Gameday Thread 5/5/14 - Cron hitting cleanup, Green batting 8th

[bloodbrother]

A CLEAN 9th by Frieri!

 

good win

[Ludwig Von Mises]

Great game. Love beating the Yanks and their ahole obnoxious fans.

Weaver gets the game ball.

[Homebrewer]

Best game this season so far

[shizziejoe]

great win! good outing by Frieri..hope Trout gets out of his little slump

[nando714]

Damn Skanks!!!

[Stradling]

It doesn't matter. They will still win tonight, but this is confirmation that Scoscia has to go. There is a 0% chance of winning a title with Frieri closing.

And I supported Scoscia until now.

This makes no sense. In this game he went with Frieri with a three run lead. He still had Smith to go to if Frieri got in trouble. Not to mention that Smith was already warmed up.

[Richard]

That 8th inning had it all. This went board went from doom to laughter all In the same inning. Thanks Girardi and Yankees!

[Troll Daddy]

I love Scioscia ... he just gave all of you the finger

Good stuff

Loved Weaver tonite!!!

Edited May 6, 2014 by Troll Daddy

[JAHV76]

Nice win tonight! Great game Weaver!

[Stradling]

Worst possible outcome. Best scenario was a blown save and we walk off in the bottom half. Second best was literally to LOSE THIS GAME. Now the only chance for this team to win a title is a Frieri injury (or if he blows it some more and gets a permanent demotion). Which sucks because he would be a great setup man so I would hate to root for an injury.

Unless this was just some Smith throwing too many warmup pitches thing; then I could shut up....

Ok, this is pathetic.

[shizziejoe]

a win is a win...with Seattle creeping up in the standings we need these wins! 

[Stradling]

Frieri had a 3-run lead last time he was closer. He's just one of those guys that has a dramatic difference in performance when closing, and every single piece of evidence shows this to be true. Literally every other pitcher on the team this year would be a better closer, including Herrera and Wall. I just cannot explain Scoscia this time outside of some kind of brain disorder.

Yep and last time he had already used Smith, this time he hadn't. Smith was already warm and available. If you think the second best scenario was for Frieri to lose this game for us then we will never see eye to eye.

[Caralho]

Smith was throwing up in the bullpen, that's why Ernesto came in to close it.

[AngelsAndRamsFan]

@MikeDiGiovanna: #Angels reliever Joe Smith was set to pitch ninth but got sick and threw up in bullpen.

I hope that's the real reason why Smith didn't close the game (sarcasm).

[Ludwig Von Mises]

Ha. I remember when Al Conin said "Sherm Corbett is throwing up in the bullpen" meaning that he had just started throwing.

Frieri against 3 consecutive lefties actually did make some sense in retrospect.

[krAbs]

Ha. I remember when Al Conin said "Sherm Corbett is throwing up in the bullpen" meaning that he had just started throwing.

Frieri against 3 consecutive lefties actually did make some sense in retrospect.

actually, kinda, yeah. can we have a platoon closer situation? i don't have much of a problem with him going out there and shutting down lefties.

[Lou]

Regardless of outcome, officially no reason to watch the rest of the season now. This would have to be one of the best teams all time to overcome Scoscia right now.

Frieri goes dominant setup man, terrible closer, dominant setup man....so Scoscia thinks he HAS to be the closer. Literally every piece of evidence says this is wrong.

 

See you next year.

[Lou]

I friggen love the outrage when people have no idea why certain moves are made.