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LA Angels Wednesday News Crash: 4-13

May 6, 2026

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The Angels FINALLY won another game last night. It was only their 4th win since GA’s passing, and first win in a 9 inning game since APRIL 22ND. The Angels are 4-13 in their last 17 games.

Anyone who went prolly got a great deal. Some tickets went for 3 dollars.

Series finale vs the White Sox this afternoon, and the White Sox already won the season series. Urena is going for the Angels as the worst team in Baseball tries to win their first series since the April 10-12 series at the Reds.

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In funny news, the Dodgers have gone 3-11 in the last 14 regular season Ohtani starts. Tungsten Arm Indeed…

Jon Bois at Secret Base is documenting the history of mound charges and episodes 1 and 2 are out on Youtube. He notices that they do not happen much anymore, is that a good or a bad thing?

Anyway, in an unrelated note, Gerrit Cole beaned a guy who hit a home run off of him in a rehab start. Didn’t get mound charged at all…

There was a bench clearing non fight with the Tigers and Red Sox when Valdez drills Trevor Story. Valdez really isn’t liked anywhere, huh?

Check swing challenges are happening in the minors. What do you think of them?

Anything I missed? Post below for upvotes!

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Pineapple12

16 minutes ago

Perry is such a loser
LMAOOOOOOOOO 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Angels transactions:
•Reinstated RHP Alek Manoah from injured list
•Following last night’s game, LHP Sam Aldegheri was optioned to Triple-A Salt Lake

https://x.com/i/status/2052071862574919718

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PedroCerrano

34 minutes ago

Valdez: Very hot headed with a huge cranium that no hat could fit. Clearly steroids have been removed from the game.

https://youtu.be/xybLWdP119A?si=-UiXlW3EZjEzyHgi

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Angels2020Champs

55 minutes ago

Ted Turner passed away. In a weird way, I became an Angels fan because of him.

My friends and I would play neighborhood baseball and be able to watch Braves games together on TBS in the very early 90s. The whole worst to first team. They were fun and we could watch and play baseball together. The dodgers and angels came on much later when we were all home and it was more dinner time and bed time than watch TV.

In 2nd grade our school went to an after school field trip of sorts at dodger stadium to see the braves v dodgers. The game was 2-1 and we all were rooting for any offense, including from the braves! That didn’t sit too well with the locals and they decided to heckle some 8 year olds. I told my dad about it when we got home and he took me to an angels game shortly after and we had a bunch of fun.

TLDR Turner’s braves were fun and I could watch early as a youngster, dodgers fans dodgered, & an angels gameday experience made me a fan.

Last edited 54 minutes ago by Angels2020Champs

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Roy Hobbs

1 hour ago

With Peraza and Grissom sitting a lot these days, we only have 2 players in the line up who are actually hitting (Trout and Soler). Neto is the only other player regularly in the line up whose OPS+ is over 100 and he’s only at 103 because of his HR last night. We’re a way worse hitting team right now than even last year.

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BannedInLA

1 hour ago

Reply to Roy Hobbs

I know it’s easy to critique roster moves in hindsight, but, damn, the numbers that Taylor Ward, Brandon Marsh and Mickey Moniak are posting are difficult to ignore.

Particularly when you consider that our catcher is injured (and sucked prior to that), the pitcher we traded for has yet to..you know, pitch and the LF we traded for is an absolute void in the lineup.

Last edited 1 hour ago by BannedInLA

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Roy Hobbs

1 hour ago

Reply to BannedInLA

True. And it doesn’t help that Adell, Schanuel, and Neto have all been struggling so far at the same time.

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MarineLayer

1 hour ago

Reply to Roy Hobbs

Mostly a terrible approach by our hitters. Anderson seems useless. More Minasian badness.

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Pineapple12

1 hour ago

Reply to BannedInLA

Moniak move was the most shortsighted of the bunch. Let’s review why he was he DFAd —

Perry traded for Soler to occupy the DH spot. A dumb move that has had no impact whatsoever on this team winning. We still had enough room to roster Trout, Ward, Adell, and Moniak. Perry fell for Paris’ hot ST and decided that the natural infielder would take the backup outfielder role because Jo and Mickey apparently couldn’t co-exist any longer.

As we all know Paris was short-lived and sent back to the minors (currently in AA), Trout AND Soler got injured, and we ended up giving OF starts to Lamont Wade Jr., Campero, Lugo, Chris Taylor.

Perry did well trading Thor for Mickey. Perry then dumped Mickey for no good reason. Perry is a fucking moron.

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smithy610

55 minutes ago

Reply to Pineapple12

You know, with Mickey, I don’t think it’s all Perry. For some reason he also just ended up on Wash’ doghouse. Wash made this flippant comment about telling Mickey “you’re not the kind of hitter who hit 14 HRs last year. You’re the kind of hitter who’s more gap-to-gap power than HR power.” I think that messed up his juju. Here’s a kid who just became an everyday player the season before, played well enough, and then was suddenly told “you’re not that kind of hitter, screw that.” From that point he started flailing, wasn’t playing everyday, wasn’t getting consistent reps, and so I wasn’t surprised Perry eventually rid of him.

I’ve always liked Mickey. Yes his platoon splits are bad but it’s not like our LH hitters are doing hot right now. Remember there was a time he was protecting Trout in the lineup! When Aaron Boone was asked why he didn’t walk Trout in one game, he actually said “well that guy behind him is batting .330” And it wasn’t Shohei. It was Mickey.

And now Wash is gone and Perry most likely too. Really good tag team of talent evaluators there.

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Pineapple12

49 minutes ago

Reply to smithy610

Good point re: Wash’s comments, but Perry didn’t have to cut Mickey before the season started.

Trout got injured so early that Mickey would have gotten back in the starting lineup and remained there all season. There was no pressure to dump him and that’s on Perry

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FungoAle

1 hour ago

Afternoon game today, Walbert going up against 6’10” LH Noah Schultz, both talented young arms. Noah has had a couple of shutdown games against inferior teams, that’s what we are. Need to be patient, make him throw strikes. Moncada sure to ride the pine today against this Randy Johnson slinger type. Chi-Sox slight favorite -115. Grab your beers and peanuts.

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AnAngelsFan

2 hours ago

I watched the game last night. I know the Angels won 4-3. And yet, when I read the headline, I had a moment of panic that the blowpen gave up 10 runs in the 9th to lose 4-13. It took a moment to remember I watched the final out.

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Pineapple12

3 hours ago

Trout is 4th amongst all position players with 2.2 WAR, Soriano is 1st for pitchers with 2.3 WAR, and the Angels are 9 games under .500.

It’s like we took a time machine back to 2016 😂

Last edited 3 hours ago by Pineapple12

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steelgolf

1 hour ago

Reply to Pineapple12

2916 has been a long, long, long, long year.

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Angels2020Champs

3 hours ago

Nothing good to see here, we are #27 and talk about Trout

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/48678810/mlb-2026-stock-watch-change-dodgers-yankees-braves-cubs

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Angels2020Champs

3 hours ago

Sure nice to see Trout and Neto show up for the home fans!!

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WallyChuckChili

4 hours ago

Lucchessi is back with the team on a minor league deal.

Kirby Yates has been activated.
Saucedo optioned.

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Senator_John_Blutarsky

4 hours ago

Reply to WallyChuckChili

Perry is eco-friendly and continually recycles his waste.

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HalosFanForLife

3 hours ago

Reply to Senator_John_Blutarsky

It’s sure looking like an intentional tanking.

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Senator_John_Blutarsky

3 hours ago

Reply to HalosFanForLife

He does it without thinking – it’s pure muscle memory after so many years of losing.

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Biggiswrth

2 hours ago

Reply to WallyChuckChili

So does Yates and the eventual addition of Joyce fix our bullpen or are we still a broken mess?

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Pineapple12

2 hours ago

Reply to Biggiswrth

Yates’ fastball averaged 90 in his rehab appearances. He’s more likely washed than not.

Bullpen’s success will depend on the younger relievers — Joyce, Bachman, Silseth, Zeferjahn, Fermin, and eventually Najer Victor

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BannedInLA

1 hour ago

Reply to Pineapple12

I’ve noticed that Silseth rarely pitches one full inning during his appearances (16 appearances / 11.1 innings). It’s often just one out. Given our dearth of options, you would think that the manager would have him go a bit longer with each appearance.

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Pineapple12

1 hour ago

Reply to BannedInLA

The way we’ve deployed Silseth has been weird. I agree and would like to see more of him. I’ll never forget that stretch in 2023 where he looked like an ace and then got taken down by a Trey Cabbage laser beam to the head

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MarineLayer

1 hour ago

Reply to Pineapple12

I forgot. The Trey Cabbage era was awesome.

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Pineapple12

54 minutes ago

Reply to MarineLayer

For those who don’t remember. I forgot the unfortunate incident happened because O’Hoppe is the dumbest catcher of all time and threw an ill advised throw to begin with

https://www.mlb.com/video/chase-silseth-ball-to-daniel-vogelbach-aeguuc-x0955