeps in his tote bag.
Rengifo flashes just enough talent (arm, occasional pop and position flexibility) to hang around and he’s always healthy.
Man if only he could bottle last years second half. Outside of that stretch he’s never been big league worthy aside from being available
The advantage of Rengifo is he is unpredictable and he has extremely short memory. The disadvantages are too numerous to list.
https://twitter.com/SamBlum3/status/1682902567544815617
Hopefully Phil opts for either Ohtani or Stefanovich at leadoff.
Please keep Moniak/Ward where they are now.
Would be cool to see plumber there. I hate Ohtani leading off. Too ga to look it up but we have gotten destroyed in games where he leads off. .300 winning percentage would be my guess
I agree with you. I like the Ohtani-Moniak-Ward flown in the 2-3-4 spots, but for Plummer to start, Rengifo has to play SS, right?
Squid at Short .. plumber at 2nd. Can’t believe we keep playing Rengifo it’s so frustrating
Man Zach is too young to be having. All these soft tissue issues. Gotta get him on some yoga or Pilates workouts asap
Internal bleeding for Rendon.
Chance that Rendon negotiates a buyout and retires? Would love to free up $35 million off the roster.
Ohtani could get a $20 million raise, keep a cheap OF payroll of Adell, Moniak, Ward. IF will be Neto, O’Hoppe maybe Schaunel . Cabbage , Adams, Stefanic play the other spots. .
I see Rendon’s left over money , Loup and Renfroe’s money for Giolito. Would be a massive development.
I assume the followings. This information is either via Nevin or via Sammy through Nevin, who are not quite physiologically inclined or physical therapy oriented.
The bone contusion almost always involves some damage to the periosteum (outer layer of the bone which contains network of blood vessels and nerve endings). The impact (in this case, the baseball that was hit by Rendon) causes the blood vessels to break and forms hematoma (collection of blood). Hematoma, while it causes the inflammation and pain, contains white blood cells and reparative elements to start he healing process. Thus, the length of time required for healing is proportional to the size of initial hematoma.
Initial X-ray did not show hematoma; that was just to rule out fracture. With Rendon’s pain not going away after few weeks, I bet he underwent MRI, which is excellent in identifying hematoma and gives information regarding the size of blood collection. So, this is not that unusual, The initial hematoma must have been fairly large and the medical advice now is to give Rendon 2 more weeks and reevaluate. Rendon’s return is now at least pushed to the middle to late August. Would be interesting to surmise who will the first person that returns to action out of O’Hoppe, Trout, and Rendon.
Probably Trout, O’Hoppe and Rendon – assuming Rendon returns at all.
“if it wasn’t for bad luck…..”
If I were to hazard a guess, that would have been my choice. 😉
This partly depends on standings as well. If the Angels remain “in it”, I think Trout is back in late August with O’Hoppe not far behind.
If their “out of it”, they’ll slow roll it, particularly with O’Hoppe.
I don’t know if this is a good omen. Yu Chang, who underwent hamate surgery earlier in the season has just hit a homerun. It bodes well for Trout, who is itching by now to swing a bat.
Even his bones are soft. With that said, most every team would have reached that diagnosis 3 weeks ago. Not sure it would have made a difference in recovery, but I’d bet it would….I failed out of medical school, couldn’t pass Blood Letting 101, so what do I know.
Did they give you the boot when you broke out the leaches as a treatment suggestion? Haha
They still use leeches today. Bad skin Infections, infections in the body, maggots too. They eat only unhealthy dead tissue, eat right up to the edge of the healthy tissue. Rendon should do it.
Why do you think Rendon would do anything but collect every penny called for by his contract.
Uh no, will never happen. In addition the MLBPA would be apoplectic if Rendon did that.
Neto scratched with back tightness…FFS
https://twitter.com/SamBlum3/status/1682870000493928448
We’re screwed.
Well that blows.
Crap. That’s the beating heartbeat of this team
Poop
Go Mets…again!!
Scherzer on bump.
https://fantasydata.com/mlb/daily-lineups?date=07-22-2023
Neto
Ohtani
Moniak
Ward
Moustakas
Thaiss
Renfro
Cabbage
Rengifo
Detmers
That’s a winning lineup, LFG.
Renfro & Rengifo
We’d be better off with Ren & Stimpy
https://twitter.com/SamBlum3/status/1682854840102277120?s=20
10 fricken seconds quicker!!!
What’s with that angle shot he seems to love?
He’s Sam…
I believe he’s not straight.
He leans to one side or the other….when he takes his pictures.
A dunce traditionally stands in the corner.
This is it.
I might be wrong on this, but is it the first time this season that Nevin have the same lineup from the previous day?
It seems so unlikely, but with Nevin it is certainly possible. Even at the start of the season before anyone was injured Nevin changed the lineup each game.
I like that Phillip kept the left handed bats in the lineup. Huge.
5-1 Doyers over Strangers bottom 3rd.
7-1 Doyer. Fredrick F’ing Freeman with 2 HRs
10-1 Doyer….it’s a home game for them too. Got to be slightly more Doyers fans there…..at least it sounds like that.
Difference between Angels and Doyers.
Hershiser was talking about how the Rangers in “real-time” are likely discussing the pitching situation being down (7-1 at the time) in the top 4th . He said the Rangers bench might (likely) talk to the GM from the bench, in game, to discuss pitching options for tomorrows day game. Basically, saying the Rangers capitulate, manage for tomorrow. Playing against the Doyers, I’m sure that’s true.
Change that scenario, Angels up 7-1, top 4, in Texas, the Rangers are not managing for tomorrow, they are managing to win todays game. And the Angels are terrified they will choke that game/lead away……And the Doyers, just go through the motions, and coast to a win.
Different trAditions, different organizations.
And we win 8-7 in 9 innings after Phillip bows through the entire bullpen.
The guy Arte should have sunk his billboard dollars in
He would have gone all bitch (Rendon) on us if we had signed him
Freeman is as money as they come
Yes, and Freeman clearly enjoys playing baseball.
If he signed with the Angels……Half the stats. True. trAdition.
If only Oakland will beat the cheaters! As long as the cheaters keep winning, all the losing of the Rangers does is get houston to catch up for the division lead
I had to check the date on the. Buster article. He conveniently cited 15% fangraphs Chance rather than 4 games out and noting that fangraphs chance was 7 % just 2 days ago. Chances go up exponentially with each win. This last few weeks has been a master class in media hysteria
Outside of the 2002-2009 window, I’ve never heard this much discussion about the Angels from the media. Most of it is understandably dismissive of the Angel organization. Haven’t turned on the radio in my car without hearing Shohei talk. And almost always with no regard for the actual team he plays for.
It’s become my #1 reason I hope he stays with us, so we can rub that shit it their face.
Eat it media!
Yes, it blew their minds when Trout wanted to stay with the team. It will be nice to blow their minds again.
I am no fan of Arte , but this is like 90% of CEOs and bosses or whomever. Olney is going to lay hit piece after hit piece especially after Angels twitter went after him and he doubled down in his awful line of questioning to Nevin. Olney is up there with Jim Gray in stupid questions.
Agree with this.
I know this is going to be another Charlie Brown football thing, but the Angels are getting my hopes up
Someone posted this the other day, guess we have moved to the too of the triangle.
T’was me.
I dont think the Angels have had an international signing experience any modicum of MLB success since they signed Jamie Barria out of Panama 10 years ago.
But it would appear that cheap and evil Arte has finally released some of that strangle hold on the purse strings which could bode well for our future with the potential development of Quero as well as others like this guy. https://twitter.com/steve_wendt/status/1682608395088719872
Translation for the twitter impaired: Angel Prospect Nelson Rada stole his 40th base of the season for the IE last night. Hes 40 for 46 in bag thefts . Not bad for a 17 year old.
He grades out as a 55 for speed so he is not a blazer. Understand his success leans heavily on reading the pitchers. Selective hitter, walks and strikeouts about equal, what’s not to like. Above average arm. 17-year old, crazy.
We’ll see if he survives the trade deadline. He would be a guy that I would ask for.
I identify as Twitter Impaired so I appreciate the translations.
Ohtani is a great player and an incredible talent but he is overrated and his next contract is virtually guaranteed to be a disaster from a performance standpoint.
-He will be 30 the first season of the contract. Hard to overstate how much of a red flag that is
-He is a pitcher who requires a 6 pitcher rotation. Negates the myth of a saved roster spot, and guarantees that a below average (likely way below average) additional pitcher has to be carried. Instead of saving a roster spot, the reality is more like he costs whatever team he’s on an additional .25-0.5 roster spots- between the 6 pitcher rotation and him being a permanent DH who doesn’t play the field.
-He’s a permanent DH, which hamstrings the DH spot- other players can’t be rotated in to the DH spot for various purposes.
-He has averaged around 6 WAR per season since his debut. Yes, he has peaked in the last 3 years (and is having his best season in his contract year- ‘shocker’)- but that obviously will not last. He still has not had a season as good as Trout’s 2 best seasons and he will not remain nearly at his current level because of age (as well as possibly because of injuries).
-His value is relatively evenly split between being a pitcher and a hitter. That means that as soon as he becomes a 1 dimensional player (he likely won’t pitch for much longer, at least effectively), his value will go way down.
His next contract is guaranteed to be a disaster from a performance standpoint and he should be traded. In fact, he should have been traded by last season’s trade deadline at the latest.
Oh hey! Matt Moore was the pitcher for the Phillies in that famous Trea Turner slide-to-stand video: https://youtu.be/TmdxWPhk7Ug
That slide alone Probably convinced the Phils spend $300 million on him.
Pretty Fly For A White Guy.
Go Royals!!!
MFY won…Mets beat Red Sux in the postponed game from yesterday
Schanuel and a fair number of our 2023 positional draftees debuted last night in Arizona… sort of a group dress rehearsal, it looks like, before the team reassigns them to higher levels. Especially interested to see how Cole Fontenelle does this season… maybe a steal in the 7th round. Maybe sticks at third.
https://www.milb.com/gameday/acl-d-backs-black-vs-acl-angels/2023/07/21/743231#game_state=final,lock_state=final,game_tab=box,game=743231
Just have to hope Schanuel becomes a James Loney 2.0 and not a bust
hopefully thats his floor and not his ceiling . I would be disappointed with that.
Only time will tell
Loney as a barometer would be severely disappointing.
Fontanelle may still be a little soft.
I guess they’ll have to baby him then.