Halos Lose and Swept by the Rangers

Mike, for not trusting his bullpen and keeping Weaver in too long ;)

Way to go, fellas. Oh well, at least the M’s aren’t the only ones who can make Texas “pitching” look good.

quite a feat

Swept.

Well, maybe it’s a wake up call. This team in theory should be better than this. In theory. But I’m beginning to think that, as Seitz has posited, this just isn’t going to be a very good team, and this begins the downward slide.

This team is lacking in fire.

Mandatory for LACKEY, ABREU, KENDRICK, Scot Shields and his crew, and Aybar.

Not Mandatory for Hunter, Morales, Weaver, Saunders, PALMER, Oliver, and Mike Napoli or Mathis.

It is boggling my mind that the offense is so stagnant and frankly un-powerful, Vlad has been on the DL for weeks, and we have top prospects just sitting in the Minors with promising power. I know that this is by no means a new argument but my God, can we not find Brandon Wood any at-bats? Jesus. Texas has almost 40 more home runs than us? I know they play where they play, but we are in dead last. I am most amazed that between Scioscia, Reagins and Arte, no one sees it our way.

I liked when Rex said something like- Oh man! If you want to give a championship trophy out in May, then oh yah, absolutely give it the Rangers. No doubt. But when they hand out the real trophy in September, it may be a different story.

Those red “halo-like” uni’s have zapped the Halos mojo.
Seriously, the Rangers are currently the better team. They look hungrier and they knew by beating the Halos they would solidify themselves as a serious contender at this point in the season. After all, the Angels are the measuring stick of the AL West. The Angels have owned the Rangers for years and they looked sick and tired of that. The timing was right for the Rangers for this series.
I was hoping to see a little more fire in the Angels belly after they watched the Rangers celebrate each victory like a college football team celebrating a national title. But that never happened.
For me, if I were the Angels I would not panic, but I would definitely be out to send a message to the Rangers from this point on.
Once the Halos get Lackey, Santana, Escobar, & Vlad back for a solid couple of months(along with the rest of the starting lineup staying healthy), if they aren’t leading the division by 5 games than they are going to be in for a tough second half. Of course it’s expected of our starting pitching to get the Halos to the post season, however, will the usual suspects of the Angels offense be able to actually produce when they are sapposed to? I say NO.

Pitching was good enough to win 2 of the 3 games (Sat & Sun).
Offense was good enough to win 1 of the 3 games (Fri).
Just didn’t put it together in the right order, or get the right breaks at the right times. So goes the game of baseball.
There’s still a long way to go. At this time, the Rangers look like legitimate contenders. Let’s see how they look in August (injuries, heat, etc.).

Let Texas bask in the glow (deservedly so) for now. Wait until September though and see what happens when seats in the lifeboat start becoming scarce.

I love Soth, but man this is just getting ridiculous. And it stinks that this is gonna be the whole year. Slap hitters and singles. Besides Hunter Napoli and Morales there is not one person that would scare me as a pitcher. I hate to rag, but man it is just getting old.