A few things I have noticed over the outstanding weekend the Angels just had is this team can fight. Early on in the season the games were high scoring and the Halos were coming up on the bad end of that stick. This week was a different story. The Halos were scheduled to have 13 games without a break. With 3 of your starters, 2 bullpen pitchers, and the biggest long ball threat out due to injury, many teams would be hurting to win games. It seems that every baseball analyst or sports reporter is just waiting for the Halos to go down in a ball of flame. All but Peter Gammons, after Big Daddy Vladdy went down with the pectoral injury everybody was saying Oakland would be taking the division. Again all but Peter Gammons. Gammons said that he felt the Angels would do the same thing they do every year and weather the storm, and that we would end up 10 games up by the All-Star break. Our Halos went 9-3 against a newly revamped Yankees team, the picked to win the west A’s, and two first place teams in the Blue Jays and Royals.

I was very impressed with the way the team came together in today’s 4-3 victory against KC. It was the fact that they came back from behind. They got the key hits late in the game. They were able to execute in the most important time of the game. The bottom of the lineup has been coming thru when they need to. The team is finding a new person to carry them every night. Some of the Halos that started hot early have cooled a little bit and the slow starters have picked them up. I have to agree with Gammons and I see this team 10 games up by the break. I can’t wait for the hype to end and this team at 100%.

The last thing I loved seeing was, after all of the huge plays the defense made, the team is getting fired up. Early in the season the team was flat and it seemed they were having a tough time having fun. I think a huge part was the tragic loss of Nick. It almost seems like they have gotten back to the Angels of old. Torii got this team fired up in the bottom of the 9th today and I can’t wait to see how these guys come out Tuesday against Boston.

Good luck Halos!