6-2 Dodgers
Sigh… Paragraph after paragraph after paragraph of positivity, down the drain. Reid Detmers made an epic comeback that was squandered by an inability to score, Shohei Ohtani was back in Angel Stadium in an official capacity for the first time in a year, the Dodgers were striking out worse than I do at a bar, and Ben Joyce threw a pitch with so much zest that every person watching actually went blind.
And yet, I’m just at a loss for words. We expect less than nothing every single night and still manage to come away from a game with stomach pains and a headache.
Let’s just get it over with, I guess.
Detmers returned to the Big A and looked like he did in April, only running into slight trouble in the 3rd inning and allowing 3 consecutive hits to the murderer’s row top of the lineup. Those were the only 3 hits the Dodgers would collect through the first 9 innings. Ben Joyce punctuated those 9 with a 105.5 MPH pitch with amazing location that made me feel like everything was going to be okay… until it wasn’t.
Roansy Contreras is going to get a lot of hate for this, and some of it is probably deserved, but… uh. I don’t really have anything to add. You ruined my night, dude.
See, I turned the game off after the 9th because I”ve seen this script before, and I don’t like scary movies.
Funnily enough, I was actually on a horror movie kick this past weekend and binged like 7 or 8 in two days. The original premise for the loss postgame was saying the 10th inning was worse for my heart than Alien: Romulus, Event Horizon, Suspiria, and Pulse combined, until I lost the morale to follow through.
I just watched Ben Joyce K Tommy Erdman late in the game for the 3rd out: 105.5 mph, on the inside corner. One of the most ridiculously great pitches I’ve ever seen, and I’m…ancient.
And yea: Detmers has been fixed. For now. What a great performance. Too bad Kyle Schwarber had more total bases tonight than we did.
Ward and Logan-O HRs: 8 TB
Captain Neto and Dreary: a single a piece: 10 TB for the Angels.
Schwarber: 3 HRs, a double and a single: 15 TB.
But yea. I guess it’s to be expected. What I didn’t expect: for Detmers to look so damned good.
Dang. Detmers exceeded my expectations. Great performance.
Reid “Fucking” Detmers
Only to be screwed over by Washington and his bullpen management. The true Angels experience.
We already used our two best relievers in Quijada & Joyce. He should we have used in the 10th?
We scored 2 runs. That is why we lost this game.
Agreed.
Great starting pitching and all around effort. Lost to the best team money can buy. I’m sure Easy Sho really wants to win these games, doesn’t want to look bad on his better super team. Big FU to Pantone and their ‘takeover’ visit. Only Doyers could have such a cocky following.
Letting Drury and Kavadas bat in the 10th was tantamount to throwing in the towel.
Having them on the roster is throwing in the towel. Kavadas looks worst than McAnulty!
I think McAnulty would EAT the towel:
Hey, that’s Ni-KK-o you’re talking about!!
Who were better options on the bench?
No, who is on first
Stefanic. Thaiss. Even LeBlanc.
We needed a rally; it would be different if it was a one run game.
Well, nine strong innings of quality pitching.
Heavy sigh
Glad I worked a 12 hour day instead of watching the late inning failure.
Is Wash playing 10D chess by throwing in the dumpster dives to shame the FO into not doing that anymore? Or is this another of his didn’t know the score kinda moves.
Core came thru, only need 10-15 more players and we’re gold!
Nice fundamental baseball from m the “fundamentals” manager Washington. Still can’t seem to plate the ghost runner, and still making bad bullpen decisions. Why does Contreras, a Pirates cast off, on this team?
We can still finish as a .500 team, just have to win our last 24.
My consolation for the night is that Seattle lost again and *they* are now under.500, too
I heard Seattle lost via another walkoff. Classic. JERRY MUST GO!
Scary Jerry, dude is done.