6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog: Eat This! Angels 11, Yankees 2

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Thursday, May 13, 2004

Eat This! Angels 11, Yankees 2

I'm getting this out of the way now so I don't lose some vital organ later tonight: Glaus won't play for days and might end up on the DL. At this rate, it won't be the Anaheim Angels, it'll be the Anaheim Travelers. I had a feeling there was something bad happening if Glaus had to stay in the DL role for days and days. I hope Arte's enjoying the wins, 'cause Guillen's an injury magnet, man, and once he stops hitting, the rest of this team is awfully shaky.

I can't agree with Richard that Jeff could be a star, but he's a solid fourth OF for any team. The problem is when you have to rely on such guys. Between him and Figgins, neither of them take particularly good routes to the ball, and while Cinderella doesn't need to know such stuff, they do. It was especially evident last night. Nor can I go in with him on the Halter-bashing just yet, though you have to wonder just how long the team can go on with all these sub-.250 players. Hey, at least Mike benched Eckstein. It was way overdue.

Anyway, Kotch's base-clearing double was fantastic. He went 2-5 on the day, and is now hitting .250 against the fargin' Yanks. The Yankees, man. Weber, my on-again, off-again bête noir, managed a scoreless inning. Ortiz kinda redeemed himself in a teensy tiny way by closing the game out with a goose egg.

Recap

Update: Strike that about Kotch. Most of his AB's have come against the Yanks, but in fact, Mr. Small Sample Size says he's batting .333 against them so far. Hi!

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