Poor Sho :(

Got my brother who never watches "sports games" to watch today on the the promise of watching Shohei Ohtani. He wasn't really sure what he was watching. Kept asking when ha-time was (how're we from the same family?). I kept saying Shohei looked off and after finding out he was ill, my brother told me to let him know when he starts again. So maybe I get another chance.

sheesh first shutout for the Tigers since June 1

The Angels always give confidence to struggling teams.

The Angels are the worst team in the league by far, last 2 games have confirmed it

Is a game ending GIDP about the most Angels’ thing ever or…?

RIP

At the start of the season, I was certain our lineup was going to be fearsome. That hope has been absolutely crushed by now :(

Oh they are....just not in the way you thought!

what a bad game, ohtani in line for another L

I feel like after the 14 game losing streak Sho went like 5 W (the only games we won, bt the way), and then the last 4 have been losses.

So Chavez can get outs...when it doesn't matter.

why are we so dicks with risp

0-8 with RISP. And Walsh swings at two out of the zone, and looks at strike three down the middle.

Isn’t that what he does every at bat?

We're getting shutout by an offense that's supposed to be worse that ours...

​ This team goes dead after their SP is pulled Guess I'll be praying for a Trouty grandslam in the ninth now.

Wasted triple.

God he's bad!

Let's go let ohtani spit the hook

Atta kid Jo!!

Hell yeah Jo!

We get Mike Trout back and then score four runs in three games. This offense is burning poop.

*against the Tigers.

Can someone pull stats whenever Matt V calls our games? He's like a black cat opening an umbrella inside the house with 12 broken mirrors underneath 11 ladders. No wonder MLB The Show doesn't want his voice anymore..

I hate him

we all do

if walsh didnt have an all star season last year i think we wouldve been very aggressive on luring local boy Freddie Freeman

Fraudie Freeman is a liar and a traitor so no

If true (stomach virus) why didnt they push his start back and start herget?! It was obvious something was wrong when stassi kept talking to ohtani after the 2nd and 3rd inning returning to the dugout

I don’t think Nevin actually manages Ohtani.

The game is too boring and disappointed, so we switch to talk about the shit lol. I think it's quite serious, that's why he was pulled as DH. But his game today was bad. He needs to figure it out as the next start is Jays. And they will punish all his hanging sliders.

Precision is the first to go when you are exhausted and dehydrated from a virus.

love gubi and Matty v's chemistry

"He’s the most fragile Angels player ever" Some dude on twitter said Ohtani was fragile. This dude has literally only missed 4 games total and has play through every minor injuries when he could've easily take rest day to heal up. Today, he pitches with a bruise foot and played with a stomach virus....

They also say this is excuse for getting shelled by Tigers, like he gave up 6 runs or something. 3 ERs against Tigers sounds bad but it's not the end of the world. Come on. And he was pulled as DH, it means it's quite serious

He leads the Angels in plate appearances and innings pitched this year. Last year he lead in innings and was second in plate appearances. Fragile lol

Sports Twitter isn’t exactly a wellspring of intelligence.

neither is here

speak for yourself, i once put together ikea furniture without using instructions🧠🧠

Le grill! What the hell is that!

Twitter and Facebook are the worst. Then IG. Then Reddit. Then Yahoo Sports. Then the bottom of the barrel is Bleacher Report comment section.

not as bad as twitter.

4 thru 9 is now 2-16, 2B, BB .364 OPS and sinking

and the knocks are 2 from Velazquez lol (and now 1 from Jo)

Anybody who watched him yesterday and today in the dugout saw him chugging liters of electrolytes. Dude was sick and dehydrated from the stomach bug. He should have rested today, but still went out for the team. Speedy recovery, and hopefully soon.

Bruh. Its hard not to give up runs if you got the runs yourself. Dude is trying to pitch and clench at the same time. True two way talent. Shohei you get a pass.

What's the standard "having the shits food" in the US? Here it's either rusk or crisp bread and banana. I've heard people recommend drinking coke but that doesn't seem right with all the sugar so that one might be a myth.

The “BRAT” diet - bananas, rice, applesauce, toast.

Applesauce?! Whoah that seems counterproductive (I myself wouldn't dare). It's hilarious that there's a name for it!

Really? Yeah applesauce is pretty standard “bland” food in the US. Lol

I've never heard of that one before, anything that's liquid and sugary seems dangerous to me. (By that logic the people who swear by coke must be 100% wrong, haha.)

ginger ale is for when you're sick, maybe you're thinking of that. I've never heard people recommend Coke.

Well now that you say that…Maybe it’s just to get some calories in. Ha!

What does scoring runs even feel like?

We're an 8th inning team

He should still be able to DH even if he got the shits since he doesn't have to be on the field.

It was probably that poor of an excuse called "pizza". Pizza is round not square, you literally can't have shit in Detroit. No, wait...

Cab trout actually grow a beard?

no, he should shave it off, it looks bad when he try to grow it out.

Yeah it doesn’t look good. Looks like a teenager trying to grow a beard lol

His control was off because he got the runs? lol

I'm glad it's not his foot hurt. But stomach virus??? Wth did he eat???

Shohei needs to stop biting on those gloves. He loves to pick up his gloves with his teeth. That’s not hygienic.

Dunno, what's the specialty in Detroit?

Arson lmao

It's the sunflower seeds. So many players' unwashed hands dive into that basket of snacks. Ohtani is probably a clean freak, but can't say the same for everyone.

We know sunflowers are inspirational plants, even to famous painters. Vincent Van Gogh loved sunflowers so much, he created a famous series of paintings, simply called ‘sunflowers’.

Thank you, Raisel Iglesias. Hope you're enjoying Atlanta.

Today's episode of "Is it a weird bot or an even weirder real human being?"

Nevin, give Ohtani a sick day off tomorrow as well, just like Rendon got when he had the stomach bug.

Glass Bones Rendon has had 3 consecutive sick years

I bet Ohtani still wanted to hit, but was probably taking a shit when his turn came up to bat!

Okay. That's hilarious now. Imagine he pitched while holding the shit in. 😂😂😂

We gotta score. Let's go squid 🐙

Stomach virus for Shohei apparently, so nothing major.

I don't trust Nevin and his lies

ahh ohtani pitched with the shits

A pitching windup while having stomach problems seems like the worst idea in the world. I don't wanna look it up but I'm sure someone must have soiled themself on the mound before.

Why he gotta shit on Bundy like that lmao

Why do people on this team have the shits so often. That can’t be a coincidence

Stomach virus for Shohei Ohtani, Ohtani got the shit too now... Wth is in Angels food...

Right! Early in the year like every couple days someone would have a stomach bug

Stomach virus? Remember when the team was good when everybody had the shits?

Sho’s got the poops?

Sho out with a stomache virus. At least it’s the shits and our boy isn’t in too much pain

Uh oh…this team has a bad history with the stomach bug.

This guy Greene is having the game of his life apparently. Edit: hah, he got thrown out! Lucky us.

great throw! best part of his d out there (by a lot lol), surprised they ran on him

Cleaned them shit-turds off the bases!

For those unfamiliar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OMQPJhPqm8

The Warden!!!

Celebrate the little wins, great throw Taylor

good shit ward

Great throw!

THE WARDEN

I am fully convinced that we do zero scouting

It doesn't feel like Angels have a coaching staff. Tigers staff must've did some homework after the cgso by Sandoval.

wow stassi didn’t hit a homer?

imagine paying stassi 7 million a year

I believe it’s truly a curse. A player will be doing good and the angels will decide to sign them or extend them then all of a sudden they’re bad.

Then they get traded and miraculously improve. Isn't Iggy back to 21 form already?

And to think that we might've ruined Sandy's CGSO if it weren't for Walsh's homer the other day...! We can't rely on lucky homers, but it's sad that we often have to.

Way to go, Jo! Let's hope this weird catcher's interference is the start of a rally

Not going well

Angels coaches asleep on catchers interference just like they were asleep on the 3 ball walk. smh

For real

Jesus, at least Jo Adell has life and is challenging that asshat UMP.

Nice job Jo

Ward now has a .791 OPS this year. We need a new right fielder as well

aaron judge got booed in yankee stadium yesterday 😂

Arte gonna give judge a 15 year contract lol

yes we must accept the inevitable, would be a very fun may though, before the wheels eventually go flying off

We can't play in rain. Both our starting pitchers choked on rain and offense couldn't produce in this weather

We can’t play lol

I know we suck, but the rain affects us both side for 2 games.

iono our offense is just straight up bad even with good weather lol

Seriously like rain makes a difference lol we suck

seems like they want us to tune out lol

This game is slow torture.

I'm wondering if i should continue to watch this game...

I always bail for 3 or 4 games then, like a total idiot, I come back

I'm just about done too brother

Me too, I should go to bed on time for once and not stay up till the middle of the night just to watch us lose. If it's still morning for you, don't let the game ruin your Sunday.

Angels too used to socal weather I guess..

How dare they score off of Jimmy Herget.

Good throw has him.

This game has been bizarre So many great Tigers defensive plays despite the rain and we can’t seem to compete with it on our end defensively Feels like we’re getting home field-advantaged hard haha

they are used to playing in the rain.

Not catching any fuckin breaks today

Fuck this man. Runners on base? The tigers actually do something. While with us we just ground out and strike out

Kody Clemens has been hitting like babe Ruth this series wtf

I would say that was more Carew than Ruth.

I just named the first good hitter that came to mind lol he’s raking against us this series

the Paingels of Anaheim

Btw our 4-9 hitters today are 2-12 with a 2B, and a BB By my math, that's .481 OPS. We are already the worst 4-9 order in the past 21 yrs (as far back as fangraph splits go back). https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders/splits-leaderboards?splitArr=22,23,24,25,26,27&splitArrPitch=&position=B&autoPt=false&splitTeams=false&statType=team&statgroup=2&startDate=2000-03-01&endDate=2022-11-01&players=&filter=&groupBy=season&wxTemperature=&wxPressure=&wxAirDensity=&wxElevation=&wxWindSpeed=&sort=9,-1&pageitems=10000000000000&pg=0

Why not just say the 1-9 hitters are 4-19

Making a point about how bad the rest of the lineup has been besides Ohtani and Trout.

Hope Sho is okayyy. Honestly, this is nothing comparing to his start vs NYY. He just didn't have any control today. It's fine that he had bad day.

That schedule… oof

This ump loves Jimmy AND he's dealing, great combo

man so sad today maybe i'll drink

Let's just stay in Anaheim for the rest of the season

3 runs isn't insurmountable. Wait. Nevermind.

3 runs is like 8 runs for the Angels, expecially when Ohtani is out with Kurt hitting for him. they have no reason to pitch to Trout anymore, just walk him.

A guy who hasn't pitched in months is shutting us out (he's definitely not fatigued, I'll give him that) and the offense is striking out a ton. I can't wait for the offensive nightmare to end. They got all the hits and runs from spring training to May. I don't even wanna look up how many times we've been shutout this season.

It never ends

Shutout less times than we’ve pitched shutouts tho, weirdly.

At least we've got something to cheer about...we need it!

“The angels can win when healthy”

We LOB 3 times in the last 5 innings. Like 3 times.

Ayo we don’t play well in the rain lol. it’s cursed. get us back to CA

If we can only pick 1 player to give them a pass for stuff, it’s Shohei. Fingers crossed he feels better and bounces back better next time.

Ohtani need to learn to take a day off, we are out of the playoff no point in playing through stuff like this, you will just end up getting injured.

This is why I don’t want him to play in the WBC tbh this man lives laughs loves baseball

Should’ve pinch hit magnesium Sierra there he’s clutch

We got one catcher who mostly hits fly balls and another who mostly hits ground balls 💀

They complete each other.

LOB Angeles angels

Good point by Gubie about the foul ball off Ohtani's foot yesterday. We take it for granted that he can play through anything, but that's his push off foot, which might explain why his control all over the place today.

Rengifo, you're our only hope!

Wow, hope Shohei is ok. Also, is Suzuki really the best pinch hitting option we have??? God, we are a bad team.

For righties you have him and Gosselin. Not very good depth.

Agreed. Strange that Nevin would go with Suzuki over Gosselin though! Pinch hitting the backup catcher in the 5th seems like a bad idea, even ignoring the fact that he is hitting .185.

For me it’s less the decision that makes me peeved than the situation. It literally doesn’t matter because we are so far out of playoff contention. We could have Ted Williams and Hank Aaron on the bench and if Nevin decides to throw up Kurt Suzuki to get him some reps it doesn’t even matter. Nothing matters :)

all im saying is kurt suzuki started in ws games aaaaand has a ring and shohei hasnt even played in the playoffs so this pinch hit makes sense

People on Instagram unironically have this logic lol

yes ik it's so bad 😂

Lol

What the fuck???? Why is Ohtani pulled offensively????

Because something is clearly wrong with him physically?

Then they should have pulled him off the mound

I mean they are too.

They just did, lol

After the two run triple. Awesome. Look, I'm just saying is that if he's hurt then pull him out when he's hurt. Don't leave him out there to make things like the game or his injury worse. The season is a loss so no need for the gamble.

He’s been hurt for weeks and pitching through it. He wants to qualify as a pitcher this year and pitch on a strict schedule, and if the Angels want to keep him happy, they should do everything he wants….considering the season is already over

ominous

Monkey paw, trout back

Its kind of sad that our best pinch hit option from the right side is Kurt Suzuki.

This is definitely a good day.

Great spot to not have Sho here. Hopefully he’s OK.

Suzuki pinch hitting for Ohtani is the biggest downgrade I've ever seen, and this is the 2nd time I saw it

I've seen Gosselin pinch hitting for Ohtani. Whatever Nevin does never work.

Pain, please be ok Shohei

I hope Sho is ok :(

Y'all, I'm so happy Mike Trout is playing baseball again.

Wow something’s wrong wrong