Today Jose Soriano went up against the Guardians led by Luis L. Ortiz. Now for the video you’ve all been waiting for. Ta da! The Angels bullpen availability:
I wonder how come Kenley Jansen hasn’t thrown a pitch lately.
Anyway, this was the fielding alignment.
The Angels went three up three down in the first, but there were no strikeouts at least. Steven Kwan singled on a grounder to Kingery at second to lead off the bottom of the first. Angel Martinez grounded into a double play. That was nice of him. Jose Ramirez grounded out to first. No score after one.
In the second, Jorge Soler had a nice long at bat and ended up walking. Mike Trout lined out to third base. Logan O’Hoppe singled on the ground to left field. Jo Adell came through with an RBI line single to right. 1-0 Angels.
Scott Kingery grounded to third for a double play to end the inning. The Guardians half of the second inning was quite a bit like the Guardians half of the first inning. Still 1-0 Angels.
For the third inning, Schanuel and Ward both singled to put men at first and third with two outs for Jorge Soler. Luis L. Ortiz chipped in a throwing error to help ward make it to third. Soler grounded out to third. For the Guardians, Bo Naylor got a walk but three other guys were out to end the inning without further scoring.
The fourth and fifth innings were scoreless. Mike Trout did get a hit.
Zach Neto got caught stealing. I hope he didn’t tweak his shoulder.
The sixth inning was underwhelming. Still 1-0 Angels. Scott Kingery doubled to lead off the seventh inning. I didn’t know he had it in him. Luis Rengifo got him over to third with a groundout to first. Tim Herrin came in to replace Matt Festa on the mound. He threw a pitch ruled a passed ball to score Scott Kingery. 2-0 Angels.
Nolan Schanuel singled and Taylor Ward walked. Jorge Soler singled to center to score Schanuel. 3-0 Angels.
Mike Trout got his second StrikeTroutTM of the game to end the inning. Robert Stephenson came in to pitch in the bottom of the seventh. On his third pitch he injured himself; apparently on the biceps. Buggerall!
Now Detmers came in to pitch. He retired three men in order. On to the Eighth!
Jakob Junis came in to pitch and Logan O’Hoppe smoked an infield hit with about a 55 MPH exit velocity. Jo Adell doubled and Scott Kingery walked. All right. I know where Kingery was during the Yankees games, but where were these other guys? Do we have pod people (I’m sorry. I think they prefer the term “humanity challenged”) doing the home games? Rengifo and Neto struck out. Nolan Schanuel grounded out. Ryan Zeferjahn came in to pitch. The Guardians had a couple of LOBsters but did not score. Thank you Zeferjahn.
Taylor Ward struck out to lead off the ninth inning. Jorge Soler then homered to make it 4-0 Angels. Dude! Sweet!
After Soler, there was no further scoring by the Angels. Kenley Jansen walked Carlos Santana but Jansen got the next two outs before walking Bo Naylor. Just trying to make it interesting I guess. Nolan Jones singled to score Carlos Santana who had advanced a couple of bases on defensive indifference. 4-1 Angels. That was it. The Angels won this one 4-1. Soriano had a pretty good game.
Photo credit: Rex Fregosi
