Got Swept Postgame

August 24, 2025

This one the good guys were winning for a couple of innings, thanks to a Taylor Ward homer in the first inning.

The Cubs pecked away in the third and fourth innings to make it 2-1 Cubs.

In the fifth inning, Michael Busch singled, Kyle Tucker walked, and Seiya Suzuki also singled. Andrew Chafin came in to pitch for Kyle Hendricks and Pete Crow-Armstrong hit a sacrifice fly to make it 3-1 Cubs. Carson Kelly singled. 4-1 Cubs.

In the sixth inning, the Angels mounted some offense. Zach Neto singled and stole second base before Mike Trout struck out. (Ahem.) Taylor Ward doubled. 4-2 Angels.

Jo Adell grounded out while sending Taylor Ward to third. Luis Rengifo reached on a fielding error by Dansby Swanson. 4-3 Cubs.

Bryce Teodosio made a nice catch.

In the bottom of the ninth, the Angels tried a little rally. Luis Rengifo singled, Yoan Moncada got a one out walk. Christian Moore struck out. So did Bryce Teodosio. Game over. Angels lost by a final score of 4-3.

Photo credit: Rex Fregosi

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Eric_in_Portland

17 hours ago

I just saw a clip of Cal Raleigh hitting his 49th HR and the Mariners’ announcer was pretty excited, calling it a once in a lifetime moment. I guess that’s true if you’re 3 years old or less since he broke the record setv4 years ago.

Short version: I hate the Mariners , their announcers and their fans

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

15 hours ago

Reply to Eric_in_Portland

Dodgers. Yankees. Mariners. Childhood Cancer. In that order.

Other than that, and Stevie Nicks, life’s pretty tolerable.

Last edited 15 hours ago by gitchogritchoffmypettis

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Phil

13 hours ago

Reply to Eric_in_Portland

Raleigh just signed for 6 years (2025-2030) @ $105M, all guaranteed.
That works out to $17M/yr, making him 3rd highest paid catcher (Realmuto, of the Phillies, averages $23M/yr).
And, in the last year of the contract, he’ll be 34-y/o (Trout is 34 now).

Darn good signing by the Mariners.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

20 hours ago

It’s not that the team is crap. I knew that in March. I don’t mind that, everything that gets good starts out shitty. But another year of doing NOTHING to get better other than a little more grit this time around? And we know we are basically running back the same squad next year? More watching for Trout’s mid-level mile stones? Counting the saves Jansen gets at the ass end of his career?

I really like Nolan, Neto, O’Hoppe and Adell. If I squint I can see them as a future core. But I’d also like to trade them and Ward/Detmers and burn it all down with a new owner if I could order that up. And fk team. New uniforms? For the love of god. Having visited a few other teams this year and then ended at the Big A… fking RED. How do we have more stupid ass red shit than THE REDS?

Just burn the whole thing down. Fk 2002. All the member berries all over the stadium are pathetic. Trade Trout too for what ever you can get. Burn all of it. Hoffy? even our hot dogs are off brand trash. Please. Alaz Khan. Bless this org with your light and cleansing flame.

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Roy Hobbs

20 hours ago

Reply to gitchogritchoffmypettis

It’s almost enough to drive you to the WNBA.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

20 hours ago

Reply to Roy Hobbs

Please. NFL. Save me.

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Phil

13 hours ago

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Those players are out for blood when it comes to Caitlin Clarke and Sophie Cunningham.
Players will hit these two, smile after committing the fouls, and then laugh about it while sitting on the bench.

Some of the fouls are just flat out intentional.

You’d think the WNBA executives would do something about it.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

6 hours ago

Reply to Phil

Ummmm. WNBA. It’s all good clean fun.

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Jim Atkins

19 hours ago

Reply to gitchogritchoffmypettis

Notre Dame football starts next week so I do have some reason to live.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

18 hours ago

Reply to Jim Atkins

It’s real nice that ND Football has been good again for a while now. ‘Merica.

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TrojanBoiler

15 hours ago

Reply to gitchogritchoffmypettis

This is the worst thing you’ve ever said on this site

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TrojanBoiler

15 hours ago

Reply to Jim Atkins

I just threw up in my mouth a little bit

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

21 hours ago

I did almost seven hours of driving to get heat exhaustion and watch last nights awesome game so I barely listened to todays game. I was all wrung out from all the puking. I’m guessing I’ll wait another few years till I bother with that shit again…. or maybe I’ll just get into the WNBA, God knows the sports media really wants me to give it a try. Probably more exciting too.

Being kind of out of it, must have missed all the meaningful huzzahs and victory fist punching when Ward got his 30th HR. Watching Mike Trout in person made me a little more suspicious that Mike Trout’s not very good anymore.

Pitchers are still dropping like flies. Wheeler. Montas. Is Michael King back yet? Mederos is out now. Sheesh.

Well, at least we had that Doyer sweep. I can hold onto that for the next three years of 70 win teams since it’s what we got by standing pat for the meaningful push. Rad.

Let’s go Royals, Reds, Padres, Brewers, Tigers and all teams not Doyers and Yankees.

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Roy Hobbs

20 hours ago

Reply to gitchogritchoffmypettis

Sorry to hear about your being under the weather. Hope you feel better quickly. i look forward to seeing you in the WNBA once you’ve recovered.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

20 hours ago

Reply to Roy Hobbs

All it took was some AC and water. But I still hear the lingering call…. like screeching lesbians in the night…. the song of sub-par basketball action in the summer…. someone make it stop.

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Angelz4ever

20 hours ago

Reply to gitchogritchoffmypettis

WNBA!? Dang man, is it terminal?

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

20 hours ago

Reply to Angelz4ever

I need that football season to start. The draft and trade deadline broke me as far as giving two shits about the Angels. Having a farm that’s not really worth watching makes things a lot harder. Now it’s the dog days where the younger players I like kind of peter out.

It’s like 1;45 AM in a dive bar. The WNBA gets more attractive.

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Fansince1971

22 hours ago

Just to put things in perspective, but for the +5 games in the lucky column this year, this team would be:

56-74

That would be a .430 winning percentage which translates to 69 wins. That is probably closer to what this team realistically is : ie 70 wins. Last year was a remarkably unlucky year.

I can buy into Turk’s 74 win theory.

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Turk's Teeth

21 hours ago

Reply to Fansince1971

Honestly, not even a theory, least of all mine. It’s just a simple average of seasonal wins in the post-Dipoto era.

If you think last year was an exception, then 76 wins is an average post-Dipoto season. If you think last year isn’t necessarily an outlier to be thrown out, then 74 is now an average season.

Where I’ll depart from simple math, and hazard an opinion, is to say that I think any fan who views the current season as ‘progress’ is simply eager to be gaslit and involved in willing self-deception.

When failure is so consistent for a decade that each annual result remains +/- 4 games around the mean, it’s something notable. The narrative of progress is a ruse. 2021-23 is right around the corner.

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Turk's Teeth

21 hours ago

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My inflection point for change is the point at which the team strings together two consecutive seasons of 82 wins or better – as that would depart from a stretch that is becoming almost generational in duration.

And my definition of a “competitive” window is two consecutive seasons of 85+ win teams, as that’s typically the threshold for wild card contention, and is also coincidentally the last winning season (85-77) that the Angels experienced – the last under a GM with a cumulative winning record.

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Angelz4ever

20 hours ago

Reply to Fansince1971

LOL @ “Lucky column,” baseball is so full of lucky it’s hilarious.

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CAoldskoll

23 hours ago

At least I went to the best game in the series on Friday. I got the free cheap plastic toy of OHoppe-less.

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Terry

23 hours ago

Another losing season. I will also remember 6-0 against the Doyers, the six best games of the season. The ones at Anaheim Stadium were amazing, of course, our boys then flop to 2-7 since. Thanks for the memories.

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Terry

23 hours ago

What in the world has happened to Trout? Seriously, has he had a vision exam? It’s sad, an amazing talent, the best the Angels will probably ever have again.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

21 hours ago

Reply to Terry

He’s getting strait up owned by rookies and fastball dependent scrubs while he begs the gods for walks or a pitch that runs into his bat. It’s just sad.

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Roy Hobbs

23 hours ago

On pace to win maybe 77 games. Back to normal as Turk would say.

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Turk's Teeth

23 hours ago

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At the team’s current winning percentage, the team is on pace for 76 wins, which is the exact mean number of wins of all full Angels seasons between 2016-2023. So yep, dead on target.

(Emphasis ‘dead’.)

If you include the one anomalous year of 2024, the mean # of wins becomes 74. They’d just have to go 13-19 down the final stretch to nail it.

Seems perfectly achievable for the team to establish a new normal of 74 wins in the Eppler-Minasian era.

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Roy Hobbs

23 hours ago

Reply to Turk's Teeth

I rounded up. 🙂

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Roy Hobbs

23 hours ago

Reply to Roy Hobbs

The problem is that right now, we’re losing 2 out of every 3 so we may not get there.

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steelgolf

23 hours ago

Reply to Roy Hobbs

I think I predicted 72 to 74 or maybe 76, but definitely shy of .500

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Roy Hobbs

22 hours ago

Reply to steelgolf

You were right on

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

21 hours ago

Reply to Roy Hobbs

The problem is the Orioles are 1 game back of us and the A’s and Twins are 2 back. Talk about meaningful games.

If we ever hire a GM and gas the C Suite he’s gonna need to consider a horrific tear down still. Trade Neto and anything else with value. It’s a shitty thing to consider. But even more shitty is to think about things like the fact that we need a new stadium and TV deal and we stink.

It’s time to start weighing the trade off of sucking like this through 2027 BUT that being enough suck to convince Arte his business is done here.

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Roy Hobbs

20 hours ago

Reply to gitchogritchoffmypettis

The heat is definitely affecting you. 🙂

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Eric_in_Portland

22 hours ago

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so competitive in terms of matching Angels seasons

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Turk's Teeth

21 hours ago

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That’s the problem. I think management and ownership have indeed convinced themselves that a 72-80 win season is competitive. Basically the minimum viable product (MVP) – just enough to keep butts in seats.

When Arte says he has unfinished business, mark his words – they’re not chosen randomly. It’s business.

The goal is not to win the game, it’s simply to succeed while trying – make a profit and raise franchise valuations. It’s all business on the margins – he’s not preoccupied with on-field success, otherwise things would have changed radically some time ago.

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Roy Hobbs

20 hours ago

Reply to Turk's Teeth

That’s my take as well.

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Senator_John_Blutarsky

23 hours ago

Only a few more weeks until the 2025 version of “Halo Crapfest” is over.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

21 hours ago

Reply to Senator_John_Blutarsky

Time for another September of watching football, watching other baseball teams, and then watching the play offs.

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MH252525

23 hours ago

This team sucks. Arte is the worst. Perry isn’t much further behind. At least we got like 5 HS arms in the draft which the Angels have shown very little ability to develop.

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steelgolf

23 hours ago

Reply to MH252525

And a reliever in the 2nd round!!

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MarineLayer

22 hours ago

Reply to MH252525

Could’ve had Ethan Holliday. Minasian is a fool.

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steelgolf

23 hours ago

Standing most at the deadline was definitely the right call!!! Nice job Perry, they should be in last place by the end of the week!!!! Stand pat, stand pat. WWEWWWH baby!!!!

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MH252525

23 hours ago

Reply to steelgolf

yea like give Perry any decision to make, he’s 100% going to make the wrong one every single time.

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FungoAle

23 hours ago

Reply to steelgolf

He owed it to the guys

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steelgolf

23 hours ago

Reply to FungoAle

🤪🤪🤪 Damn, I forgot all about that gem.

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MarineLayer

22 hours ago

Reply to FungoAle

Let em play meaningful baseball.

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MarineLayer

22 hours ago

Reply to steelgolf

DFA Minasian.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

21 hours ago

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This team needs a new owner, new FO and about 75% of it’s fans to head off the trail and die quietly. Then it needs about 18 roster spots upgraded and a new farm with at least two of those teams relocated. That’s all, then we’ll be at least as good as the Rangers.

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Roy Hobbs

20 hours ago

Reply to gitchogritchoffmypettis

That would be a good start.

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gitchogritchoffmypettis

20 hours ago

Reply to Roy Hobbs

What if we tried being The BizzaroDogers? Like the Dodgers but red? Find some scummy old money family to buy the team at the head of some group called Sportzfun Corp Inc and let AI run the team? Have no FO. Just a bank of computers?

I’m down to try it.