Gameday Thread: Apr 20th Angels vs Astros

[Troll Daddy]

[totdprods]

Win today and it's a split. Just need to keep treading water for another couple weeks and the sched will ease up a bit. 

[Angel Oracle]

Five straight good or solid starts for the rotation, keep it going Shoe!   The OF defense won't break down like it did yesterday, now that everyone is back in their familiar surroundings in the OF.

[Troll Daddy]

No Marte in LF

[Broad Street]

I'll happy with a win and a good drug arrest today. Happy 4/20.

[Angels#1Fan]

C'mon Shoe keep the train a coming.

Lets Go Halos!

[Angel35Fan]

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[JustATroutFan]

Pujols deserves to be moved down the lineup but he won't.

[Stradling]

I agree, it's time for Marte and Cron to perform to force Mike's hand.  

[Ohtaniland]

1 hour ago, Troll Daddy said:

No Marte in LF

No Maybin in RF 

[krAbs]

Right, I would be thrilled with a split on this series. The way I see it, this team does very well as long as all of the following are true: players preform how they are supposed to defensively (very likely); Trout continues to be all around a god who has graced baseball with his presence (very likely); bullpen continues to preform in the neighborhood of what its been doing (likely); Trout, Pujols, Cron, and Marte combine to form 3 players with power potential per game (somewhat likely); overall, injuries are kept to a manageable amount (lets say...50/50 here); the back two of the rotation don't fall off a cliff (somewhat likely); and richards, shoe, and skaggs live up to their potential (at BEST 50/50). Every team has the injury issue (except maybe the cubs, who could probably have the entire team on the DL and have enough replacement players to still contend), so the big thing I'm worried about is the top of our rotation. That falls apart, the rest of this doesn't matter much, and we spend the season trying to stay at .500. So, with Richards out, the top of that rotation is looking very shaky. But, if he comes back and is back to his old self (read: angels medical staff isn't just lying to us, and this is actually just a cramp that he will work though), then we are in pretty good shape. If we can keep our heads above water while we have a hole in our "essential formula", then we are in a good place when the formula comes together. If the formula never comes together, it doesn't really matter what we do now, because we're gonna lose no matter what.

 

All that is to say, lets kick ass today, try to hold an even record through tough teams, and give ourselves the opportunity to start mashing if everything comes together.

[Troll Daddy]

27 minutes ago, JustATroutFan said:

Pujols deserves to be moved down the lineup but he won't.

For who?

[nando714]

Angels 0-3 in getaway games so far this season

[Ohtaniland]

27 minutes ago, Stradling said:

I agree, it's time for Marte and Cron to perform to force Mike's hand.  

Strad, if Marte and Cron were both hitting .325 Sosh would still plant Pujols right behind Trout  becuzzzzzzzz "HE BRINGS A PRESENCE TO THE LINEUP"! (whatever that means)

Sosh won't budge on that issue.

[eligrba4ever]

GO HALOS!!! Go Matt Shoemaker!!! Cobble together your first W!!!

No sweat, offense. We believe in you.

[Glen]

Welp.

[Aaronkv]

There's the mandatory first inning run.

[nando714]

shoemaker giving up another homer. Shocker

[Richard]

 

Yeah, that's not a good trend.

 

Correa just missed hitting one to San Antonio.

[krAbs]

Crap, I forgot that we have Matt "I have a problem with the home run ball" Shoemaker pitching at Huston, in the day. I'll be happy if we get out of this game with no injuries.

[nando714]

Cron lol. Lost every time. Dude is trash

[JustATroutFan]

21 minutes ago, Troll Daddy said:

For who?

Anyone who is hitting better than him right now (ex: Simmons).

[JustATroutFan]

7 minutes ago, nando714 said:

Cron lol. Lost every time. Dude is trash

Not trash but streaky.

[Glen]

Those Espinosa Ks never get old.

[Glen]

Odds of this baserunner scoring: 95%.