Do you all feel its SWEEP or bust ?

[Lou]

Damn sounds delicious.

It is. Especially with a cold Asahi

[Jason]

A sweep doesn't put the Halos above them (I know, loss column). This has been over for a while

[Tank]

A sweep would be awesome, but realistically, the Angels need to at least take 2 outta 3.

[19HALO71]

Nope!!

 

Plenty of games left, but a series win would be huge!!

 

 

Go Halos!!

[fan_since79]

9 wins and 4 losses gets us to 85-77. That might be enough for the second wild card.

 

A couple of sweeps (Houston and one of Seattle/Oakland) would be great.

 

These next three games are probably the most important of this finishing stretch.

[TeemuTrout]

No, but if they don't sweep they'll likely have to take at least 5 of 6 from Oakland/Seattle. I'm expecting a split with Texas. 

[Vegas Halo Fan]

Or do you think if we grab two outta 3 wins... Were still in it.

 

IMO it's sweep or nothing. Winning two of three only gains us one game, and we're three games closer to the end of the season. The Angels only have ten games left after the Houston series - three at home against Seattle, three at home against Oakland and four on the road at Texas. Six of the remaining ten games are against teams out of contention and who have nothing to lose. The Texas series won't mean anything to the Rangers by that point unless they totally collapse in the last two weeks of the season.

[Angel Oracle]

Minnesota in the meantime has 3 at home vs Cleveland, 3 at Detroit, 4 at Cleveland, and 3 at home vs KC.

 

Although if Cleveland cleans up on Minnesota they are likely right there too, if the Halos and Astros can't break away.

Cleveland's other 6 games include 3 at KC and 3 at home vs Boston.

They also have a makeup game, against who I am not sure.

Edited September 21, 2015 by Angel Oracle

[Second Base]

0/3 - season is done.

1/3 - season is on life support and in high danger of crashing.

2/3 - season definitely can to either way.

3/3 - we're headed to the playoffs.

Yeah, that's how important I view this series.

[ukyah]

i can respect the "chip and a chair" attitude, but i've all but checked out. i don't see this team doing anything of any interest, even on the outside chance they did make the playoffs. to me, they're rudderless.

[Guest]

i can respect the "chip and a chair" attitude, but i've all but checked out. i don't see this team doing anything of any interest, even on the outside chance they did make the playoffs. to me, they're rudderless.

Basically ever since the all star break I've maintained I won't let myself get buttercupped unless the Angels sweep a series against the Astros and/or Rangers. I basically cheated and built my hopes up prematurely (by one goddamn pitch) during the 9th inning of a recent day game against the Astros. Huston Street messed me around big time that day

Edited September 22, 2015 by ScottLux

[seenoevil]

A sweep by the Astros

[Ohtaniland]

I think two out of three is a must, anything worse and we are probably done.

 

I you're going with the win 2 out of 3 plan.........winning game 1 was probably the best way to accomplish that.

[Tank]

I at least want to see some fight in them. Go big or go out swinging.

[Inside Pitch]

Looking at the pitching matchups before the series started, it was really hard to find a single game where the Angels weren't at a disadvantage.   And the SP is the supposed strength of this team...  

[Stradling]

I you're going with the win 2 out of 3 plan.........winning game 1 was probably the best way to accomplish that.

Yes, but also the most difficult, with Keuchel on the mound. Welcome back.

[Blarg]

Looking at the pitching matchups before the series started, it was really hard to find a single game where the Angels weren't at a disadvantage. And the SP is the supposed strength of this team...

Some guy yesterday saw my Angels hat and said, we're going to the playoffs, right? My answer was no, we don't have the pitching. He had this befudled look on his face as if he was still living the July dream and I just woke him up.

We have Heaney and Richards, a two man rotation. After that we have thee guys that can't get out of the fourth inning. The Angels are not stringing together series wins to sneak into the playoffs.

Edited September 22, 2015 by notti

[Guest]

Some guy yesterday saw my Angels hat and said, we're going to the playoffs, right? My answer was no, we don't have the pitching. He had this befudled look on his face as if he was still living the July dream and I just woke him up.

We have Heaney and Richards, a two man rotation. After that we have thee guys that can't get out of the fourth inning. The Angels are not stringing together series wins to sneak into the playoffs.

We don't have the hitting, either. We have lost a lot of close games that could have gone our way with a bit of Trout not striking out looking, and a bit less of Victorino and DeJesus appearing in games.

[VariousCrap]

Yes, but also the most difficult, with Keuchel on the mound. Welcome back.

 

 

And with Weaver on the mound too.  

[Inside Pitch]

We don't have the hitting, either. We have lost a lot of close games that could have gone our way with a bit of Trout not striking out looking, and a bit less of Victorino and DeJesus appearing in games.

 

It starts and ends with the pitching or lack thereof.    The KC Royals had an OPS+  of 92 last year, their pitching staff an ERA+ of 113.    The AL West leading Texas Rangers currently have an OPS+ of 97. 

 

If this team could pitch it would still have a chance, but you can only do so much when you pair a bad offense (96 OPS+)  with an even worse pitching staff (95 ERA+) -- which is exactly what we have...   The self inflicted wound that is LF has hurt the Angels but nowhere near as much as the rotation has.