What happened to the offense?

[Chimi]

They've looked awful the last two games. I guess the break came at the wrong time. We had the to ahead run on 3rd with 0 outs in the 8th and we failed to score.

Oh well, can't win them all.

[tdawg87]

Most of it is Felix and Iwakuma and the M's pen, but they haven't helped themselves at all so far. Just putting up some horrifying at bats the last two games.

[jshep]

Time to fire Baylor

[nando714]

Iwakuma + Felix + best BP in the game

[bloodbrother]

They certainly aren't putting in quality AB's, which hasn't helped, but a lot of it is Mariners pitching. Facing Felix and Iwakuma is tough. I'm happy with a split so far vs those 2. Wrap it up tomorrow

Edited July 20, 2014 by bloodbrother

[ten ocho recon scout]

Good pitching beats good hitting kind of thing

They 'should' have scored, but seattles pitching is solid as hell this year.

[Lou]

It's mind-boggling that Felix pitched a great game. It's so unlike him

[Agalloch]

Hmm...facing two of the top pitchers in the AL maybe?

 

 

That being said, hopefully when we're not facing these top tier starters everyone starts to put together better ABs.

Edited July 20, 2014 by Agalloch

[Glen]

It's mind-boggling that Felix pitched a great game. It's so unlike him

 

 

Cy Felix?

 

That said, it is a bit frustrating to see the offense come to a screeching halt after the last two weeks or so before the ASB.  

[jangel7]

You need to move runners and score on outs against tough pitchers. Angels are lacking in this area.

[Splint7438]

The team started winning at an outrageous clip when ibanez was released and Cron started playing regularly. Cron sent to AAA upset the balance a bit. Love Mac but Aybar is a much better hitter as well. Maybe those two would have helped. Plus our lefty specialist just had a bad game. Aside from that first double nothing was hit hard in that last inning. It's just a funny game

[Blarg]

Aybar is out of action and his bat is replaced by McDonald hitting .185.

[Glen]

The team started winning at an outrageous clip when ibanez was released and Cron started playing regularly. Cron sent to AAA upset the balance a bit. Love Mac but Aybar is a much better hitter as well. Maybe those two would have helped. Plus our lefty specialist just had a bad game. Aside from that first double nothing was hit hard in that last inning. It's just a funny game

 

 

In his last ten games he was batting .200.  Yes, getting rid of Ibanez was a good move but the team wasn't winning just because of Cron.

[Fregosi2Knoop]

The halos were facing the Rangers and Astros before the break. Now they're not.

[stormngt]

Facing two outstanding pitchers can do that

They've looked awful the last two games. I guess the break came at the wrong time. We had the to ahead run on 3rd with 0 outs in the 8th and we failed to score.

Oh well, can't win them all.

[fan_since79]

You need to move runners and score on outs against tough pitchers. Angels are lacking in this area.

 

Exactly. Pujols is back to his old habit of grounding weakly to the left side with a runner on second.

 

And then there's the stupid contact play which erased the go-ahead run late in the game.

[Stradling]

FS, you do realize that the contact play last night was the right move right? There's no outs and David Freese hits a ground ball to third with runners on the corner. Would you rather have first and second one out of runner on third with two outs? It's a no brainer.

[Stradling]

I wasn't able to watch the game but my guess is the reason we lost is we didn't capitalize on a lead off double in the ninth. I don't want to sound like an old dude but when I was growing up (early 80's), it seemed that fundamentals were better and it seemed like that run would score much more often.

[LAAMike]

There were some amazing opportunities for Hamilton to bunt last night with the shift being very exaggerated against him.  Why Is he not bunting to at least make the opponents have some doubts about using the shift against him?  Can Hamilton bunt?  The four strikeouts by Iannetta did not help either. 

[seenoevil]

Horrible fundamentals. Hamilton and Trout with base running errors. Need to take advantage of the little things when facing elite pitiching.

[Chimi]

I understand they are up against a great pitching staff but that's not really what I was getting at. The offense looked horrible regardless of who was on the mound. Some of the ABs were just down right comical. You could have out any pitching staff against the Angels the last two games and probably get the same result. They just didn't look very dialed in at all.

[Angel_Fan_4_Life]

Went to the game last night... With Calhoun struggling a bit lately, I was shocked that the two times he was up with a runner at first and Trout on deck, he didn't bunt.

 

Frustrating!!!