Blown Out Postgame

August 23, 2025

Victor Mederos pitched today.

Inning 1: Nothing.

Inning 2: A Cubs leadoff hit followed by “shoulda’ been double play” throwing error by Zach Neto. Victor Mederos worked his way out of the inning with a pop up and a strikeout. The Angels were retired in order on five pitches.

Inning 3: Mederos was cruising but he gave up a two out double to the right field corner to Michael Busch. Kyle Tucker homered to right with authority. 2-0 Cubs. The Angels did nothing of note. At least Logan O’Hoppe singled.

Inning 4: Mederos started walking guys in this inning. Then he hit a guy. It cost him a grand slam to Reese McGuire. 6-0 Cubs. The Angels went down in order. They made Horton throw 11 whole pitches though.

Inning 5: Enter Ryan Zeferjahn. Kyle Tucker doubled. That was it for the Cubs. Jo Adell got a one out single. So did Luis Rengifo. Logan O’Hoppe struck out and Bryce Teodosio flied out.

Inning 6: Enter Carson Fulmer. Willi Castro singled and reached second on a wild pitch. Reese McGuire walked to put men at first and second with one out. Michael Busch singled to score Willi Castro. 7-0 Cubs. Kyle Tucker then homered to make it 10 – 0 Cubs. When does the mercy rule kick in? The Angels brought Oswald Peraza in to pinch hit for Zach Neto. He promptly struck out. Niko Kavadas drew the first Angels walk. Here we got the third strikeTrout^TM of the game. It’s OK. Ward also struck out.

Inning 7: A single and two doubles resulted in another Cubs run. 11-0 Cubs. Now we know the official Luis Garcia line. Down by eleven runs, it’s safe to bring in Luis Garcia. Rese McGuire promptly hit a sacrifice fly to put the Cubs up 12-0. Jo Adell did homer to make sure this blowout wouldn’t be a shutout.

Inning 8: Oswald Peraza came in to pitch. He was really bringing it in the mid forties. He pitched a scoreless eighth. The Angels did nothing as usual.

Inning 9: Peraza gave up a single to Justin Turner and another to Willi Castro but the Angels turned a double play behind him to end the scoreless inning. Angels= groundout + goundout + fly out to center. Angels lose 12-1.

Photo credit: Rex Fregosi

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Turk's Teeth

1 month ago

The DSL Angels were eliminated in the playoffs today in a 16-14 shootout with the Giants affiliate.

Pitching and defense were the big vulnerabilities on this year’s squad. Of the 16 runs surrendered, six were unearned due to six errors by the defense. Five DSL pitchers combined on 13 walks, 2 HBP, 3 balks and 5 wild pitches.

12 hits and 11 BBs from the Angels, so plenty of on-base traffic, but just not enough run prevention to advance this year.

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MarineLayer

1 month ago

When I look at our pathetic team and the pathetic performance last night, I still can’t get over the stupidity of our 2025 draft. With the #2 pick, Minasian goes for a guy who I will generously rank at #18, instead of Ethan Holliday or ten other guys who were still on the board, so he could spread some of Arturo’s money around on even lower ranked pitchers. This from the guy who has literally nothing to show from his all pitcher draft. Even with the Arturo handcuffs, is this the best we can do. How much longer do we want position players throwing 43 MPH fastballs in MLB games? Minasian, your brain is not bigger than every other GM and expert covering MLB. We’ve got at least five guys on this board who could do way better than you.

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Brent

1 month ago

I wonder if Rendon is even following this team. He’s living in Houston. Probably wakes up and doesn’t even remember to check the score until after he’s had his first cup of coffee.

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MarineLayer

1 month ago

Reply to Brent

Do you know the name of his nursing home?

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steelgolf

1 month ago

Reply to MarineLayer

Laz-E-Boy Convalescent.

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tanana40

1 month ago

Reply to Brent

My guess is that he does not even check the scores. We never hear about him, there is no evidence that he was with the team when they are in Houston. I assume he knows that he will be released and collect his final 37 million next year.

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MarineLayer

1 month ago

Reply to tanana40

I think they should make him sit on the bench every night in order to collect his money.

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Senator_John_Blutarsky

1 month ago

Reply to Brent

Rendon:

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FungoAle

1 month ago

Reply to Senator_John_Blutarsky

Repped!! Won’t be long until we will include Trout when talking about mummification.

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SD19

1 month ago

Seriously hate to be the guy to do this but my good buddy is a die hard A’s fan and has me on serious blast at the moment. Lead is down to 2 games and shrinking at a rapid pace to not finish in last place. By my unofficial guesstimate they will have permanently put us in the cellar by the time we crawl out of Texas next week in embarrassing fashion

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MarineLayer

1 month ago

Reply to SD19

They are already better than us at a fraction of the cost. Only one bad contract on their books, Severino.

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SD19

1 month ago

Reply to MarineLayer

Yes 100% they are better now and will be in the future. Stupid me set the bar as low as possible in literally just don’t finish last and they will even disappoint that lowest threshold

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Turk's Teeth

1 month ago

Reply to MarineLayer

And that was a deliberate addition to spend *just* enough to avoid a grievance filing from the MLBPA.

The As are a pitcher or two from achieving a winning record next season. I think they’ll be contending for the division in two years given the state of their farm and their exciting young core.

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MarineLayer

1 month ago

Reply to Turk's Teeth

And they just acquired De Vries, a top five prospect for an admittedly fine relief pitcher, but with significant injury risk.

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steelgolf

1 month ago

Reply to Turk's Teeth

Just about the time they move into their new Las Vegas digs, they will challenge for the AL West division.

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Fansince1971

1 month ago

I know I posted about this yesterday but I’m going to double down. Do the folks here at CTPGs actually enjoy the EDM festival that Angels games have become? Every organic baseball moment seems to be broken up by over-amplified sound and flashing lights. It is so loud you literally cannot converse with your neighbor. I gave up my season tickets a few years ago. When did it become this way?

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DowningDude

1 month ago

Reply to Fansince1971

We had lights flashing, fireworks and fire/flames to accompany Adell’s homer last night. Unclear if Arte was trolling us or not.

Very inappropriate celebration that was as amped up as the clinching of 2002’s WS game 7.

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Terry

1 month ago

Reply to Fansince1971

Nothing like shooting fireworks after a solo home run while down by 12 runs. I listen to the games on satellite radio. Haven’t been to the stadium in a few years. I listened to a few Dodger games from LA last season and couldn’t take the constant song bites (even between pitches), the fake noise making and most of all of it. I stopped listening. It’s the world we live in, constant stimulation required, and $17 beers.

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Fansince1971

1 month ago

Reply to Terry

“Constant stimulation and $17 beer” sums it up pretty well.

I used to enjoy going to a game with a buddy and chatting through life’s “stuff” while enjoying a hot dog and a few beers. Now it’s impossible to have a conversation during the game. Constant loud over amplified noise.

I don’t go to a rock concert to chat with a buddy. I used to go to baseball games to enjoy that. Not possible anymore.

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LanaBanana

1 month ago

Reply to Terry

Some of the stands sell Coors and Coors Light for just under $5. Smaller cans, but the beer isn’t warm before you finish it

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BannedInLA

1 month ago

Reply to LanaBanana

Smaller than 12 ounces?

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LanaBanana

1 month ago

Reply to BannedInLA

Maybe…..but 2 cans @ $4,85 each is the same amount of beer in the cans that are $17.
You don’t get all the choices, but it’s a great price if you are on a budget.

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tanana40

1 month ago

There is nothing like a 12-1 loss to teach the youngsters about meaningful games. We are still two games ahead of the A’s for last place, we will see what the boys are made of.

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Turk's Teeth

1 month ago

With today’s loss, the Angels now have the worst run differential in the American League.

To drive home the disparity between the Cubs and Angels, the Cubs have a +120 run differential and the Angels have a -87 run differential.

The Angels have only won one more game than the Athletics. It looks pretty clear where this is headed.

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Fansince1971

1 month ago

Reply to Turk's Teeth

This speaks to how relatively good the Angels pitching has been and how relatively lucky the team has been this year. If the pitching had been bad and luck even a bit worse, the team easily could be 20+ games under .500 at this point with that run deferential.

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Turk's Teeth

1 month ago

Reply to Fansince1971

And “relatively” is doing quite a bit of work there.

They have the worst walk rate in the MLB, which goes a long way toward understanding why they’re #27 in runs surrendered, runs per game and ERA.

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Senator_John_Blutarsky

1 month ago

Reply to Turk's Teeth

The Angels average 4.3 runs per game, but give up 5.0 runs a game.

The runs scored per game of 4.3 ranks 20th overall, but the runs allowed is the 4th worst in all of baseball.

The number of errors committed by the team thus far this season is 6th worse in all of baseball.

The ERA+ of the team is 90, which is 5th worst in all of baseball.

The team has struck out 1264 times thus far this season, which is the worst in all of baseball. The team OPS+ is 96, which is 4% below average. The good news: the team is tied for having hit the 4th (182) highest number of HRs thus far this season.

If you can’t pitch and you can’t catch the ball, you won’t win many games. The players on roster may have future, yet unrealized potential. However, as a team, this is simply a bad roster as currently constructed.

The Pythagorean expected win-loss record based on the number of runs scored and the number of runs allowed is 56-73. This makes our Pythagorean luck a +5.

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max

1 month ago

Reply to Senator_John_Blutarsky

‘Bad team man, bad fucking team’

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Fansince1971

1 month ago

Reply to Senator_John_Blutarsky

That +5 qualifies as very lucky this season.

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Roy Hobbs

1 month ago

Reply to Senator_John_Blutarsky

Thank you Senator, at some point the numbers don’t lie. We’re really bad at almost everything. We all would have been fired from our jobs if we performed like that. Unfortunately, we’ll likely have everyone back next year, GM, Manager, Coaching Staff, and Players. It would seem there is nothing that embarrasses or humiliates them.

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Turk's Teeth

1 month ago

Reply to Senator_John_Blutarsky

Maybe, with all these stats, we just summarize the team with the three worsiest:

Angel batters strike out more than any other MLB team.

Angel pitchers walk more opponents than any other MLB team.

Angel defenders have the worst holistic Def metric (Fangraphs) than any other MLB team.

When you’re truly awful at hitting, pitching and defense, the result is preordained.

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Senator_John_Blutarsky

1 month ago

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Turk's Teeth

1 month ago

Living’s hard and baseball’s mean, so get a little loving in between.

Can’t spell meaningful without mean, Angels fans.

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milehigh

1 month ago

Reply to Turk's Teeth

Love Grand Funk Railroad. Mean Mistreater.
Maybe our new 7th inning.

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CAoldskoll

1 month ago

Fk. Tucker is our DAD period. Was at a game last year he jacked 2hr with Astros. He’s been criticized for being in a slump yet yesterday when I was at game I told my son he owns us, sure enough hr first inning.. DADDY buried us tonight, more to come tomorrow.

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MarineLayer

1 month ago

Reply to CAoldskoll

We are the ultimate slump buster.

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Senator_John_Blutarsky

1 month ago

Reply to MarineLayer

“Ultimate slump-buster” runner-up:

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BannedInLA

1 month ago

Reply to MarineLayer

Unless you play in Chaves Ravine….

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DowningDude

1 month ago

Fun fact: Yankees lost at home by the same score. The unfinished business is copying the Yankees.

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DowningDude

1 month ago

I can’t believe the parking lot masturbator hit a grand slam. Unwanted icing on our shit cake.

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DowningDude

1 month ago

Fun fact: Horton didn’t throw a taken ball until his 23rd pitch.

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DowningDude

1 month ago

Woof. Terrible dodgers like crowd on hand. Screaming Cubs fan brats and parents nowhere to be found.

Horrible ballpark experience.

Highlight was Peraza’s pitching. He got a standing ovation from me.

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LanaBanana

1 month ago

I was at the game tonight. I used to like the Cubs but I don’t anymore. Their fans are obnoxious and rude. Worst fans I’ve ever seen. If I went to an Angels game at Wrigley, I would never behave like they did.

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Fansince1971

1 month ago

Reply to LanaBanana

Cubs fans = RedSox fans = Dodgers fans. They make Yankees fans seem knowledgeable and tolerable.

Ps – if you acted like they do in Anaheim at Wrigley you might get a beer dumped on you. Definitely peanuts thrown at you.

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DowningDude

1 month ago

Reply to LanaBanana

I wrote mine before I read yours. Insufferable crowd tonight. The Cubs fans were terrible. I shudda brought my Mom’s wooden spoon to discipline some of the rug rats even though it’s been retired and banned since the early 80’s.

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LanaBanana

1 month ago

Reply to DowningDude

Where were your seats?

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DowningDude

1 month ago

Reply to LanaBanana

403

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LanaBanana

1 month ago

Reply to DowningDude

I was in right field in 236

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MarineLayer

1 month ago

Meaningful baseball was not played. Thanks again, Arturo and Minasian.

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DowningDude

1 month ago

Reply to MarineLayer

Really need to know what Arte’s “unfinished business” is. Unless it’s settling this Titanic at the bottom of the ocean as he’s doing a good job of that.