Gameday Thread: Angels @ Reds 8/5/2019 (Patrick Sandoval debut, Walsh - Rengifo - Fletcher - Thaiss infield)

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[Vlad27Trout27]

I know that our pitching staff is bad, but this lineup...... I'm loving it! let see the youngs play, but not digging Kole at the 3.

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[cysomeawfulpitcher]

Remember when we beat teams we were supposed to beat?  I miss those days.

[eligrba4ever]

GO ANGELS!!!

Go Taylor Cole and Patrick Sandoval!! Open cleanly and don't drop the ball at the hand-off!!

Get your playoff chances back over 1 percent, Angels!!!

[Angel Oracle]

Use the remaining 8 weeks to figure out which players/prospects stay beyond 2019, and which ones get dealt beyond it. 

 

[UndertheHalo]

Hopefully the newbs give us something to dream on going into next season. 

[tdawg87]

8 minutes ago, UndertheHalo said:

Hopefully the newbs give us something to dream on going into next season. 

No they've been pretty awful so far, especially in the Eppler threads.

Oh. Ohhh you mean the TEAM newbs. Yeah. Hope they do well.

[aznhockeyguy]

I hope Sandoval pitches well tonight. 

[eligrba4ever]

Most vivid memory of Angels baseball at Riverfront Stadium: The night the fake riverboat smokestack burned.

[Justin]

17 minutes ago, eligrba4ever said:

Most vivid memory of Angels baseball at Riverfront Stadium: The night the fake riverboat smokestack burned.

I remember doing a pub crawl with a friend who is a diehard Reds fan on Opening Day 2013, and the game went 13 innings. I just looked up the box score. Do you know who got the win? Mark Lowe. I do not remember him at all. 

[Docwaukee]

I would trade everyone in our farm sans Adell for Luis Castillo.  They could pick any 5 players.  Even from Fletcher or Rengifo.  The only guys on the mlb team I wouldn't give up are Trout, Ohtani and Canning.  

[krAbs]

Kinda just realized - walsh plays interestingly in a national league game. There's no DH that you give up if you have him pitch an inning in the middle of a game. So, you could have someone who can play 1B pinch hit for a pitcher, then leave him in  for an inning while Walsh pitches, and leave in the 1B pinch hitter for the next half inning in case your hitters get back around to that spot. Then, you bring out your "pinch hitting" 1b for another relief the next inning, and slide Walsh back to 1B. You may have some interesting logistics with warm up pitching, though...

[DMVol]

Cole really sucks...but then, so does most of our staff.....

[jsnpritchett]

38 minutes ago, aznhockeyguy said:

I hope Sandoval pitches well tonight. 

On the bright side, he can't be much worse than Taylor Cole is tonight, right? 

[Vlad27Trout27]

Ooh God.... Cole is Broken

 

[AngelsLakersFan]

It would appear that Taylor Cole is awful.

[Lou]

Look at that, the game has started . . . 

 

 

 

 

[m0nkey]

Well there's even less pressure on Sandoval now for his debut

[krAbs]

wtf? All of a sudden, Cole has forgotten how to open a game. After 4 clean openings, he now has 2 in a row of giving up 4+ runs (and counting, on this one).

[Troll Daddy]

 

[Broad Street]

Can we get rid of this opener bullshit?

[robblin17]

Sandoval won't have any pressure! Thanks, Cole.

[AngelsLakersFan]

HA!!

[yk9001]

Well, the Angels got their loss for tonight. Who is going to be injured or maimed?