Six Run Fifth Dooms Angels, Vladimir Guerrero Injured

by Rev Halofan on Jul 7, 2009 10:33 PM PDT in Angels Postgame

Final Score in Los Angeles of Anaheim: Rangers 8, Angels 5

Relegated to Designated Hitter when he wasn't on the Disabled List this season, Angel Right Fielder Vladimir Guerrero showed why he is a DH, twisting his knee awkwardly fielding an easy single hit right to him. He was removed from the game immediately. The official prognosis is a strained muscle behind his right knee according to FSN West's drooling pervert/postgame announcer Bill MacDonald. Thank you Montreal concrete turf. To think that Jim Rice played in a little league park and got into the Hall of Fame and Andre Dawson was more dominant in Montreal and all it got him was a limp and ignored after the applause faded.

Vladimir Guerrero will likely be listed as Day-to-Day and that popped out of this stream of consciousness monologue before I even bothered checking with my sources (aka: The Team Website).

John Lackey put two idiots on with two outs in the 5th in a game he was cruisin' thru effortlessly. All of a sudden he hangs a pitch on a tee to Andruw Jones and bammo the score is tied. Then a hit a walk, something else, a base-clearing double and bam-bammo, the Angels are back in a tie for 1st place.

So it is 6-3 but we push and make it 6-4 and then Bobby Abreu strikes out with the bases loaded. The next inning Mike Napoli flies out with the bases loaded and two outs, so the Angels were in this stinker of a game. No word on whether any of them attended Michael Jackson's funeral at the Staples Center or whether mentioning that in a post will yield me 500,000 surch-injun hits between now and tomorrow morning.

Basically, Lackey walked the tightrope and nibbled too long before it snapped out of precise alignment in our favor. Then we could not come thru with El Clutcho and the game ended and we play Texas again tomorrow.

The awesome Juan Rivera hit two solo homers in the game.

Poll

Blame of the Game

Torii Hunter

2 votes

John Lackey

250 votes

Mike Napoli

16 votes

Matt Palmer

4 votes

272 votes | Poll has closed

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How do you give up 6 runs with 2 outs??????

The time is out of joint; oh cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right.

by chairmanofthebar on Jul 7, 2009 10:36 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs

Which Lackey and Santana will show up is now a mystery.

Let the Halo power flow!

by HALO N BRIMSTONE on Jul 7, 2009 10:43 PM PDT up reply actions

Think this tranny knows Eddie Murphy?

by PieceOfAase on Jul 8, 2009 2:09 AM PDT up reply actions

EXACTLY.

Do it for Nick '09

by BryanHarvey'sMoustache on Jul 7, 2009 10:50 PM PDT up reply actions

5th Inning

"Boy, did he drop a huge deuce in the stands!" (About a two-run homer)
Rex Hudler

by devildogamp on Jul 7, 2009 10:37 PM PDT reply actions

Hopefully the Angels score 15 runs tomorrow

With Santana injured version 2009 pitching

RIP Nick Adenhart

by stolenbases on Jul 7, 2009 10:39 PM PDT reply actions

by Scotty G on Jul 7, 2009 10:40 PM PDT reply actions

The iPhone always worked.

Play Wood already. Willits sucks.

by hauldog on Jul 8, 2009 10:27 AM PDT up reply actions

If you used the full site version, yes.

The change made recently was on the SBNation side to the mobile site version, not anything to do with the client side. If you accessed the sites using the mobile URL, the pages did not include a post button.

We don't have a Bullpen. We have a Cowpen. Before we get to call it a Bullpen these guys gotta grow a pair.

by Stirrups on Jul 8, 2009 4:35 PM PDT up reply actions

My Samsung Upstage has always worked too........but I had to download OperaMini!

Put Kendry Morales at 1B, and move Sean Rodriguez to 3B......NOW LETS GO WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by acuda27 on Jul 8, 2009 2:30 PM PDT up reply actions

Where's Lackey?

Big John has looked like an amateur thus far, poor guy!

Let the Halo power flow!

by HALO N BRIMSTONE on Jul 7, 2009 10:41 PM PDT reply actions

On the bright side

His contract price should be going down

RIP Nick Adenhart

by stolenbases on Jul 7, 2009 10:43 PM PDT up reply actions

That was my first thought.

by BrentSchmidt on Jul 7, 2009 11:21 PM PDT up reply actions

Just when things are kinda lookin up

Vlad gets injured and the pitching staff is breaking down

Please get rid of Speier and Aybar. And Jepsen. R.I.P. Nick Adenhart, Marquis Cooper, Steve McNair

by JoseGuillenSux on Jul 7, 2009 10:42 PM PDT reply actions

ShelLACKEY'd

I love this team.

by Downing Rules on Jul 7, 2009 10:42 PM PDT reply actions

But Juan is still tearin it up

good for him

Please get rid of Speier and Aybar. And Jepsen. R.I.P. Nick Adenhart, Marquis Cooper, Steve McNair

by JoseGuillenSux on Jul 7, 2009 10:48 PM PDT reply actions

Injured Vlad means Napoli gets to DH and Mathis goes behind the plate...

not the end of the world.

Do it for Nick '09

by BryanHarvey'sMoustache on Jul 7, 2009 10:50 PM PDT reply actions

Looks like Lackey is going to win big in the BOTG vote

RIP Nick Adenhart

by stolenbases on Jul 7, 2009 11:02 PM PDT reply actions

I don't think I've ever seen him implode like that.

Yeah, he’s had bad outings, but I’ve never seen him cruising and then go over the cliff.

Angels fan since '67

by red floyd on Jul 8, 2009 8:28 AM PDT up reply actions

You missed many games, then, because IIRC, he used to always have "one bad inning" ...

You must not remember him from 2002, 3 and 4!

Sheesh… we went through some TERRIBLE times with Lackey in 2003 to 2005. Looking at his
game logs is making me cringe.

I love this team.

by Downing Rules on Jul 8, 2009 12:30 PM PDT up reply actions

correction: the game listed as 3/4/03 is actually 4/22/03.

I love this team.

by Downing Rules on Jul 8, 2009 12:31 PM PDT up reply actions

I always close my eyes and cringe when Lackey pitches any inning that begins with the number "5".

We don't have a Bullpen. We have a Cowpen. Before we get to call it a Bullpen these guys gotta grow a pair.

by Stirrups on Jul 8, 2009 4:36 PM PDT up reply actions

My bad.

I should have said “since 2005”

Angels fan since '67

by red floyd on Jul 9, 2009 9:19 AM PDT up reply actions

No sweat, I just wanted to see those implosions up there in link-format to soothe me when Lackey walks this off-season.

I love this team.

by Downing Rules on Jul 9, 2009 10:52 AM PDT up reply actions

Incidentally

I don’t count 7/20/02, 4/10/04, 5/30/04, or 8/31/04 as “implosions”. He started out bad there. I was talking about cruising for several innings, and all of a sudden… BOOM!

7/20/02 also gets treated with kid gloves, as it was his rookie season.

Angels fan since '67

by red floyd on Jul 9, 2009 4:08 PM PDT up reply actions

Incidentally also:

IMHO…he gets a pass for ALL OF THIS MESS based on this box score alone:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ANA/ANA200210270.shtml

I love this team.

by Downing Rules on Jul 9, 2009 5:29 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs

Rec'd

Angels fan since '67

by red floyd on Jul 10, 2009 3:52 PM PDT up reply actions

You got me on that technicality. The fact remains that he has shit the bed on NUMEROUS occasions. Just not this far into the game after tossing up zeros for so many consecutive.

I love this team.

by Downing Rules on Jul 9, 2009 5:32 PM PDT up reply actions

Juancho Rivera is awesome

Don't call me Desmond

by highlandhalo on Jul 7, 2009 11:22 PM PDT reply actions

Lackey

1st inning Fastball avg speed: 93.9
2nd: 92.8
3rd: 92.6
4th: 92.125
5th: (the first three pitches are missing from GD) 92

No real velocity drop, however he starts relying more and more on his breaking balls, which could explain some of his problems

34 - N.J.A - R.I.P

by Figgi4life on Jul 7, 2009 11:29 PM PDT reply actions

His breaking balls

Were near unhittable until he got a couple of them up. And by up, I mean up only a little. I was resigned to a Rangers’ loss until that inning.

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) also -

"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
~Ambrose Bierce

by Ed Coffin on Jul 8, 2009 12:13 AM PDT up reply actions

I was a that game

it was great until the 5th inning then it was just down hill from there.

Seeing Vlad get hurt sucked, if he is out for a while thats gonna be a huge blow to the offense, i hope he bounces back soon.

Also i want to give big props to Juan Rivera for hitting 2 home runs and not giving up in the ninth inning down by 4 runs with 2 outs. Juan went up in my book for the way he played tonight.

by dmoney2741 on Jul 7, 2009 11:39 PM PDT reply actions

I believe he's

day-to-day

34 - N.J.A - R.I.P

by Figgi4life on Jul 7, 2009 11:41 PM PDT up reply actions

So you want ace money, eh Lackey?

The way you’re going, you’ll be lucky to get Dunn/Abreu $$. Another lackluster game.

by PieceOfAase on Jul 8, 2009 12:31 AM PDT reply actions

Pitching, pitching:

My Kingdom for some pitching.

Angel Pitching, Angel Defense - get past that.

by vladtheimpaler on Jul 8, 2009 12:38 AM PDT reply actions

Vlad likes to complain about being a DH

so they let him play the field and look what happens. You need to learn Vladdy, you’re an old man. You can’t run anymore

RIP Nick. We will miss you!

by KingF15h on Jul 8, 2009 5:18 AM PDT reply actions

True,though in all fairness can’t blame a competitor for wanting to go out there..He made a few nice catches,but when he got hurt I was mad as heck and wondering why they had him out there in the first place..He is your DH for the year..He is lucky to be back at all after that type of injury.. Hopefully they will learn that he is no more then a great DH..
As for Naps DH, I am not sure you DH your back up catcher..If Vlad has to go to DL,maybe they call up a catcher and DH Naps..
Let hope Vlad is back in a few days.

by raven191 on Jul 8, 2009 6:56 AM PDT up reply actions