Extras Take Braves Over Angels 5-4, Joel Pineiro Denies Himself 100th.
by Stirrups on May 21, 2011 11:09 PM PDT
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The night started off blazingly well, with a (now) rare Bobby Abreu home run in the bottom of the first, bringing in Erick Aybar for a 2 - 0 lead. After the Friday game, it surely felt as if the Angels had peeled their offense back off the side of the milk carton. A Torii Hunter single in the bottom of the 5th drove in Maicer Izturis and Abreu, and the Halos were up 4-0.
And then the wheels came off the bus. Hunter, unable to pass up his second knucklehead opportunity on the basepaths, found a way to get thrown out at second base by a country mile for the second consecutive attempt. The Halo bats went dead silent for the balance of the night as the Braves outhit the Angels 17 to 5.
The contest spiraled down into a Mack Sennet slapstick comedy, as we saw umps blowing wide open calls, players forgetting to run to first base on their own sac bunt, CENTER FIELDERS retrieving ground balls IN SHALLOW LEFT FIELD off of a fielding error by A SECOND BASEMAN.
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Meanwhile, Mike Scioscia burned through the entire bullpen with a masterful job of resource management considering a Sunday day game just hours into the future.
Things came to a thrilling halt in the 12th, when the Braves combined a 2-out ground ball single up the middle (off Trevor Bell!) with a bonehead boot by Alexi Amarista along with a slow flare to right field. Note that they found the out-of-gas Abreu (Bourjos needing to run all the way from center to claim the booted ball off Amarista) and the out-of-gas Hunter (unable to track down the soft fly ball near the line, in order to "manufacture" the winning run.
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Pimp Smacked by some Atl playas in our own hood on a saturday night.
Goodness
Torii Hunter Batting Average Watch:.225
by deejayelleseven on May 21, 2011 11:10 PM PDT reply actions
When I wake up tomorrow I better read
Alexi has been sent to AAS
Jeff Mathis Batting Average Watch: .193
by ryanfea on May 21, 2011 11:12 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
I blame Lindsay Soto
Throwing off the team chemistry
Swung on and missed, he struck him out! ~ Terry Smith
Angels' 2011 W-L record with the alternate red jersey: 6-5
She looks like she has been ridden pretty hard. Numerous times.
"...the error of age is to believe that experience is a substitute for intelligence." - Lymon Bryson (1888-1959) pulling a Nostradomus on Torii Hunter's baserunning ass.
Guess I was giving her
the benefit of the doubt there. Stress or “stress”?
Swung on and missed, he struck him out! ~ Terry Smith
Angels' 2011 W-L record with the alternate red jersey: 6-5
by blast21dave on May 22, 2011 11:58 AM PDT up reply actions
yea yea I know lay off of Soth
but playing for the tie in that situation was absurd. We were already on our last reliever and a tie puts us in a less than 50/50 situation given the bullpen situation. Show some balls and call for a hit and run there. The one thing Amarista seems to do fairly well is at least make contact. Could have turned it into a single there, then had Bourjos bunt them over to 2nd and 3rd.
Also I know Pinero was throwing a shutout when he ran into trouble, but the guy gave up 11 hits in 6 1/3 innings, it was not a good start and letting him give up that double seemed a bit much for my liking.
Also he had Takashitty facing their best lefties in the 7th with 1 out. Why not just bring in Downs then who is w/o a doubt our best reliever. Instead he comes in and pitches well in a tie game.
So many blown situations/moves by Soth.
Vernon Well's Current Average = .179 Current # of outs = Don't ask him
TY Tony!
I agree about Downs
Should’ve had him in to finish off the 7th, and he still could have pitched the 8th. Also, it’s really irksome that Thompson got only one shot at high leverage innings. I know he blew his chance, but he’s had one bad inning. That’s significantly less than the number of bad innings from Rodney and Takahashi, and they still get opportunities in the 7th and 8th innings.
I had an issue with that 9th inning play as well. I wanted to see Howie pinch hit for Alexi. Soth couldn’t moved Izzy to 2nd and Howie to DH if he didn’t want Howie to play the field. They said he was available to pinch hit, and he’s our best hitter right now, so why not use him?
I was thinking the same thing re: Howie, but...
http://twitter.com/SamMillerOCR/status/72184917454364672
Howie, it turns out, wasn’t available to pinch-hit. Saw Dr. Yocum before the game. “Got a little medicine,” Sosh said. Won’t play tomorrow.
Ahhh, that makes more sense then
I read before the game that he was available to pinch hit. I must have missed that update. Thanks.
I think Soth wants MLB to increase the roster size
so he can carry 15 blowpen relievers, each one pitching to just one individual.
CONGER, CONGER, CONGER !!!
He would use the need for more pitchers as his excuse to get the rule change, then ...
load up on catchers with that extra bench space.
conger over mathis is losing some steam!!
Yes mathis is the worst player on the planet but now that hanks struggling scioscia’s gonna feel a whole lot better playing his lover boy more!! Dammit hank!!! We’re doomed!!!!
by chap on May 21, 2011 11:15 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
And to think that we kept Mathis, and gave him a raise, while Russell Martin was there to be had for nothin'
A trio of Martin/Wilson/Conger would surely have looked pretty damned good by now. We know what the alternative actually looks like.
"...the error of age is to believe that experience is a substitute for intelligence." - Lymon Bryson (1888-1959) pulling a Nostradomus on Torii Hunter's baserunning ass.
I still say sign Russell Branyan
we need some pop off the bench. I’m tired of slap hitting midget infielders consuming our lineup. Branyan makes too much sense….so we probably won’t sign him.
Jeff Mathis sucks.
AL West looking like garbage
No team above .500 right now.
Swung on and missed, he struck him out! ~ Terry Smith
Angels' 2011 W-L record with the alternate red jersey: 6-5
Nelson Cruz and Josh Hamilton out
plus Ian Kinsler batting a low .200 and yet were still behind the Rangers smdh.
Torii Hunter Batting Average Watch:.225
by deejayelleseven on May 21, 2011 11:22 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
and Tommy Hunter and Darren O'Day.
When the Rangers get healthy….we’re screwed.
Jeff Mathis sucks.
by Halosfan777 on May 21, 2011 11:24 PM PDT up reply actions
That's a lot of free agent big splashes coming back for them.
Pollyanna is dead. But don't get mad at me, I didn't kill her. Tony Reagins did.
Sosh needs to be fired.
What do you need a fancy suit for, Charlie, you ain't got no job to wear it to.
how would you "access" his performance?
I love this team.
by Downing Rules on May 21, 2011 11:19 PM PDT up reply actions
His baserunning is the worse I've ever seen.
"Ballplayers play baseball." -Jose Mota
by Fred Fredrix on May 22, 2011 4:22 AM PDT up reply actions
These are the times that try fans souls.
My response to your letter of February 19, 1976, is - kiss my ass.
Sincerely,
Bill Baxley, Attorney General
by sheisalovelyladyandmyapologiestoher on May 21, 2011 11:21 PM PDT reply actions
Howie wasn't avaliable tonight...
again, just waiting to hear how many weeks or months or years he’s out.
Jeff Mathis sucks.
When the game goes into extra innings our guys should just head to the showers...
since they seem unable to win an extra innings game. Also don’t be picking on Bobby’s lack of home runs so far this season, I guarantee by the end of the season he will have his 15-20 home runs.
You haven't been paying attention to his falling slugging percentage the last few years.
The power is gone and he’s just about done. That vesting option for 2012 will be fun. Another great move by Tony Reagins.
Pollyanna is dead. But don't get mad at me, I didn't kill her. Tony Reagins did.
^^this^^ sucks, but ^^this^^
My response to your letter of February 19, 1976, is - kiss my ass.
Sincerely,
Bill Baxley, Attorney General
by sheisalovelyladyandmyapologiestoher on May 21, 2011 11:28 PM PDT up reply actions
before anyone talks about firing soth
please get rid of the biggest dumbass we have….TR. I get sick to my stomach just thinking about him.
Jeff Mathis sucks.
by Halosfan777 on May 21, 2011 11:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Umm, Bobby's not the problem
A .394 OBP? Highest OBP for a A DH, second highest for an LF? He’s on base 4 out of every 10 ABs? We could use more of that.
Abreu’s not the problem. He’s no Matt Holliday, but he’s far from the goat here.
"If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base." ~Dave Barry
Yeah really sucks to have his .390 Obp on the team
Release him now
Jeff Mathis Batting Average Watch: .193
by ryanfea on May 21, 2011 11:52 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
I was wrong to say done, but the power is gone and not coming back.
Pollyanna is dead. But don't get mad at me, I didn't kill her. Tony Reagins did.
by snowhor on May 22, 2011 10:50 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
amarista single handedly lost this game for us...
But once again relying so heavily on all these youngsters is just plain sad!! Trumbo bourjos and conger should be just trying to pitch in a little and learn from the vets. But instead they’re relied upon so much and if they don’t hit we lose plain and simple. The biggest problem we have is that besides 2nite torii,wells and abreu just plain suck!!! And are horrible vets to learn from!
by chap on May 21, 2011 11:27 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
now go home n getcha f'n shinebox!
What do you need a fancy suit for, Charlie, you ain't got no job to wear it to.
by clover_black on May 21, 2011 11:30 PM PDT up reply actions
How come our fielding has become so bad?
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"Yes but" is the best way on earth to stay broke and subservient -Rev. Halofan
by Greyson Peltier on May 21, 2011 11:53 PM PDT reply actions
Well.....
Tonight was pretty much one guy’s fielding that was bad.
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Want to make comments….. alcohol abounds
Gotta have more Kowbell
but you can blame a player with 15 career ABs?
NA, #34 SP, LAA
Light up the Halo for Nick!
More Howie please...
Where is Pineiro for BotG?
That 3-run homer plus the 4th run all belonged to him.
Angels baseball. We do what we must, because we can -- HaloDutch
Amarista was so overwhelming, Conger was already the throwaway running mate.
I just felt that getting completely shutout for 6 innings by the Braves bullpen was a slightly greater story than the starter giving up 4 runs over 7 innings.
By the way, interesting trivia: the umpire at second base in this game, who completely blew that call on Abreu’s throw is DJ Reyburn, turns out to be the same guy who took the punch from Jose Offerman in Winter League a year ago.
"...the error of age is to believe that experience is a substitute for intelligence." - Lymon Bryson (1888-1959) pulling a Nostradomus on Torii Hunter's baserunning ass.
Must have been a powerful blow
Dude obviously still can’t see straight
NA, #34 SP, LAA
Light up the Halo for Nick!
More Howie please...
BOTG MLB.com
For broadcasting this God-forsaken game as its “free game of the day,” leading those of us who watched it, to lose untold hours of their respective lives…which we can never recover.
NA, #34 SP, LAA
Light up the Halo for Nick!
More Howie please...
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