Toughest non playoff games you remember watching

[Slegnaac]

2 hours ago, Φαήλος said:

That Garrett Richards injury at Camden Yards. Horrible stuff.

This

[Make Angels Great Again]

If we're talking games seen live, i'm going with the game against the Yankees in 2018 where GRich gave up like 10 runs within the first 2 innings. I think that was the game where Didi Gregorious took a curtain call at Angel Stadium.

 

Never had the game ruined quite so quickly. Being surrounded by Yankee homo assholes (with the most obnoxious directly behind me) during that game was so depressing.

[eligrba]

Every game at the Big A when the Angels lost to either the Red Sox or the Yankees.

[Justin]

3 hours ago, Φαήλος said:

That Garrett Richards injury at Camden Yards. Horrible stuff.

Fenway. I hate that place. 

[Tank]

3 minutes ago, SoPas Angel said:

Fenway. I hate that place. 

running to first to cover the bag and tore up his knee. the beginning of his demise with the angels.

[tdawg87]

1 minute ago, SoPas Angel said:

Fenway. I hate that place. 

Yeah it was Fenway. Of course it was Fenway. That place is Hell for the Angels. 

Took me about 9 years to witness a win there. And my family all got called bandwagon fans by a drunk chowd c*nt on the subway afterwards.

[UndertheHalo]

28 minutes ago, Make Angels Great Again said:

If we're talking games seen live, i'm going with the game against the Yankees in 2018 where GRich gave up like 10 runs within the first 2 innings. I think that was the game where Didi Gregorious took a curtain call at Angel Stadium.

 

Never had the game ruined quite so quickly. Being surrounded by Yankee homo assholes (with the most obnoxious directly behind me) during that game was so depressing.

I was also at this game.  Extremely fucked vibes. 

[UndertheHalo]

1 minute ago, tdawg87 said:

Yeah it was Fenway. Of course it was Fenway. That place is Hell for the Angels. 

Took me about 9 years to witness a win there. And my family all got called bandwagon fans by a drunk chowd c*nt on the subway afterwards.

Lmao.  Imagine being IN BOSTON and calling others bandwagon fans.  Psychotic.  

[failos]

8 minutes ago, SoPas Angel said:

Fenway. I hate that place. 

Oh yeah that’s right. For some reason I thought they were playing the Orioles

[Justin]

3 minutes ago, Φαήλος said:

Oh yeah that’s right. For some reason I thought they were playing the Orioles

It's understandable - there are lots of "oh shit" moments with Richards to keep track of. You also had him coming out of the game at Texas grabbing his forearm and then we were told it was "dehydration." And then two years later he came out of the game at home against the Mariners in the 3rd inning, looking like he was going to cry. (By that point we all knew what it meant.)

[tdawg87]

16 minutes ago, UndertheHalo said:

Lmao.  Imagine being IN BOSTON and calling others bandwagon fans.  Psychotic.  

Well it was 2003 so technically it was before their first championship in 86 years. 

But regardless, Boston still had a ton of fair weather fans and bandwagonners at that point. People wanted to follow the "underdog" who still won a ton but wasn't as successful as the Yankees.

Also, Red Sox fans are c*nts.

[southpaw]

2 hours ago, nate said:

First game I took my daughter to.

Great seats, awful game.  Oakland beat the Angels 6-0, Bartolo Colon (pitching for Oakland) threw 39 strikes in a row at one point.  39 in a row, let that sink in.

I remember that game. All fastballs too. 

[Taylor]

6 hours ago, SoPas Angel said:

August 1, 2012: blowing a six-run lead at Texas while battling them for the Division lead.

Kendrys thrown out at home with a one-run lead in the 9th while Bourjos sat on the bench (when everyone on this board was screaming for him to pinch run). Kinsler hits a home run in the bottom of the 9th to send the game to extras. 

Albert and Ianneta both hit homers in the 10th to take a three-run lead. Texas scores four in the bottom of the 10th to walk off. 

More than 7 years later and I still feel sick remembering that game. 

I couldn't recall this game until you got to the part about the back-to-back homers in the 10th. Now I remember. 

[UndertheHalo]

3 hours ago, nate said:

First game I took my daughter to.

Great seats, awful game.  Oakland beat the Angels 6-0, Bartolo Colon (pitching for Oakland) threw 39 strikes in a row at one point.  39 in a row, let that sink in.

sounds like exactly the right game to calibrate her Angels fandom tbh. 

Edited January 8, 2020 by UndertheHalo

[tdawg87]

Angels fandom is born through suffering.

[nate]

2 hours ago, southpaw said:

I remember that game. All fastballs too. 

The Angels' limp wristed offense barely even lifted a bat against them.

[Angel Oracle]

Worst regular season game in person?

Has to be the 2010 AW fanfest night game vs KC, where Bruce Chen actually no-hit the Halos for 6 innings, and the Halos scored just 1 run and lost, one of many AW night losses for the Halos.  

The ONLY AW fanfest night that I attended where the Halos won was in 2013, thanks to amazingly Hamilton's walkoff HR in extra innings.,  

[Lou]

That game when Cam came in to pitch. 

[tdawg87]

1 minute ago, Lou said:

That game when Cam came in to pitch. 

Bedrosian had a 141 ERA+ in 2019 and was one of our best relievers. 

You just hate white guys who look like they joined Al-Qaeda. 

[Lou]

Huh?

I have nothing against Al-Qaeda. 

[tdawg87]

5 minutes ago, Lou said:

Huh?

I have nothing against Al-Qaeda. 

Typical con.

[Lou]

7 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

Typical con.

Never been to prison.

 

racist

[tdawg87]

Just now, Lou said:

Never been to prison.

 

racist

That surprises me because you're a....well, you know....78 and 7/8 years old. It would seem in your long life that you'd have been to prison at least once.

[fan_since79]

The game in 1989 where Kirk McCaskill had a no-hitter going into the 9th inning against Toronto. Nelson Liriano led off the inning with a ringing double and there it went.

The closest I've ever come to seeing a no-hitter in person. 

[Tank]

6 hours ago, tdawg87 said:

Angels fandom is born through suffering.

it's comparable to that plant that only grows after a fire.