Final Score in Oakland: Angels 9 Athletics 4
The Angels came out swinging against the loathsome Oakland A's in front of their swinehustling bandwagon fans. The gelded A's offense looked like little leaguers against Jered Weaver who baffled them over six innings. Appearing on Sunday Night Baseball's national telecast for the first time in many years, all the ass-kissing of the ESPN crew couldn't make the A's look like winners when the Angels were mopping the floor with their pitching and befuddling their "hitting".
The best moment of the game, though, came in the sixth inning. With the score 8-0, Mike Trout homered deep to Center Field. The blast was a definite bomb but what was awesome was that the ESPN national announcers were drooling over their tag-team deepthroating of Derek Jeter with some pointless story of how Jete's testosterone tastes better than anything in heaven or on earth and they suddenly... Just. Stopped. Talking. Trout's blast was hit so hard, so far and so deep that they involuntarily just had to appreciate a baseball play on the west coast in ashamed silence. They never got to finish whatever inanity they were spewing, either, it was so awesome.
The true big hit of the game was a one-out double to center off of Scott Kazmir by Erick Aybar that scored Josh Hamilton and Howie Kendrick to break the second-inning scoreless tie. The Halos never looked back. In the third inning with the score 3-0 Josh Hamilton homered for two runs and Kazmir was looking like he did in his short, pathetic stint for the Halos, before he "retired" - right, you know if you retire you don't get drug tested until you return to pro ball. Just speculating about Kazmir's Kemistry.
Weaver was sublime thru six, giving up no runs on four hits with eight strikeouts but he let the A's pretend to creep back into it in the seventh, allowing a two-run homer to former Angel Alberto Callaspo and solo homer to some other faceless tradebait dweeb on Bully Beane's roulette roster. The bullpen shut it quick although Jason Grilli had just enough chaos about him in the ninth that Huston Street began soft tossing on the sidelines, so there is your pyrrhic victory Oakland, ask your astrologer what it means when a team is in first place as the New Moon occurs, Bay Area, because the Angels finish their 10-game road trip 7-3 with a one game lead and LIT HALO.