Bad news Angels get Swept in Ohio

May 13, 2026

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Morning Baseball is what the Angels deserve after all these years of failure. Not the fans, no, we deserve better. Frankly, with how much abuse ownership has given the fans, our demands should be pretty lengthy. I know mine are.

At least there are certain players we can root for, in a Sisyphus way. Like Detmers. A starter turned RP back to being a starter again, he has been pretty decent this season. Not what we expected way back when he was drafted, but it is the small, moral victories that we have to settle for. He went 5 and 2/3 innings, giving up 4 runs (3 earned, really should be 2 earned) on 6 hits, striking out 6 and walking 2. Left in too long/blame the defense, what could you do, the Bullpen wasn’t gonna be much better.

Not that the offense really helped. Yeah, Neto had a great day at the plate, but the team as a whole scored only 2 runs. You won’t win many games scoring only 2 runs. In fact, they scored exactly 2 runs each of the 3 games in Ohio. Huh…

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Welp, the Angels were in a hole early with a leadoff home run by the not Spiders.

0-1 Angels

And a sac fly as well

0-2 Angels

Well, the team in Ohio scored again in the 3rd, making it a 3 run deficit in a very stupidly bad Angels way that you have to see.

The Guardians manufacture their third run without a hit in the 3rd as Angel Martínez reached on a Yoán Moncada error, stole second and third, and scored on a Chase DeLauter sac fly
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Bruh

But then, the Angels were able to score 2 in the 5th thanks to Neto.

Neato

In the 6th Neto botched a ball and bloop hits led to another run allowed and it was 4-2 Cleveland.

Detmers deserves better

Ugh, the reason why I am REALLY mad they are not the Spiders is because Spiders are so cool. Like, they are red and blue anyway, think of all the Spider-Man tie ins! But nooOooo… they went with Guardians, which is a stupid word that I have trouble spelling, just like Cleveland.

Anyway, Angels tried, but failed, and lost, getting swept and such.

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Angels have the day off tomorrow, and will then host the Dodgers this weekend. The Dodgers have just lost 4 in a row by 4 or more runs, *not counting today. So watch as the Angels fix them.

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Terry

22 minutes ago

If it would take 88 wins, for example, to make the playoffs this season, the Angels would have to go 72-46 the remainder of season. That is never going to happen, thus, any thoughts, foolish or otherwise, of making playoffs are effectively over.
To reach .500 for season, they would have to go 65-53. Highly unlikely.

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Terry

26 minutes ago

Mike Trout, a tale of two seasons, this season:

His 2026 season hitting total:
43 games played
At bats: 153
Hits: 38
HR’s: 11
RBI’S: 23
Batting average: .249

However, a closer look indicates the following:

In 7 of the 43 games he has played, those games being the first 3 games of season in Houston and the 4 game series at Yankee Stadium. In those 7 games his numbers are the following:

At bats: 25
Hits: 11
HR’s: 8
RBI’S: 15
Batting average: .440

Other than those 7 games, in the other 36 games played, his Stats are:

At bats: 128
Hits: 27
HR’S: 3
RBI’S: 8
Batting Average: .210

Yes, I selected 7 games where he was phenomenal, however this shows a considerable amount of inconsistency. However, in the 36 games outside of the 7 selected, with those 36 of 43 representing 83.7% of his games played, he has had a terrible season at bat.
Not factored in was base on balls and runs scored or 33%k total.

His OBP has been very good, but a Mike Trout walking a great deal is not significant addition to the line up. The lack of overall production in the majority of games is one, but certainly far from the only reason the Angels have an inept offense. The 3 home runs and 8 rbi’s over a span of 36 games has been very bad. Those numbers extrapolate over 162 games to 13 Home runs and 38 rbi’s, with a 33% k rate.