2.5 GB (Games Back)

[19HALO71]

That's Right!!

We're 2.5 games back with 16 to go.

Get behind this team and let's watch them play some October baseball.

 

Go Halos!!!

[Stradling]

I will say what Poozy said in the other thread. We are Mike Trout getting hot away from being in the post season. Now if Trout and Albert got hot for the next five weeks we could win it. Obviously that isn't likely.

[DMVol]

I will say what Poozy said in the other thread. We are Mike Trout getting hot away from being in the post season. Now if Trout and Albert got hot for the next five weeks we could win it. Obviously that isn't likely.

Albert is now in the .230's (.239)...If you take away his hot stretch in June/July, the rest of the season has been pretty much Rob Deer/Dave Kingman home run or nothing territory....I cringe when I think of 6 more years of 500 AB's.....

[Stradling]

I don't anticipate him going off the rest of the year. But when Albert went bonkers in July it came out of nowhere.

[Homebrewer]

Baseball Prospectus' WC probability went up to 7.4%

 

 

 

 

 

(Postseason probabilities are courtesy of Baseball Prospectus and indicate each team's probability of winning the division or wild card, or any postseason berth. Probabilities are based on thousands of Monte Carlo simulations of the remaining season schedule incorporating each team's year-to-date run differential, current roster composition, playing time projections and remaining schedule.)

[VariousCrap]

I will say what Poozy said in the other thread. We are Mike Trout getting hot away from being in the post season. Now if Trout and Albert got hot for the next five weeks we could win it. Obviously that isn't likely.

We don't even need Pujols to be as hot as he was in June/July. If he can just be half that hot, it would be awesome.

Edited September 18, 2015 by VariousCrap

[Angel Oracle]

Show us that you aren't finished, Albert!!!!!!!

This will take a team effort, all 35 of you!    Let's do this!

 

Big props to Morin's and Bedrosian's work over the past 3-4 weeks!

Edited September 18, 2015 by Angel Oracle

[Stradling]

I would probably put money down on those odds. What is that about 15-1? If we didn't play the teams in front of us I wouldn't make that kind of bet. But as bad as we've played the second half, the Astros, who are in front of us, have been just as bad. Also, there's a decent chance Texas will have everything wrapped up by the time we get there for the final four games.

[DMVol]

I don't anticipate him going off the rest of the year. But when Albert went bonkers in July it came out of nowhere.

True....hard to figure where it came from....Equally hard to figure where the struggles of July-Sept (except for a few homers) have come from.....I guess he's just become an all or nothing home run guy with a hot streak thrown in somewhere....My concern is that he is a proud guy and his manager (with the owner's blessing and support) will be penciling him in the 4 hole for the duration....not a good set up for the franchise...

[Angel Oracle]

The 18 doubles could be an indication of something gone wrong.

He has never, eeeever had so few doubles in so many games (141 so far in 2015). 

 

The .769 OPS is also virtually the same as the one in 2013 when the plantar fasciitis sent him home for the year after just 99 games, and is a vast drop off from where it was on June 23 (.920) of this season.   Even on July 21, it was at .879.

Since July 22 in 196 at bats:  .565 OPS, 6 doubles, 6 HRs

 

Someone needs to come clean, if he is hurting such that he needs to sit.

Even DHing most of the time isn't doing any good. 

Edited September 18, 2015 by Angel Oracle

[Adam]

I don't think it's a secret he's hurting. They said he was injured when they announced he couldn't play first base anymore

[19HALO71]

I just want opposing managers to start walking Trout to get to Pujols. I believe that this is something that will stoke his fire. He is a very proud man and when the Padres started doing that in June, he started hitting.

[Angel Oracle]

Having Cron hit well (close to .900 OPS in 205 at bats since July 1) in back of him should be helping him, but it isn't.

Edited September 18, 2015 by Angel Oracle

[Second Base]

Trout seems to have been heating up the last few games. It's amazing to have a player of this caliber, that he can get hot and change everything.

[Troll Daddy]

So if the team makes the playoffs ... will you guys give up some Scioscia love?

[IEAngelsfan]

So if the team makes the playoffs ... will you guys give up some Scioscia love?

I wasn't calling for his head to begin with......so........no.

[Homebrewer]

I might give Scioscia a little more love if his teams ever did more than blow chunks once they got into the playoffs.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

We have finally found the formula: We get rained out, Texas loses and Houston loses. Slowly but surely, half a game at a time.

[Angel Oracle]

Only 2.0 GB

[QuinlansMinion]

So if the team makes the playoffs ... will you guys give up some Scioscia love?

If they lose in the first round again, no.  

[wpghalo]

We could be .5* games out by tonight if we win both and Houston looses.

Let's worry about our games and if Houston wins that's ok too. We got a game in hand on em

[wpghalo]

CJ, Trout, Puljos. Calhoun, sometimes eybar our whole offense.

[Angel Oracle]

Perez is hitting .360 this month.

[LBHalos17]

With Houston pulling their folding act, anything's possible...

Great extra-inning win in the first game, Boys!  Keep on fighting!

 

It's gonna be a fun run...

[wpghalo]

4 Zip!!

LTFBU!!!!! Haha