The Entire Franchise Lost Today

[Ohtaniland]

1 hour ago, Lou said:

if he really wanted to win, he can start by hitting over .083 in the playoffs 

(that is, unless Scioscia and Arte instructed him to suck)

Yes I'm sure Trout (who hates to lose by the way) is impressed with his 12 lifetime at bats in the postseason while competing in 5.5 seasons of ML baseball. 

[Lou]

which players enjoy losing? 

[Jobu]

Mopey Betts

[Jobu]

Mark Grumpo

[Jobu]

Mike Morose

[Stradling]

12 minutes ago, Lou said:

which players enjoy losing? 

Waybackman, Claude, JoJo.  

[tdawg87]

Remember when Ralston Schmidt's mom died of AIDS and he went out and pitched the very next night and his line was:

9 IP, -4 H, 0.0144 R, 32 K's

That guy had twtw. It's too bad he died in Iraq. We could use his presence right now. 

[Pujols4MVP]

44 minutes ago, Lou said:

which players enjoy losing? 

Street. He'd rather close for a losing team than pitch 7th innings for a playoff team.

[Homebrewer]

An observation while watching the ML club on this day..

Scioscia had the infield shifted for Conger so radically that Escobar was the only infielder on the left side of the diamond, playing about SS...so what does Trop do? He pitches him on the OUTSIDE corner. It went foul, but only by a slim margin.

"Oh..I'm supposed to pitch him inside and get him to pull it? I get it now, skip...duh"

I thought, no wonder this team, this organization, is flopping around like stranded carp. If that's the best execution of a simple concept that they can muster, it's amazing they win at all.

Not fun baseball to watch.   

[Stradling]

I didn't see it, was the catcher set up outside or did he miss location?  Also as we've seen a bunch of times hitters roll over pitches on the outside part of the plate.  

[Homebrewer]

28 minutes ago, Stradling said:

I didn't see it, was the catcher set up outside or did he miss location?  Also as we've seen a bunch of times hitters roll over pitches on the outside part of the plate.  

Didn't see how the catcher was set up, but when the shift is on for dead pull, (3 infielders on one side) you don't throw outside unless you are unclear on the concept. Trop might have just let one slip, but still...it was almost comical.

[Stradling]

One of e reasons I don't like the extreme shift everyone does these days is I feel it takes away half of home plate.  

[John Stellman]

15 hours ago, Dochalo said:

It doesn't happen often

MLB 4-2

AAA 17-6

AA 12-2

A+ 5-2

A 2-1

Rookie Orem 7-6

Rookie AZL 7-5

DSL 27-1

 

The dominican team almost pulled it out in a nail biter.  

Overall, 81-25.  Tough day.  

Who says noobody's perfect?

[Lou]

3 hours ago, Homebrewer said:

Didn't see how the catcher was set up, but when the shift is on for dead pull, (3 infielders on one side) you don't throw outside unless you are unclear on the concept. Trop might have just let one slip, but still...it was almost comical.

catcher wasn't set up outside. the pitch doesn't always go where it's intended. 

that's why batters walk. 

[ScottT]

I've always wondered what this board would be like when the Angels truly sucked.  Not 78-84 with a -13 run differential, but 100 loss,uber mega suckitude. 

It's just as bad as the product on the field.