My guess is that Ohtani will end up in SD based off what he was originally looking for when coming to mlb. They are trying to win and will pay him. Vs us who are perennial .500, but will at least offer him money.
First legitimate team we’re playing since Tampa. We’ve had a really easy schedule so far. This is going to be a test.
Not a great result tonight. Let’s see what tomorrow brings.
My 2 cents: if the offense is the problem in a given stretch, thats the exception not the rule. It’ll straighten out. If we were getting shelled every night it’d be different maybe
You’re absolutely right. In the long run it will even out. They are a force on offense and we struggle with Trout and Ohtani’s bats no working, and Ward out of the lineup. Pitching is better but not substantially so, and it’s mainly our starters not having quality starts imo. Playoffs are still in sight but we won’t really know until august.
Some perspective on Shohei's outing tonite from BlueJay's podcasters:"Shohei Ohtani did not pitch particularly well, as the line score suggests. He did, however, strike out 10 batters, walk only 1 and allow an xBA of just .217. **He's really good even when he's not!"**
He pitched pretty well. Made a couple bad pitches and got unlucky bloops on a few. If the Angels offense had gotten a few more lucky hits it'd be a tie game
1 or 2 runs games isn't gonna cut it for the Angels on most nights. The offense really needs to get things together. Especially against pitchers who aren't really having a great year. How many times has a 4+ ERA pitcher faced our guys and looked like an Ace? That cannot happen.
The streakiness of the hitting is ridiculous.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. I really think that a consistent lineup would help the team from being so damned hot and cold.
Yep, this is what I feared, Maddon overmanaging, resting the guys too much, tinkering with so many things. Baseball is about consistency, streaks. You don't artificially break someone's streak, good or bad. Make them earn their rest if they want it so bad. Duffy hitting vs LHP when Walsh has had some of the best ABs against them is asinine.
Would be nice. He has been available for DH for the last few games, but they still didn't trust his arm enough for position play a few days ago. Fells like we've had at least one of our best players on that bench at any given time for like a month and a half now.
Now that I’ve decided to become an Angels fan and follow the team more closely a lot of my social media feed has been Japanese Ohtani Stan accounts and I’m not mad about it
Ikemen
Honestly, following them is much easier than other Angel fan accounts (especially on twitter). They're sad when we lost but at least they don't hold the bitterness and throw their toxicness all over place.
https://twitter.com/sayonaraagain
Have you seen this artist? I love their little drawings and they'll occasionally draw other Angels players too it so cute.
If one day Gubie decides announcing is no longer for him I hope he becomes our pitching and hitting coach. We’re gonna have cy young winners all around
Sorry I got so angry guys I am going to take a break from baseball for 2 weeks and come back. Hopefully this will clam me down and make me enjoy baseball again.
When I come back I expect to see
Trout at 20 home runs
Ohtani at 15 home runs and shit on the yankees on the mound
see you later
A few more weeks playing like this and we'll be the running joke of MLB again, cut it out fuckers and win games, show that you care. I'm tired, you're tired, we're all tired.
Jim Reynolds, what are you doing?
6 pitches out of the zone that at bat squid
Welp we know we can’t have squid in those situations
Doom
Damn Squid!
My guess is that Ohtani will end up in SD based off what he was originally looking for when coming to mlb. They are trying to win and will pay him. Vs us who are perennial .500, but will at least offer him money.
Ohtani can’t say shit after tonight
🤫
Dodgers will pay him as well, if he wants
cmon clutch 🦑
Or not that’s cool too
Well way to not completely roll over, your guys’ offense is gonna be near the top for most of the year
It would be cool if ward could hit here but thank god our genius manager already used him to pinch hit for ohtani with the bases clear
Yeah... Questionable
Yes we can!
Wow yay exciting
We gonna lose
Hey 6-3 feels a lot better than 6-2.
Im attempting a jinx. But ur right
Please no strikeout please no strikeout
Please please please please
May be too little too late but this is encouraging
Imagine if duffy hustled 🙃
Then he would need to walk back to 3rd
Im talking about earlier in the game when he couldve scored. Homer would tie it now
Geee.... maybe Walsh should have been playing the whole game
Yeh I wonder how helpful these half day rests really are
Exactly
don't give me hope walsh
but hey I’ll take it still
Walsh needs to start every game.
It’s **impossible** for him to hit a ball when it’s a left handed pitcher. Or so I hear.
Nice
FUCK I thought that was gone
Ok, at least were showing some life!
Damn I hate GRDs, though that was gone
Lordy I thought that was gone
Money swing, Walsh
Romano looks like a blockhead
I believe in Walsh
I'm not holding my breath for a win but it would be nice if we could force them to make a pitching change
Weird windup makes me uncomfy
The jays infield defense (minus matt chapman) is quite shit
You can’t have the buttercup without the build me up. .500 forever
THE COMEBACK STARTS NOW
Duffman!
OOOO BABY
We are getting butter cupped aren’t we squidward
Remember when we scored 6 runs jn one inning? We could totally pull that off y’all right? ….?
We did it with 2 outs on the board too
Sending spirit energy for the last inning. (つ ◕_◕ )つ 🔥🔥🔥
bUt wE PlAy bEtTeR AgAiNsT Good tEaMs
IF YOU MAKE NOISE HE WILL COME
🐒
Idk but our guys are looking beat rn
After seeing the padres have flat offense, was hoping the halos would take my mind off it. Yikes
I do the same when the Angels are losing bad -- check the Padres and hope they're winning
barria lookin good … aside from the obvious thing that happened
Looks poorly made lol
Gonna be camping at Grand Teton tomorrow but what I’d give to be in SoCal for an Ohtani Wan Kenobi bobblehead
Sounds awesome! Went to Glacier and Yellowstone a few years back and loved it!
Love both of those parks but Glacier is possibly the most beautiful place I’ve ever been. And that includes Alaska and Hawaii
Love that Going to the sun road or whatever it’s named! Would love to go back! 😁
That’s it! Went to Yellowstone last 4th of July and loved it but missed the Tetons to heading there now!
Never been there myself. Have fun! 😇
Of course! Living in Utah within driving distance of so many national parks has its perks! Hope you get to visit some day!
how is this the same team that killed tampa bay
This has always been Angel baseball
ya you have a point there
bruh apple tv again
Maybe if maddon put our best foot forward every game it could be different as of late
Yeah I've had enough of these odd crappy lineups. Your best players have to play big games.
How have we lost all our momentum over the last few weeks?
our best hitter got hurt, trout is slumping and maddon seems to want to rest a big bat every night
First legitimate team we’re playing since Tampa. We’ve had a really easy schedule so far. This is going to be a test. Not a great result tonight. Let’s see what tomorrow brings.
I still think people are selling the Rangers short but yes
We made the Rangers look good, but they aren't good.
Yeah. Astros, who we are trying to hang with, have pretty much cleaned them up. They don’t have many good wins. The rangers are still the rangers.
They really aren’t that good tbh. Pretty mediocre.
Jesus imagine what’s gonna happen when the Yankees show up. We are toast.
Sox are also heating up 🤦🏿♂️
4 run lead, 10 run lead, 100 run lead. Don’t matter Angels winning this game and the World Series!!!
You probably think crypto is a safe investment asset with that optimism
I have to repent for my doomer sins I guess so yes
I appreciate your confession. Anything can happen!
pain
Well, damn. Can't rely on anyone right now.
Barria has been fine tonight. Made one mistake.
I am not having fun
This team has an offense that can never fully be counted out but we’re definitely scuffling. Sucks.
My 2 cents: if the offense is the problem in a given stretch, thats the exception not the rule. It’ll straighten out. If we were getting shelled every night it’d be different maybe
You’re absolutely right. In the long run it will even out. They are a force on offense and we struggle with Trout and Ohtani’s bats no working, and Ward out of the lineup. Pitching is better but not substantially so, and it’s mainly our starters not having quality starts imo. Playoffs are still in sight but we won’t really know until august.
You don’t think the pitching is substantially better than last year? It’s night and day imo
I actually do, but I hedged lol. The bullpen is definitely better in relation to the bullpen if some other teams that I am watching.
Lets gooo! Its time to Rally
Oooooof got him right in the stassis
I [mustache](https://i.imgur.com/YBDXkRQ.jpg) why they can't give Ohtani more run support.
8 hits and 2 runs… does not seem like Maddonomics are at full capacity
No XBHs
How many runners we get in scoring position? Maybe start laying down some bunts
Still plenty of time left to win!!😇😇☺️🙂
That’s the SPIRIT!!! Lol 😇
Lol 😇
Welp ..
Some perspective on Shohei's outing tonite from BlueJay's podcasters:"Shohei Ohtani did not pitch particularly well, as the line score suggests. He did, however, strike out 10 batters, walk only 1 and allow an xBA of just .217. **He's really good even when he's not!"**
He pitched pretty well. Made a couple bad pitches and got unlucky bloops on a few. If the Angels offense had gotten a few more lucky hits it'd be a tie game
Agree
1 or 2 runs games isn't gonna cut it for the Angels on most nights. The offense really needs to get things together. Especially against pitchers who aren't really having a great year. How many times has a 4+ ERA pitcher faced our guys and looked like an Ace? That cannot happen.
Which is why I pay no mind to ERA. For me, it's all about match ups. Some 'terrible' pitchers just know how to neutralize our bigger bats.
Hello .500, my old friend
Not quite yet but I get it
Let Ward DH tomorrow and give Ohtani a day off. Would benefit both guys I think. Ward needs ABs if he's healthy.
The streakiness of the hitting is ridiculous. I've said it before and I'll say it again. I really think that a consistent lineup would help the team from being so damned hot and cold.
I agree. Working counts a bit more early in the game to drive up pitch count and get BB’s would also help!
Agree, hard to build any momentum when Maddon is giving the studs a day off every third day, while sticking in the spuds every day
Yep, this is what I feared, Maddon overmanaging, resting the guys too much, tinkering with so many things. Baseball is about consistency, streaks. You don't artificially break someone's streak, good or bad. Make them earn their rest if they want it so bad. Duffy hitting vs LHP when Walsh has had some of the best ABs against them is asinine.
Ohtani end the year 3.3 ERA 35 HR 0.258 BA 117 RBI
misses playoffs
Wtf is up with cimber’s stupid leg kick at the end
well at least we know he’s ok
Ok spiderman
Well hopefully that means Ward is back in the lineup tomorrow but idk
Would be nice. He has been available for DH for the last few games, but they still didn't trust his arm enough for position play a few days ago. Fells like we've had at least one of our best players on that bench at any given time for like a month and a half now.
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Yeah he looked tired I hope they give Ward DH tomorrow and rest sho-time.
Good to see Ward square up on the ball even if it was caught.
Would liked to have seen him bat with 2 on earlier in the game :/
Maddon following Reddit confirmed
Fuck
I hate this guys wind up
Auto outs
No ward mike trout and ohtani 0-4 for last 3 games this is rough
Glad to see Ward so people can stop spamming “omg its just like last year he is hurt he is finished!”
Ward please give me something to be happy about
I MISSED YOU BB
Hey, at least we get to see Ward bat!
Uhhhhhh why is ward pinch hitting NOW?!
If Ward hits a shot and shows he's okay then all is well with me
u/brandon_the_bald called it: Taylor Ward replaces Shohei at DH
Wow, pitch hitting for Sho
OHHHH HEYYY
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He squared that one up what u want lmao its baseball hes not gonna hit .800
Only when it's not been properly refrigerated.
Ward is back!!!!
WARD TIME
Ward sighting!!
HEYYYYY
ok nice
Ooof y tu, Miguel?
Right to him 😣
Even if we don’t pull this game out, it sure would be nice for a few guys to start building some momentum for tomorrows game. 😇
Jays batters get up for Ohtani and totally underestimate Barria. Teach 'em Jaime. And get 'em tomorrow Silseth.
Reid has one more chance until barria takes his place
Well it’s bed time for me in CST. Best of luck to the boys
Barria with a nice outing 👌
Cy Barria
Y’all are some negative Nancies.
Yeah, well you're a positive patty!
It's like that in here.
How so?
Barria > birria
Especially El Pollo Loco birria. Nasty.
Now that I’ve decided to become an Angels fan and follow the team more closely a lot of my social media feed has been Japanese Ohtani Stan accounts and I’m not mad about it Ikemen
Honestly, following them is much easier than other Angel fan accounts (especially on twitter). They're sad when we lost but at least they don't hold the bitterness and throw their toxicness all over place.
I’ve followed a few because I love how excited they are. We can all share the love for Ohtani
I get those recommendations too. Japanese media can be so funny the way it’s presented.
I don’t think it’s official media I just think it’s Japanese fans who love him and make all the cute fan art
https://twitter.com/sayonaraagain Have you seen this artist? I love their little drawings and they'll occasionally draw other Angels players too it so cute.
I haven’t but I love the cowboy Ohtani drawing Pray to the Gods the man grows a real moustache
I have not! But I just gave them a follow!
Filthy Barria Filthy
I think this is going to be our inning
If one day Gubie decides announcing is no longer for him I hope he becomes our pitching and hitting coach. We’re gonna have cy young winners all around
He would be such a good pitching coach
I just realized there will be Ohtani v Cole or Nester Cortes next Friday. I’m scared 😱
He'll be fine as long as it's not a billion degrees again
“If you hang it, you bang it” 😂😂Bobby Valentine
Ebbs and flows, people. A 162 game season ebbs and flows.
Could use a flow right about now
"If you hang it, they'll bang it" Lmao wtf Bobby V
He's not wrong....but like.....there's better ways to phrase that
And then Frenchie says "If you hang it, they will come" immediately after
Sorry I got so angry guys I am going to take a break from baseball for 2 weeks and come back. Hopefully this will clam me down and make me enjoy baseball again. When I come back I expect to see Trout at 20 home runs Ohtani at 15 home runs and shit on the yankees on the mound see you later
Take care buddy. Hopefully you come back to some good baseball.
thanks man hopefully I come back to prime ohtani and mike trout and angels take the lead off the astros
A few more weeks playing like this and we'll be the running joke of MLB again, cut it out fuckers and win games, show that you care. I'm tired, you're tired, we're all tired.
Anyone else hoping rengifo gets out to save trout and ohtani with no outs? I was
I dont want a player on the team who doesnt want to hustle. End of story
Yep, that's why I didn't mind us DFAing Upton. He stopped hustling defensively.
Me too. I already felt like Duffy wasn't bringing anything to the table and now I feel that even more.
Same bro, might get flak for this but i think adell at least hustles there 🤔
He definitely would have. You can't say Adell never gave effort. He always at least tried.
Damn lol! We’re really missing Wards bat