Pissedgame Loss

Today’s Angels Fielding lineup:

Ryan Goins managed again today. Ray Montgomery has been at a funeral.

Inning 1:

Mike Trout struck out. So did Yoan Moncada. Taylor Ward grounded out to the shortstop. Randy Arozarena singled and Cal Raleigh homered to make it 2-0 Mariners. Julio Rodriguez grounded out. Josh Naylor popped out. Jorge Polanco doubled but Eugenio Suarez grounded out to end the inning.

Inning 2:

Jo Adell grounded out to short. Christian Moore struck out. Logan Davidson struck out looking. Dominic Canzone struck out. Leo Rivas walked. J.P Crawford but Leo Rivas stole second on the same pitch. Randy Arozarena also struck out.

Inning 3:

Denzer Guzman struck out. So did Sebastian Rivero. So did Bryce Teodosio. Cal Raliegh got an infield single to third. Julio Rodriguez lined one to left center. It was enough to score Cal Raleigh all the way from first. Admittedly Christian Moore should have gotten the assist with his rather bad throw. Julio Rodriguez stole third. He was initially called out but the review went in his favor. Josh Naylor popped one out to center that brought in Rodriguez. 4-0 Mariners. Jorge Polanco doubled again. Eugenio Suarez struck out but Dominic Canzone singled in another run. 5-0 Mariners. Leo Rivas struck out to end the inning.

Inning 4:

We had our second strikeTroutTM of the game. Yoan Moncada hit a low liner to first for the second out. Taylor Ward struck out. J.P. Crawford singled. Randy Arozarena struck out. Cal Raleigh walked. Julio Rodriguez doubled in another run. 6-0 Mariners. Josh Naylor singled in two more. 8-0 Mariners. Enter Connor Brogdon. Jorge Polanco got his third double of the game. Eugenio Suarez struck out and Dominic Canzone singled to make it 10-0 Mariners. Leo Rivas walked. J.P. Crawford doubled to make it 11-0 Mariners. Randy Arozarena grounded out to Moore at second.

Inning 5:

Jo Adell flied out to right. Christian Moore homered to put the Angels on the board. 11-1 Mariners.

Logan Davidson struck out, again. Denzer Guzman got his first major league hit. Sebastian Rivero flied out to center. Jose Urena came in to pitch and got Cal Raleigh to fly out. Victor Robles singled. Josh Naylor singled on the ground through to center. Jorge Polanco grounded into a double play.

Inning 6:

Bryce Teodosio and Mike Trout both struck out. Oswald Peraza homered. 11-2 Mariners.

Taylor Ward struck out looking. Eugenio Suarez popped out in the vicinity of home plate. Dominic Canzone doubled. Leo Rivas walked but J.P Crawford hit into a double play to end the inning.

Inning 7:

Jo Adell struck out for the fourteenth Angels strikeout. Emerson Hancock came in to face Christian Moore. Moore smoke a ball to third for the first out. Christian Moore also lined out to third. Logan Davidson struck out looking on a pitch right down the middle to end the inning. Randy Arozarena flied out to very shallow center. Cal Raleigh grounded out softly to the pitcher. Victor Robles reached on a catching error by Logan Davidson. Josh Naylor struck out swinging.

Inning 8:

Denzer Guzman singled on a grounder through to center. Sebastian Rivero struck out. Bryce Teodosio popped out to first. Mike Trout flied out to right field. Logan Davidson came in to pitch. Oswald Peraza was playing first. Luis Rengifo was playing third. Jorge Polanco flied out to left. Eugenio Suarez struck out. LOL! Dominic Canzone popped out to third. Obviously the Angels needed to start Davidson over Hendricks.

Inning 9:

Casey Legumina came in to pitch. Oswald Peraza walked. Taylor Ward struck out to win the all time MLB record for most strikeouts in a four game series. Jo Adell hit into a force out. Christian Moore also struck out for the 18th strikeout of the game for the Angels.

Photo credit: Rex Fregosi

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Terry
Trusted Member
1 hour ago

Just to think, if baseball has a work stoppage, the Angels will be tied for first.

2027 can’t get here fast enough.

Terry
Trusted Member
1 hour ago

All kidding aside. the Angels just got passed by a team with a $73 million payroll, who play in a minor league park drawing 9 000 people per game, and equal amount of mosquitoes

On second thought, it’s very funny.

Terry
Trusted Member
1 hour ago

I don’t think it’s true, but the rumors are next season MLB, in order to give the Angels a fighting chance, the new rule will be all opposing pitchers will have to pitch using the opposite arm they normally pitch with, and further, opposing teams will be prohibited from ever going to their bullpen, their bullpen gates will be padlocked.

Terry
Trusted Member
1 hour ago

I’ll be damned, Kelloggs just announced the 2025 Angels team photo will be on one of their cereal boxes….Special K.

Kelloggs is waiting for the team to provide the photo…there are so many players in it, the photo has to be taken from the space station.

MarineLayer
Legend
1 hour ago

Not to make a joke, but Monty was not the only one who attended a funeral, there was one today in Seattle.

Terry
Trusted Member
1 hour ago
Reply to  MarineLayer

Sooo true. Buried another season.

Turk's Teeth
Editor
Super Member
2 hours ago

Dylan Jordan struggling tonight in Game One of the Cal League finals.

Only two runs through five (one earned), but that masks some real wildness – six walks against one K – including three walks in a row in the fourth inning. If not for three very well-timed GIDPs, the Giants would have broken this game wide open.

I think the 66ers are still very much in this game, but tough outing for DJ this evening.

Turk's Teeth
Editor
Super Member
2 hours ago
Reply to  Turk's Teeth

And just like that, Raudi Rodriguez hits a giant two RBI HR to left center, and the 66ers are ahead 3-2.

Turk's Teeth
Editor
Super Member
1 hour ago
Reply to  Turk's Teeth

Like Jordan, it’s not Ubaldo’s night either – he’s getting some whiffs, but the command isn’t there, and he’s been challenging some guys right down the middle, and the Giants haven’t missed.

Giants 4-3 now. Feels like the road day has the team off their games a bit – both pitchers struggling to locate consistently.

max
Trusted Member
max
3 hours ago

Kudos to the headline Mr. Sutton. Perfect.

DowningDude
Legend
2 hours ago
Reply to  max

He had already thought it up in the gamethread and even inspired me:
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Eric_in_Portland
Legend
4 hours ago

boy oh boy….2021 all pitchers. Where are they now? 2023, no Ohtani trade. 2024-25 off-season, sign Soler, Kikuchi (ok), Newman, Hendricks, Jansen (1 year), Moncada (1 year), trade nobody. 2025 draft, skip over Kade Anderson, 2025 deadline, nothing.

I expect we’ll be “competitive” in 2026.

Roy Hobbs
Super Member
4 hours ago

Have another beer my friend.

steelgolf
Legend
4 hours ago

Soler is still a big head scratcher for me.

Roy Hobbs
Super Member
3 hours ago
Reply to  steelgolf

In and of itself the Soler acquisition was not bad, he had a 120 OPS+ last year, it just made no sense with our roster. Not having the foresight or understanding to leave Adell in RF and have Trout DH from day 1 was just inexcusable. Next year, there should be no confusion, if Adell is still here, he plays RF and Trout DHs. Quit trying to plug holes and start building a team.

Turk's Teeth
Editor
Super Member
3 hours ago
Reply to  Roy Hobbs

They were building around Trout’s ego, not simply building the best team they could.

Turk's Teeth
Editor
Super Member
3 hours ago
Reply to  steelgolf

Even at the time, while I thought the team needed pitching more than power, I at least saw a rationale in the exchange. That rationale evaporated when it became clear that they planned to transform Trout into an everyday right fielder, and move their GG finalist right fielder to centerfield, resulting in a defensive alignment every bit as bad as if Soler played the field himself.

If the Soler trade was a prelude to moving Trout to LF as a one-year transition plan to DH, and subsequently trading Ward for pitching, a viable positional player or other usable prospects, that had some logic to it. But that wasn’t remotely the plan.

Roy Hobbs
Super Member
2 hours ago
Reply to  Turk's Teeth

That was my point, they either have no plan or the one they have just isn’t well thought out.

Turk's Teeth
Editor
Super Member
2 hours ago
Reply to  Roy Hobbs

Not well thought out at all, nope.

steelgolf
Legend
2 hours ago
Reply to  Turk's Teeth

I didn’t like the high K rate of Soler. For a team that already strikes out a lot.

Roy Hobbs
Super Member
1 hour ago
Reply to  steelgolf

Valid point, they have too many guys that do the same thing.

Turk's Teeth
Editor
Super Member
1 hour ago
Reply to  steelgolf

I saw a guy with an 11-12% walk rate and a K rate under 25% three of the last four seasons, which is pretty par for the course for a power hitter.

It may be hard to recall now, but the 2024 Angels were not the power-over-hit team that the 2025 Angels are – they were 25th in ISO and 22nd in HRs. In terms of K% they were middle of the pack – 12th in strikeouts overall. Seattle outwhiffed them by 200+ Ks.

If you were already anticipating that they’d have a historically bad K-rate, you were quite the fortune-teller in the offseason. 🙂

In the offseason, I saw a team that badly needed to improve their pitching and defense, with a secondary need to improve their positional power. They did the latter – though largely by just letting their homegrown players swing away – but did little to improve the rest.

Eric_in_Portland
Legend
4 hours ago

Am I reading this right?? The Twins struck out 1654 times a couple of years ago. We’re at 1496. That’s 158 short of tying the record. 12 games left so we have to average a little over 13 per game. I think we’ll come up about 40 short

Terry
Trusted Member
1 hour ago

I say Halos break record. The Brewers pitchers should have a field day.

FungoAle
Legend
4 hours ago

And the A’s take 4th today. Honestly, I want the Halos to finish out in 5th. Just hoping that might fuel the old man Arte to wake up and fire the GM and coaching staff. It is going to take a lot more than remodeling the weight room in Arizona to turn this around.

MarineLayer
Legend
4 hours ago

Trout avoids the golden sombrero in his final AB. Hopium for those who partake.

steelgolf
Legend
4 hours ago
Reply to  MarineLayer

Hopium for a fly out, this is where we are now as a fan base.

MarineLayer
Legend
1 hour ago
Reply to  steelgolf

It really is hard to believe Trout is so washed up at 34. Didn’t Bonds reboot at 38 with the steroids, leading to historic tainted records. We know Mike is clean.

MarineLayer
Legend
4 hours ago

Even UCLA fired their pathetic Coach. We have similar options available. Cmon Arturo, do it!

Terry
Trusted Member
4 hours ago
Reply to  MarineLayer

How about issuing cricket bats?

steelgolf
Legend
4 hours ago
Reply to  Terry

This team would swing them sideways.

FungoAle
Legend
4 hours ago
Reply to  MarineLayer

Sweep out the barn

Terry
Trusted Member
4 hours ago

Please change the stadium name to a more fitting one: The Big K.

DowningDude
Legend
4 hours ago
Reply to  Terry

Briliant!

FungoAle
Legend
5 hours ago

A pisser indeed. Perry and the Angels bent over and need to forgo getting paid. You guys still empathetic towards the GM?

Historical franchise lowness.

Terry
Trusted Member
5 hours ago

Fire the manager, first rule under new manager:

Everyone bunts, everytime up.

Terry
Trusted Member
5 hours ago

Look at the glass half full, only three runners left on base.

DowningDude
Legend
5 hours ago
Reply to  Terry

Lobster would be a nice change from this K-fest.

Jeff Joiner
Editor
Legend
5 hours ago

18ks against 4 hits isn’t a good ratio.

FungoAle
Legend
4 hours ago
Reply to  Jeff Joiner

The 2025 Mantra

DowningDude
Legend
5 hours ago

first time in MLB history that a team has been struck out 13 or more times by the starter in back-to-back games.

DowningDude
Legend
5 hours ago
steelgolf
Legend
5 hours ago

18 K’s and a new strike out record for a 4 game series , Angels Baseball!!! It’s Craptastic!!!!

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