Jo Adell will miss a couple of days with his hip tightness. We shall see whether Kyren Paris can continue hitting now that it is the regular season.
In the first inning, Ward, Schanuel, and Trout all reached safely and then Jorge Soler sacrificed in a run. Yoan Moncada hit into an almost double play. He beat out the throw to first and Nolan Schanuel scored. 2-0 Angels.
Unfortunately, Nick Maton immediately hit a solo shot to make it 2-1 Angels. Luis Robert Jr. singled and made it to third on a couple of warning track fly balls. Matt Thaiss drove him in with a single to right. 2-2.
The second inning was uneventful. The top of the Angels order was back for the third inning. They made three quick outs. So did the White Sox.
Luis Rengifo made a pretty good play in the fifth inning.
For some reason, Ron Washington pulled Jack Kochanowicz after the sixth inning when he had thrown only 64 pitches. The game ground along with no further scoring until the bottom of the seventh inning when a hail storm put a stop to the festivities. Matt Thaiss was on second with one out at the time.
The Chicago grounds crew had a hell of a time pulling the tarp over the infield. It only took them about an hour and a quarter to get the whole infield covered. The delay was nearly three hours.
Miguel Vargas walked. Ben Joyce uncorked a wild pitch to send the runners to second and third. Basically the pitch went straight through the webbing on d’Arnaud’s glove. Joyce got out of the inning without giving up a run.
Kyren Paris led off the eighth inning with a homer. 3-2 Angels.
Kenley Jansen got the save. The Angels win 3-2.
Photo credit: Rex Fregosi
Sometimes My Balls Feel Like Tits
It’s a great song. It also pretty much describes the guys on this post game comment pile. It’s like an angry Woody Allen vibe accept he got laid more…. but with the ever present whiff of Momma Soprano to add some spice. If winning feels this bad I can’t wait to see what our first losing streak feels like.
So much horrible worst team I am so anger them should hang their heads in humiliation and Washington so stupid. Worst two wins ever. Arte.
After the Paris HR, typically he’d get the next two days off. TrAdition. With Adell hurt, our OPS leader should remain in the line up!
Or Adell makes a miraculous recovery tonite.
2 wins out of 3 games! No style points. But wins are wins.
They clearly miss Neto. Paris HR was huge. It looks like the older cast offs Anderson and Newman are going to be guys that can hit some against spring training pitching but cannot handle the regulars. Sadly, we will need to watch 3 weeks or more to confirm what seems apparent already.
At least the pitching was able to hold up. Admittedly it was against a lousy team. But small steps for now.
Hear me out! When healthy the pieces are in place for a solid lineup. I think lineup construction is more important on this team than most however and I don’t trust Washington and Perry to ever get it right. But if they did:
Paris – 2B
Rengifo – 3B
Trout – RF
Ward – LF
Soler – DH
Neto – SS
Ohoppe – C
Shaunel – 1B
Adell – CF
Is a solid 9 with nice length to it.
I like! I’d switch Gifo for Neto but splitting hairs. I like Gifo more at 9 and Adell at 6.
Yup that Works too. Maybe do that against lefties.
Rengifo might be our best hitter. He should be in the top 3. Putting him at the bottom is way less optimal.
I agree with giving Trout more protection.
3B Rengifo
RF Trout
LF Ward
DH Soler
SS Neto
1B Schanuel
C O’Hoppe
CF Adell
2B Paris
Rengifo does not belong in the lead off spot he doesn’t get on base enough to warrant that spot especially against RHP. I’d rather see Mike Trout bat now that hes been zapped of his power. At least he’ll get on base.
In fact the player with the highest On Base Percentage on this team right now Yoan Moncada. No-one else on this team is willing to take a walk.
I’m also in the Trout leadoff camp. Or 2nd at worst. Trouty getting another late inning AB is what I want; come at me “Trout ain’t clutch” bros.
I cant watch Rengifo play third base. he looks so much more comfortable at second. I’d rather they teach Paris to play the hot corner.
Paris becomes the new Rengifo, CF, SS, 2nd, on the job training 3rd, RF, LF, emergency 1st. Don’t tell him it’s hard, tell him you’ll play more and hit more 8th inning dingers.
But, Rengifo’s is still Rengifo….. just Rengifo lite.
The Utility Firm of Rengifo and Paris.
This makes good sense, we need more speed at the top of the order and more power in 5 and 6 holes. I like this.
If they try this and it doesn’t work for two games will you submit to punishment and humiliation?
Let me get this straight, the Angels scored 5 runs and gave up 10 runs yet won 2 out of 3 games this series. I think White Sox fans are going to suffer more than we do this season.
The Angels had only 2-extra base hits in the series, anemic
That won’t be good enough to beat the Cardinals.
Anything is possible with great pitching. Excited to see how we fare in St. Louis
I don’t like our SP for this series …We could get swept.
The team might get swept, but Mikolas and Liberatore don’t strike me as any better than Anderson and Hendricks. Those games might be surprising close.
We are in the first week of the season which helps: #4 against a #4 and 5 against a 5
This is true Rick, and good point. However, look at how the Cards offense has been doing compared to ours. They were scoring runs against the top of the Twins staff. My concern is that our offense won’t be able to keep up with the Cards … but we will see.
For the batting guru’s out there, how does Trout look? Is he on the cusp or do you see anything troubling?
I’m not sure about his swing mechanics, but todayTrout saw 21 pitches in his 4 at bats. Of those 21, only 5 were fastballs. 3 were out of the zone and he laid off. The other 2 in the zone he fouled off so it looks like his biggest problem is reacting to and driving the off speed pitch.
That will come.
I think in this stage of his career he should think about ditching the high kick. He’s late on 93-94 right down the middle. This has been going on for so long that it’s not a slump thing. His reaction and recognition skills are diminishing and he needs to compensate.
Big agree. His timing mechanism has been off forever. Time to adopt the Neto toe tap
People say this every year about Mike, then he goes on a tear. Last season people were saying after the first weekend that he “couldn’t hit the fastball” then he proceeded to hit like 5 HR’s in one week.
He cant hit the fastball because they never throw him one. At least not for strikes.
Despite some questionable bullpen moves, today’s game was one of those 15 WAR Wash games where the defense ( especially the infield defense) was outstanding. If this was last year I could very well see this one getting out of control.
Schanuel has had some nice footwork around 1st, digging out and stretching.
On to play the 3-0 Cardinals, let’s clean up on them
Which is weird, because they were ranked lower than the Angels in a number of pre-season rankings.
Paris, as I suggested about a week ago would be huge for us….I said that early in the season he would win a couple games for us with late game heroics. This was one of them.
He did it without using one of those magic Yankee boat ores…..and he seems to like hitting late in ballgames, which is nice.
Are those the so-called “Torpedo Bats” ?
nostradamus!
We are one win away from a special guest appearance
Is this the day young Paris?
More of these games!
This is the day
Your life will surely change
This is the day
When things fall into place
https://youtu.be/7ZYgKCbFbWY?si=HupgvZj_WEyS2XSc
Love that fugging song.
Did yall see Nolan’s reaction after that game-winning DP? This team cares. This team believes.
Pitching is legit! It’s nice to have our 2024 All-Star go 4th in the rotation.
I would love to see Paris start at SS until Neto is back. No reason to bench Paris or Adell.
I’d rather see him at 2nd on an everyday basis once Adell is back.
I don’t want to see Newman or Anderson start ever again lol
Absolutely nothing to get excited or negative about, it’s the damn White Sox.
But we’re over .500 baby!
Anytime we’re over .500 is amazing. What a time to be alive.
Last year, we lost 2 of 3 to Baltimore and then swept the Marlins in 3. I enjoyed being 4-2 before it started to fall apart and I will do so this year as well.
Beggers can’t be chosers. We’ve been pretty impoverished the past few years. Depression era hobo with a bindle type shite.
Plane ride to the Lu soukd be fun! Paris needs to get everyday ABs. Great creative. Move him around. The Aaron Judge swing coach truthers were right!
Yippee!
Proves wash is not a very good manager. Said Paris wasn’t ready
The kid needs ABs. Especially how they struggled with RISP. Why have him make the team if they weren’t gonna give him ABs. Stop trying to make Tim Anderson happen. It’s never gonna a happen.
“Fetch” he is not.
after a win? Really 😭
I thought this was a sarcasm blog
Depends on the pitch