Wednesday, August 29, 2012 |
Gripe
When, oh when, will Angels Stadium get WiFi? AT&T data is useless in-game, which means I have to bring my Verizon WiFi card with. It frequently runs out of juice mid-game. Get with the program, Angels Stadium: install WiFi.
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A Come-From-Behind Win: Angels 6, Red Sox 5
Jered Weaver damn near took another loss, which these days isn't too surprising. He got clobbered in his start
two games ago, his worst career loss, giving up nine runs in three innings, but he bounced smartly back with his next game — amazingly, in Fenway, where he has been
historically awful (
2-3, 6.35 ERA). In reality, Weaver did pretty well in this game save for the outsized fourth, in which he loaded the bases with no outs and allowed all those base runners to score.
The Angels and Red Sox are roughly looking at .500 from opposite ends, the Angels just above and Boston just below. Neither is really contending for anything at the moment, as even the Angels are four and a half games back of either Oakland or Baltimore for a wild card berth, in fifth place overall. That's too many teams to bounce over. The Angels got heroics from Mike Trout at the beginning (a leadoff homer in the first off Boston starter Clay Buchholz) and at the end (a game-tying RBI single in the bottom of the ninth off Alfredo Aceves). Matthew Poulliot of NBC Sports wanted to know when someone will fire Bobby Valentine after that effort, because Aceves clearly shouldn't have been pitching a two-inning save, and at the least he should have had someone warming up behind him. That he didn't is managerial malpractice, but I'll take the win, thankyouverymuch.
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Thursday, August 16, 2012 |
Winning The Only Way They Know How: Angels 8, Indians 4
It was an odd game, as these things go; first, the Angels stood up in the second and bludgeoned the former Fausto Carmona, now
Roberto Hernandez in his first game since
serving a three-week suspension for falsifying his name. The results were pretty for the Angels so far as the score went, but not so much for what they said about the team's offense in reality. What transpired was a real comedy of errors, with Vernon Wells reaching on an error and scoring on another one, both by Brent Lillibridge. In all, they put up a five spot, but really, had Lillibridge not sucked, the score would have been 2-0, as Iannetta's sac fly would have been the inning's third out, and Wells would have hit into a double play.
The good also included Ervin Santana's first decent outing in quite a long time, completing seven innings with only one run surrendered. Jason Isringhausen sucked — again — giving up a three-run jack to Shin Soo Choo, but that was it for the Tribe, who went down in order against an oddly resurgent Kevin Jepsen. In a year that has been so miserable for the Angels — I wrote nothing about the weekend series with Seattle because it was so damn dispiriting — it's good if you can beat the (other) bad teams.
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Thursday, August 02, 2012 |
Split, And Less: Rangers 15, Angels 9
Something about this game — this series — says 2013 and beyond will be bleak. Expensive. Bad. Like the Mets in recent years, always suffering from some key lack, and always patching over it with more useless veterans (<
cough> Takahashi </
cough>). It seems indelicate and stupid.
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Heartbreak: Rangers 11, Angels 10 (10 Innings)
If the Angels lose the division by one game, this is the one they'll rue. Losing leads of six runs and then three runs, the latter in extras? It reminds me that Scioscia was smarter when he had Joe Maddon as his bench coach, or maybe it's easy to be smart when you have a bullpen full of aces. Frieri showed why the Padres were willing to trade him in the first place, and now that
Scott Downs has hit the 15-day DL with a strained shoulder, the Angels' bullpen looks thinner and thinner.
Sure, tell me that the Angels are now guaranteed a split in Texas, and that's not a bad thing. But with victory within reach? Not so good.
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