Dog Days Come Early This Summer. A's defeat Angels 5-3 as Halos Extend All-Star Break

by Stirrups on Jul 15, 2011 10:27 PM PDT in Angels Postgame

One of the few bright spots of the night: the umps try and hand us one. Yet a moment after this pic, Jeffy is gifted a tag out on a play where he did so, but too late.

On Bring Your Pooch To Smooch Night in Oakland, the offense of Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim took the warnings of Carmegeddon to heart, and stayed home this Friday evening. Not even the additional vertebrate butts could fill the seats, which was probably a good thing as those that did arrive were less than entertained by this uninspired showing of the game of baseball.

With Vernon Wells out sick, Dan Haren looking extremely un-sharp, Torii Hunter with 4 fairly lame appearances at the plate, Howie rather quiet, no Bourjos, Aybar as mercurial as ever: this whole evening restored all bad memories of the first half of the 2011 season.

On the positive side, Trout got clutch hit and RBI. And Scioscia peeled back the gates of hell and poured in all the glaciers that have broken off of Antartica when, with the bases loaded, he LIFTED JEFF MATHIS FOR A PINCH HITTER!! Maicer Izturis then proceeded to demonstrate the wisdom of this act by doing absolutely nothing (even that being something clearly beyond the powers of Mathis), drawing a 4 pitch walk to drive in a run.

All for naught. We lose.

Poll

Blame Of The Game

Dan "Suck On The Road" Haren

55 votes

Erick "Screw The Situation" Aybar

115 votes

Torii "LOB" Hunter

112 votes

Howie "Opportunity Only Knocks Once" Kendrick

15 votes

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Erick over-anxious Aybar got my vote.

A wise man does not need advice and a fool won't take it.

by angelslogic on Jul 15, 2011 10:31 PM PDT reply actions

Kendrick and Hunter

by ~MMP~ on Jul 15, 2011 10:31 PM PDT reply actions

Fair point.

Fixed.

All-time Single Season GIDP Record: 36 (Jim Rice, 1984). Torii Hunter GIDP 2011 to date: 19 (53% of the way there, 57% of the way through the season!)

by Stirrups on Jul 15, 2011 10:37 PM PDT up reply actions

I just read this to the DuPar's restaurant crowd

They loved it Stirrups!

by Rev Halofan on Jul 15, 2011 10:36 PM PDT via mobile reply actions

Tell them thanks.

I’ll be appearing nightly until the 21st.

(Not my best work, actually. It suddenly occured to me with 2 outs in the 9th that I was the only editor on the board tonight. I rushed it. It feels like a good, solid, double instead of the home run that was there for me to mash with all the material gifted tonight.)

All-time Single Season GIDP Record: 36 (Jim Rice, 1984). Torii Hunter GIDP 2011 to date: 19 (53% of the way there, 57% of the way through the season!)

by Stirrups on Jul 15, 2011 10:39 PM PDT up reply actions

Stirrups "caught with his guard down" Stirrups

But he follows with the hay maker. You should go, and ride, your bicycle on the 405 tomorrow.

by eyespy on Jul 16, 2011 2:29 AM PDT up reply actions

Happy I was watching Harry Potter instead of a repeat of Crappy Angels.

Great movie btw.

by aces666high on Jul 15, 2011 10:38 PM PDT reply actions

Kohn didn't help matters much either.

"It's our money," owner Arte Moreno said.

by 44FAN on Jul 15, 2011 10:39 PM PDT reply actions

Ya, it didn't end up making a difference, but that was bad.

by ~MMP~ on Jul 15, 2011 10:41 PM PDT up reply actions

It didn't hurt the team, but it sure didn't help his chances to get the call in future contests.

All-time Single Season GIDP Record: 36 (Jim Rice, 1984). Torii Hunter GIDP 2011 to date: 19 (53% of the way there, 57% of the way through the season!)

by Stirrups on Jul 15, 2011 10:42 PM PDT up reply actions

Some good examples of Mathis' superior defensive skills at the plate tonight.

Sure he’s offensively challenged but DO NOT try to get to the plate when that guy is guarding it, right?

Right?

"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

by LAASurfin on Jul 15, 2011 10:57 PM PDT reply actions

Jackson was safe.

As was Gwynn a couple weeks ago.

All-time Single Season GIDP Record: 36 (Jim Rice, 1984). Torii Hunter GIDP 2011 to date: 19 (53% of the way there, 57% of the way through the season!)

by Stirrups on Jul 15, 2011 11:06 PM PDT up reply actions

Yes, I know.

Quite safe. As was the prior runner, crossing the plate while the one-hopper clanked off Mathis premium mitt.

"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

by LAASurfin on Jul 15, 2011 11:12 PM PDT up reply actions