Gameday 5/30 Angels @ Tigers Ohtani Returns

[BackUpTheTruck]

Hittable pitch, Justin

[Taylor]

Come on, Mang.

[Jason]

Good job Pujols!

[Angelsfan1984]

Mang!

[Taylor]

Albert comes through!

[GrittyVeterans]

Nice Albert!

[BackUpTheTruck]

Pujols heating up. Great!

[NachoPop]

Kinsler's on the verge of breaking .200!

[Sherlock31]

The mang!

[eligrba4ever]

Woo Hoo!!! Albert drives in Trout and ties it up!!

[Waybackman]

We should have about 3 runs, but at least we scored 1.

[Angelsfan1984]

Wasn't sure pujols was going to be seen at 2nd before the tigers got in the dugout

[Sherlock31]

Just now, Waybackman said:

We should have about 3 runs, but at least we scored 1.

On the bright side..1 is better than nothing..

[Angelsfan1984]

1 minute ago, Sherlock31 said:

On the bright side..1 is better than nothing..

Unless you're talking about herpes

[Ohtani&Trout]

This is the third time in the last 4 PAs that Ohtani threw pitches right down the middle to the Tigers on 0-2 counts.

[Ohtani&Trout]

Just shrug him off, Ohtani. Shrug him off. 

[Stradling]

5 minutes ago, Angelsfan1984 said:

For sure, he just looks much better at the plate. Not lazy swings looking for contact 

I think he might just be comfortable in Detroit, hopefully it spills over into a nice long run of hitting.  No idea, but it is much better than what we have been seeing.  Doesn’t look like he is dipping nearly as much as he had been.

[eligrba4ever]

Splitter didn't split.

[rafibomb]

 

pls no bullpen game

[Ohtani&Trout]

Look at that shit. 1-2 pitch in the middle of the plate. SHRUG HIM OFF, PLEASE.

[Stradling]

Just now, Ohtani&Trout said:

Look at that shit. 1-2 pitch in the middle of the plate. SHRUG HIM OFF, PLEASE.

What are you even talking about.  The last 1-2 pitch was a splitter no where near the middle of the plate.  The one before that was a splitter that didn’t split.  Stop blaming the catcher, when the pitcher misses his spot.  

[Stradling]

And that 1-2 pitch was on the inside corner.

[BackUpTheTruck]

Calhoun to the rescue

[Ohtani&Trout]

Ohtani is not a pitch-to-contact kind of guy. He needs to use his stuff to generate strikeouts, not contact. 

[Stradling]

1 minute ago, Ohtani&Trout said:

No, this is on Maldonado. Ohtani is throwing hittable strikes on 0-2 and 1-2 counts. Ohtani needs to shrug him off before his ERA skyrockets. He needs to pitch for the strikeout and not to contact.

And if his splitter, which is his strike out pitch, doesn’t split, that isn’t on Maldonado.