Cardinals are birds. They are also high ranking members of the Catholic Church. Both should be below Angels in these type of things. Yet the Cards have had the much better time. Not even just recently either. At least we got the Rams back from St. Louis.
Seriously though, they got the most out of Pujols, traded their WS star to the Angels right when he became useless, and got double the WS wins and many more appearances in just the time since the Angels won it in 2002. Man I hate them and their smug fanbase.
Anyway, Soriano was on the bump tonight. He went 7 innings giving up 2 runs on 4 hits striking out 7 and walking 1. I’ll take that. What I won’t take is this broadcast. I mean come on ESPN, remember who you are. Or… Were… Ughh.
I also hate this hitting yet another game of 2 or fewer runs. And the 1 run through 8 was a solo home run. Because again we cannot have nice pitching and good hitting at the same time. This team is infuriating.
Highlighted Recap
Cards struck first with 2 in the 2nd.
But Jo Adell launched one in the 3rd to cut the lead in half.
Did the Angels have bad luck? Maybe. Meckler pinch hit and lined it right into the glove at 1B. How was that not a double play?
But hey, the bullpen pitched 2 scoreless innings. It wasn’t their fault for the loss tonight. Cards bullpen however just blew a 7 run lead yesterday. And blew a 1 run lead tonight!
They load out up vs Adell and then hit him. HOLY FREAKING CRAP THE ANGELS WIN ON A WALK OFF HIT BY PITCH!
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2 more vs the Cards and then off to SF.
The Angels didn’t trade for Pujols. They signed him as a free agent.
I was referring to David Freese with that one
The NFL knows the structure of the universe.
The Arizona Cardinals are indeed lower than the Angels.
WIN STREAK!!
Credit to Adell for properly using a challenge in a situation that called for it.
He was on it tonight. Wouldn’t mind seeing a little hot streak from him to boost that value.
Sell it all! Sell everything!
Everything ? Don’t you mean “give away” everything ? Like in yardsale. That would be just stupid….
We have a lot of in demand items. No bargains. Only trade if you get value.
I would agree with that statement. I would amend it a little by saying not just “get value”, but don’t trade unless we clearly WIN the trade. No trades just for trades sake.
I was glad to hear that Mozeliak expressed these sentiments in his interview with national media yesterday ; when asked about trading key assets he stated that he didn’t feel a full rebuild was necessary and added that “the real answer is what are we getting in returns (.)” I was happy to hear that he has a balanced and intelligent approach instead of like so many here who are frothing at the mouth to “trade everyone” or “sell it all.”
Yeah, and Nolan for getting a bunch of challenges right. Angels are 4th in challenges they should have taken in the first half.
Adell is intelligent unlike Mr. 305
Mr. 305 – I had to think that one through. Couldn’t believe he did that in the first inning. Dumb.
40th win secured! 2-game winning streak and 11 GB in the division.
Only 23 wins to go!
Cards fans have to be getting the pitchforks out and heating up the tar, and collecting the feathers.
Yep. Marmol intentionally walking Lowe is Suzuki level stupidity ….. We’ll take it.
Lol I had the same thought immediately.
Still not Suzuki level stupid because I think the decision is at least defendable. Get the double play set up so an infield hit ends the inning instead of ending the game.
But walking a .200 hitter is really hard to justify.
Okay, but looking to get the DP from a guy who had already hit a HR that night and was getting hot ? Especially since Lowe is the worst hitter on our team not named O’Hoppe…. You still have to get Lowe out there.
I was thinking, would you rather have Adell up with 2 outs and runners at 2nd and 3rd or 1 out and bases loaded? Because Lowe would have whiffed
Totally.