Mike Trout is our nominee for the Roberto Clement award.
Today Griffin Canning went up against Tarik Skubal of the Detroit Tigers. LOL! The Angels tried their bestest to look as ugly as possible. Guess what. They succeeded. We only had three umpires and two of them were minor league umpires. Here are the starting lineups.
Inning 1:
Canning struck out the first two batters and then he started giving up hits. Two singles and a double resulted in a Tigers run early. 1-0 Tigers. The Angels followed that up with a three up three down inning. The tank is rolling!
Inning 2:
Javy Baez strikeout, Jake Rogers single, Parker Meadows four pitch walk … sheesh I can see where this is going. Matt Vierling flied out but Spencer Torkelson singled to drive in Jake Rogers. A two out single to score a runner from scoring position? Didn’t one of the new rules prohibit that? Anybody? Anybody? 2-0 Tigers. O’Hoppe pop out, Escobar strikeout, Grichuk strikeout. Tank kept a’rollin all night long. Tank kept a’rollin all night long.
Inning 3:
The Tigers just went three up three down What? Fletcher ground out, Adams strikeout, Brett Phillips strikeout.
Inning 4:
Javy Baez homered. 3-0 Tigers. Jake Rogers fly out, Parker Meadows single, Matt Vierling fly out, Spencer Torkelson ground out. Paris bunt single, Zach Neto pop out, Brandon Drury ground out, Logan O’Hoppe strikeout, Eduardo Escobar ground out.
Inning 5:
Tigers three up three down. Randal Grichuk singled on a sharp grounder to third. Fletcher popped out. Jordyn Adams struck out. Brett Phillips then grounded out to second. Three away.
Inning 6:
Zach McKinstry struck out. Javy Baez struck out. Jake Rogers homer. 4-0 Tigers. Parker Meadows strikeout. Paris and Neto struck out. Drury managed to get hit by a pitch. O’Hoppe worked a nine pitch strikeout. Tank patrol ho!
Inning 7:
Jose Marte replaced Griffin Canning on the mound. Matt Vierling struck out. Spencer Torkelson also struck out. Kerry Carpenter grounded out. Eduardo Escobar hit a fly ball out to right. Escobar fly out and a Randal Grichuk pop out before a David Fletcher homer. Yeah, he’s done! 4-1 Angels.
Jordyn Adams contributed a fly out to end the seventh.
Inning 8:
Jhonathan Diaz came in to pitch. Miguel Cabrera single, Andre Lipicius singled, pinch hitter Andre Ibanez singled. Javier Baez doubled to score pinch runner Tyler Nevin, Pinch Runner Zach Short, and Andre Ibanez. 7-1 Tigers. No problem, man! We got this! Jake Rogers singled. Parker Meadows walked. Matt Vierling hit a sacrifice fly to score Javy Baez. 8-1 Tigers. Spencer Torkelson doubled to score Jake Rogers. 9-1 Tigers. We got them right where we want them. Two more runs and we can bring in secret weapon Eduardo Escobar to pitch. Kerry Carpenter singled scoring both Parker Meadows and Spencer Torkelson. 11-1 Tigers. Tyler Nevin walked. The Angels moved some deck chairs around in the infield so Escobar could come in to pitch.
Zach Short flied out to center. Andy Ibanez grounded into a force out. That was a shutdown two thirds of an inning for Escobar, our best relief pitcher extraordinaire. I’m presuming they wilol bring in Phillips for the ninth. Oh, by the way, Phillips doubled to lead off the bottom of the eighth. Paris flied out to center. Wait, I thought that guy went down to Salt lake! Zach Neto and Brandon Drury both struck out.
Inning 9:
Oh dude! Deluxe two-way pitcher Eduardo Escobar came in for a second inning of work. He got Javy Baez to ground out and Jake Rogers to pop out. Parker Meadows also grounded out. I guess he can’t get the save.
Logan O’Hoppe struck out. Eduardo Escobar also struck out. Jared Walsh homered to make it 11-2 Tigers. You never know, I might still be able to wear that Jared Walsh t-shirt I bought from Breaking Ts. David ( Not Done Yet) Fletcher singled and then Jordyn Adams lined out to end the game.
The Angels lost this one 11-2.
