6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog: He Smokes Two Joints In The Evening: Angels 8, Devil Rays 4

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Sunday, May 09, 2004

He Smokes Two Joints In The Evening: Angels 8, Devil Rays 4

Two outs, man on first. The batter strikes out. As the catcher, do you

Ritually tag the batter, roll the ball to the mound, remove your face mask, and deliberately walk back to the dugout?
Or do you throw the ball to second because the runner is in motion?

If you're Toby Hall, the D-Rays' catcher, you pick #2, and expose the team's basic flaw: they are fundamentally incompetent, from the players on the field to the senior management. They acquired Jason Romano only to put him on waivers and have him picked up by the Reds (duh). It amounts to a bad warmup for the series with New York and Baltimore (going from playing the worst team in the majors to some of the best). There was even -- and I wish I could find this -- a report that the Rays acquired Romano because they thought he could play short, a position he had not played in over a year.

Contract them. Contract them now.

Okay, I've got that vent out of my system.

God, please let Guillen be okay. We can't count on Halter to hit grand slams against the Yankees. Update: Guillen thinks he might be able to play Tuesday. We'll see, but that's one brave face for a guy who's been an HBP magnet. He currently leads the team with five.

Kotchman didn't embarrass himself, and actually drove in a run. Next, the Yanks. Welcome to the show, kid.

Recap

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