one thing that is undisputed about this team

[stormngt]

They can't hit with sh*t when they take extended days off. First post all star game and now the alds.

[Angel Oracle]

Whose fault is that? Other teams can hit after extended breaks!

One common denominator through all of this: Mike Dusty Baker Scioscia.

If it wasn't for Baker being the Giants manager, we would still have zero WS tities. What do you expect from two Lamoutha protégés?

Edited October 4, 2014 by Angel Oracle

[FabulousFabregas]

Whose fault is that? Other teams can hit after extended breaks!

[Guest]

They hit better when they wear red alternate jerseys.

[AngelArcher]

But he rested the starters and gave a bunch of scrubs playing time to see if they'll be useful in the postseason. It was sound strategy.

[tennischmp]

They should fire the Manager for not having them ready

[Angel Oracle]

This team has become stale under his watch.

15 years is longggg enough!

[stormngt]

Blaming Scioscia is idiotic. He isn't telling Trout Pujols 5 pop up everything

[laagamer]

Whose fault is that? Other teams can hit after extended breaks!

One common denominator through all of this: Mike Dusty Baker Scioscia.

If it wasn't for Baker being the Giants manager, we would still have zero WS tities. What do you expect from two Lamoutha protégés?

 

How?

This is stupidly ridiculous. 

[Jay]

But he rested the starters and gave a bunch of scrubs playing time to see if they'll be useful in the postseason. It was sound strategy.

 

Then he went ahead and started Hamilton anyway.

[Jay]

The only thing I blame Scioscia for is sticking with Hamilton after he was so bad on Thursday.  

 

 

The rest of it is just bad hitting by the Angels.  When they play like this you know they're going to lose.  We lost both games in the 11th but those games should have been over long before the 11th.  Eventually somebody will score a run and you know it's not going to be the Angels.  It's painful to watch.

 

These KC Royals look more like the 2002 Angels than we do.

[Stradling]

But he rested the starters and gave a bunch of scrubs playing time to see if they'll be useful in the postseason. It was sound strategy.

I thought he did that at the urging of everyone here to avoid injuries to key players.

[Troll Daddy]

Whose fault is that? Other teams can hit after extended breaks!

One common denominator through all of this: Mike Dusty Baker Scioscia.

If it wasn't for Baker being the Giants manager, we would still have zero WS tities. What do you expect from two Lamoutha protégés?

 

I think you mean Spiezio

[stormngt]

There isn't a manager in baseball that wouldn't play Hamilton over Navarro or Cowgill. If you want to bitch than complain about Calhoun bunting in game 1. That is the only move that didn't make sense and fair for criticism.

The only thing I blame Scioscia for is sticking with Hamilton after he was so bad on Thursday.

The rest of it is just bad hitting by the Angels. When they play like this you know they're going to lose. We lost both games in the 11th but those games should have been over long before the 11th. Eventually somebody will score a run and you know it's not going to be the Angels. It's painful to watch.

These KC Royals look more like the 2002 Angels than we do.

[tennischmp]

There isn't a manager in baseball that wouldn't play Hamilton over Navarro or Cowgill. If you want to bitch than complain about Calhoun bunting in game 1. That is the only move that didn't make sense and fair for criticism.

 

I got one manager for you. His first name and last name start with B and he has 2 championships in the last 4 years.

[Blarg]

Whose fault is that? Other teams can hit after extended breaks!

One common denominator through all of this: Mike Dusty Baker Scioscia.

If it wasn't for Baker being the Giants manager, we would still have zero WS tities. What do you expect from two Lamoutha protégés?

 

I think it is Don Baylor's department to get the players prepared for the game offensively.

[Angels]

There isn't a manager in baseball that wouldn't play Hamilton over Navarro or Cowgill. If you want to bitch than complain about Calhoun bunting in game 1. That is the only move that didn't make sense and fair for criticism.

Sure they would, if the circumstances warranted it.

You're either blind or insane if you think playing Hamilton is the right move. In fact, he shouldn't have even been on the postseason roster.

[tennischmp]

Barry Zito was left off the roster and never pitched in the post season in 2010. Hamilton would be riding the pine if he was in SF.

[Troll Daddy]

There isn't a manager in baseball that wouldn't play Hamilton over Navarro or Cowgill. If you want to bitch than complain about Calhoun bunting in game 1. That is the only move that didn't make sense and fair for criticism.

Explain to me why that move didn't make sense?

[joeywings]

Explain to me why that move didn't make sense?

2-0 and 3-1 counts.

[Guest]

There isn't a manager in baseball that wouldn't play Hamilton over Navarro or Cowgill. If you want to bitch than complain about Calhoun bunting in game 1. That is the only move that didn't make sense and fair for criticism.

 

At most Hamilton should have started game 1 at DH with Cowgill playing left field and Cron replacing Hamilton when appropriate as a pinch hitter.

[Angels]

2-0 and 3-1 counts.

More than that, though. It would've taken the bat away from the best player in the world. They would've walked him.

[Sully151]

More than that, though. It would've taken the bat away from the best player in the world. They would've walked him.

Which is the only way the best player in the world would have been in base that night.

[gurn67]

Barry Zito was left off the roster and never pitched in the post season in 2010. Hamilton would be riding the pine if he was in SF.

He also benched his highest paid (and most unproductive) position player, Aaron Rowand.

[Glen]

The only thing I blame Scioscia for is sticking with Hamilton after he was so bad on Thursday.  

 

 

The rest of it is just bad hitting by the Angels.  When they play like this you know they're going to lose.  We lost both games in the 11th but those games should have been over long before the 11th.  Eventually somebody will score a run and you know it's not going to be the Angels.  It's painful to watch.

 

These KC Royals look more like the 2002 Angels than we do.

 

 

Bingo.  I've been plenty critical of Scioscia in the past (and have often called for him to be replaced, even if it's only to get a fresh face in the dugout) and he has made a few bad decisions so far in the ALDS, but the first two losses fall squarely on the hitters.  In the first game, they had RISP in the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth innings - all it would have taken was one hit in any of those inning and the game was over.  That's not Scioscia's fault.  In the second game, once again there were multiple innings with RISP that were choked away.  Once again, that's on the hitters.