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Angels at Braves Game 2 Gamethread
201 Comments
Legend
15 hours ago
This game has been so excruciating to watch in the last few innings does anybody even remember that we may have lost Moore for the year.
Legend
15 hours ago
SOLO HOMER BY JORGE SOLER
Trusted Member
15 hours ago
Sucks so bad that like 95% of Trout comments are now negative. I completely get it and nobody is wrong in their assessments just sucks so bad we are already at that point with him
Legend
15 hours ago
The comments are both warranted (to a degree) and over the top.
He’s earned our respect. Also, he’s the highest paid player on the team and deserves criticism. I do think the constant negativity and bashing is a bit much.
Last edited 15 hours ago by Pineapple12
Legend
15 hours ago
You don’t think it’s earned?
Trusted Member
15 hours ago
I think that’s the double edge sword of it all. I think every single poster here respects Trout and what’s he’s done. Angel legend forever regardless what happens from here. I can’t bring myself to bashing him but totally get what others are saying. Totally bummer situation
Member
15 hours ago
Oh, absolutely, an Angels legend.
And, we intend to go to the last game in Anaheim, when Trout retires (unless he’s traded).
It’s been wonderful watching Trout play.
One of the best I’ve ever seen play, in person or on TV.
Legend
15 hours ago
He’s officially entered the bad part of his Albert Pujols contract. How many years are left?
Legend
15 hours ago
Catastrophic ending to this one.
Win tomorrow and take the series.
Legend
16 hours ago
Of course Trout singles when no one is on base.
Legend
16 hours ago
Mr. Unclutch.
Member
16 hours ago
It’s been fun watching Trout play – so fun!!
But, yes.
Time and time again.
Member
16 hours ago
Same with the homers.
As long as it’s not a clutch situation, you can bet Trout will hit a homer.
Remember the playoffs in 2014, Angels vs Royals?
Angels got swept. Trout got 1 hit – a homer, in game 3, when there was no pressure.
Angels team rarely tell viewers what Trout does with RISP. You have to search the Internet to find out, or else watch the opposing team’s broadcast (or watch AppleTV when they have the Angels on) in order to find out.
For example, in 2024, Trout was batting roughly 0.150 with RISP. You know how I found out? I looked it up on the Internet. Angels organization repeatedly evades giving out information that is negative.
Super Member
15 hours ago
In 2025, coming into today, Trout is .325/.474/.450 with RISP. Last year he only had 25 PA’s with RISP because he missed almost the entire season. I find this anti Trout slander preposterous.
Legend
15 hours ago
LMAOOOO
Always funny when they tell you to do your own research and then their narrative gets proven wrong
Last edited 15 hours ago by Pineapple12
Member
15 hours ago
I am not slandering Trout.
I have seen a number of games over Trout’s career (perhaps not as many as you, or others).
I’ve seen enough to see Trout driving in runs when the pressure is not on. But, when it counts (against the Astros, Red Sox, Yankees, etc), he does not come through.
Against Verlander, he’s 5-45, with 2 HR, 2 RBI.
Back around 2017, with Angels-Astros vying for 1st place sometime around June, Angels had man on 3rd, less than 2 outs. On the 1st pitch (which Trout routinely takes), Verlander threw a fastball inside, and Trout swung, hitting a comebacker.
I enjoy watching Trout, and watching Angels games. But, I don’t blindly support a team.
Trusted Member
16 hours ago
2 things this team apparently hates. Being over .500 and having a respectable run differential. Any time they start to improve on either they shit their pants faster than my 1 yr old
Legend
16 hours ago
don’t worry because we will take the series tomorrow and get back to .500.
To then get beaten down and swept in Toronto
Trusted Member
16 hours ago
The self loather in me says they will hover around .500 and finally get over the hump and then immediately lose like 10 in a row.
Legend
16 hours ago
Zeferjunk last 7 games ( 6.0 innings pitched)
ERA – 12.00
WHIP – 2.17
Runs -8
Member
16 hours ago
Angels will keep him around.
Remember, Angels are not like Dodgers/Yankees or any other team that’s likely to make the playoffs.
As long as you don’t play horribly, you stay in the majors when you play for the Angels. And that’s why we haven’t made the playoffs in over a decade.
Look at how long they kept Jose Suarez before giving up on him in 2024.
Suarez then played 3 games for the Braves this year, and they promptly sent him to the minors, despite the fact that he had a 2.45 ERA (much lower than at any time when he was with the Angels).
You can’t keep using players with major liabilities (Rengifo and his defense, Newman and his offense) and expect to win.
Legend
16 hours ago
Leave it to the Angels to awaken the Atlanta bats.
Trusted Member
16 hours ago
Can we just draft Doyle already, put him in the bullpen in our failed pursuit of a wildcard.
Legend
16 hours ago
Oh god.
Super Member
16 hours ago
That inning just sucked the life outta this team.
Legend
16 hours ago
Blue crushed any hope of a rally there
Legend
16 hours ago
still pissed. Montgomery is a moron
Legend
16 hours ago
Minasian is the bigger moron for hiring him in the first place and making him the interim manager in the second place.
Last edited 16 hours ago by MarineLayer
Super Member
16 hours ago
Love that exit velocity of 6.
Super Member
16 hours ago
At least we’re consistent. Another 10 K’s. Still have a couple of innings.
Legend
16 hours ago
Enright’s face is beet red. Embarrassed or ready to blow a gasket?
Super Member
16 hours ago
Kikuchi should have finished that inning. Period!
Super Member
16 hours ago
Obvious to everyone except one man
Trusted Member
16 hours ago
when you walk the the number 9 hitter that is ONLY in there for his glove which loads the bases for a generational talent you’d think that would be a dead giveaway he had no friggen idea where the ball was going. But nah lets role with him.
Trusted Member
16 hours ago
I see they’ve found the above .500 brick wall to smash their face into once again
Legend
16 hours ago
😂
Member
16 hours ago
That’s right, Angels announcers, talk about how well the relievers have been doing in the past 10 games (or 20 games).
But, overall, this is a bad relieving corps.
Along with below-average to average starting pitching and hitting, and below average fielding.
So, will Angels executives repeat their mistake of 2023, by trading prospects for rental players to try to go for the playoffs? Only to see that 2023 team go 73-89.
This team is like that team.
Legend
16 hours ago
bullpen has been solid overall idk what you’re talking about there
Member
16 hours ago
Using Fan Graphs as a source:
- combined fWAR of 0.9 (30th in majors)
- ERA 4.58 (24th)
- WHIP 1.46 28th
And those stats do not include tonight’s game.
Legend
16 hours ago
Does he have any options or will he be DFA’d tonight?
Super Member
16 hours ago
He has options
Legend
16 hours ago
That might have been the worst relief effort I’ve ever seen
Super Member
16 hours ago
The infinity ERA for this game
Legend
16 hours ago
Is there an option to send him to another continent?
Member
16 hours ago
Nah, Angels will keep Zerfejahn.
After all, if they can keep Jose Suarez and his 6.02 ERA in 2024 (or 8.29 ERA in 2023) in the majors, they’ll keep Zerfejahn. He’s only got a 6.19 ERA. Still got a few more bad outings to go to get that ERA past 8.29.
This is what the Angels do – if you play average to below average, you’re on the team.
It’s only when you are beyond horrific (like Suarez giving up a run every time he pitched) that the Angels start to consider moving you.
