Thursday, May 01, 2008 |
Two Games
Craptacular! A's 15, Angels 8
I really don't care about the Pythagorean series winner (FYI, the A's should have taken three of four). What I care about here is this:The early going has shown the back end of the bullpen is absolute crap.Nick Adenhart, at least, had an excuse for walking four; it was his first time in the Show, and he was pitching on short rest. Dustin Moseley had no such excuse, for Mike made it clear before the game that Moseley was Plan B should Adenhart falter — which he did.
As far as I can tell, Bootcheck and Moseley are interchangeable garbage-time pitchers with middling stuff and a career arc that may not even get them to free agency. It's kind of sad when Kevin Gregg (who has taken two losses in the late Dodger series) looks like an improvement.
Offensively, it says something that six of the Angels' eight runs came against starter Justin Duchscherer, and all of them were unearned thanks to various and sundry oopsifications in the field, but none bigger than Jack Cust's in-and-out treatment of Garret Anderson's routine fly. Too bad they couldn't make any lead stick in this one.
Napoli hit another homer and got a couple RBIs, too, and Erick Aybar turned in a 3-RBI performance. Work with me, people, I'm trying to look for positives here.
Kevin Gregg, That's Two Checks The Dodgers Owe You: Dodgers 5, Marlins 3
Tied 3-3 going into the ninth, the Dodgers got to Kevin Gregg for the second time in the series, thus effecting a sweep against an early-season hot team. I enjoyed that part of it... though maybe not so much Juan Pierre's good 2-for-3 game with a pair of RBIs, knowing it might end up an excuse to have him play more. Glass half full on this one.Labels: angels, athletics, dodgers, marlins, recaps
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