Angels Bullpen Woes Lead to 6-4 Loss

He sucked in bigs, sucked in AAA…lets put him in a tie game. Did all our relievers that actually get outs all leave? What about Downs or Thompson who both have earned some trust with a game on the line?

Sosh gets my vote for BOTG

BULLSHIT play…BULLSHIT jepson…BULLSHIT morales news..BULLSHIT day for halo fans! And yes bullshit play cuz it was against us!! Against texas that wuda been a beautiful play!

He said this surgery was elective and no one the Angels asked him to get it. Supposedly it is clear out scar tissue. In 1999 when Mo Vaughn had that bad ankle injury he supposedly went to some ballet dance instructor person and broke up the scar tissue with some exercises that are known to those types because of similar injuries arising in dance.

As the Mike Trout watch 2011 event officially begins tonight

Shaq couldn’t have caught that (even when he could jump)

He failed to do his job, plain and simple. Sosh was an idiot with the bullpen yet again: Thompson throwing one pitch in the 7th and not going back out for the 8th was asinine. But Walden had a 2 run lead and his job is to finish off the other team. He couldn’t find his command and blew the save.

As for Jepsen, that was simply pathetic. How do you throw an intentional ball 5 feet over your catcher’s head? Tonight was an embarrassment. March 12 was a shitty day in Angels baseball. Let’s move on.

you can’t expect guys to go out and win all the time against teams with losing records. you can’t blame a pitcher at the major league level to throw 4 intentional balls to the catcher without letting 1 get away. and bunting is not part of the regular game that hitters at this level should know how to do. i mean, you learn these things in little league, and you make to the bigs and your around 20-26yrs. old. that’s like 10 to 15 yrs. of doing it, so i think you guys are expecting too much from some of these guys.

he is going to be the steal of the offseason. at least 28-30 dingers and an everyday player at 1st. hmmm looks like we should have looked into that

it is not very wise to expect trumbo to carry the big stick for this team, some vet. exp. would be a godsend for him. torii doesn’t have it and wells surely doesn’t have it. there is really nobody on this team right now to help get him good atbats. by that i mean a viable threat to hit one out, so you have to make good pitches to multiple power hitters instead of 1

is the only thing that made me smile tonight.

I hate the way he is handling the bullpen. It doesn’t make any sense to bring in Thompson for one batter and then turning the game over to a crummy pitcher like Rodney just because it is the eight inning.

Say what you want about Fraudney or Scioscia’s bullpen management… your closer should be able to close out the ninth with a two run lead. That’s his job.

I was coming home from work check the score on my phone the angels were winning 4-1 after 7. I called the wife to say "i’m coming home and the angels are winning 4-1 after 7. She she’s if I want her to tape it I say no its looking good. If it gets close I’ll be home at least for the nith inning. Then a minute later it says Rodney is piching and I call the wife tell her Oh no the relievers are taking over and to tape the game. I come home play it from the top of 8 and watch the disaster the rest of the way. Un freakin real.
On a positive note we are still 1.5 games ahead of oakland and texas. If we have the bull pen of years past when after the 7th with a lead we almost always win, we’d probably be at least 5 games up and it would be without our best hitter. This thanks to our awesome starting pitching, they have taken their lumps too but its been one of the best in baeball so far. Come on bull pen get it together. Step up or get sent down, no matter how much you make. Getting ridiculous, like watching last year when our bullpen tried to hold and save games.