Gameday Thread: Angels vs. Astros (8/24/2020)

[kevinb]

Just now, bloodbrother said:

marvelous tank job by the blowpen

Blowpen? The starter went 2 innings and gave up 5 runs. The relief pitching is at least doing better than the starter  

[eligrba4ever]

Chipped away and got to a 1-run game and then suddenly it wasn't a 1-run game anymore. Oh well.

[Angel]

This team is fascinating

[Angel Oracle]

I knew the pitching staff wouldn’t let down the Halos in the Rocker Sweepstakes.

[Jason]

Lol at the bullpen

[Jason]

3 minutes ago, Kevinb said:

Blowpen? The starter went 2 innings and gave up 5 runs. The relief pitching is at least doing better than the starter  

They all suck 

[Jay]

Long way to go in this game, amirite?

 

[eligrba4ever]

1 hour ago, Angel Oracle said:

FIFY

Not exactly certain about this, but I recall during the 2019 full-season debacle, the Angels came within about six Trevor Cahill mop-up innings of being the first team since some ancient Phillies team from 100-or-so years ago to not have one pitcher over 100 innings. Cahill was the one we had because we had no arms left to mop up.

[Angel Oracle]

Ladies and gentlemen:

We are witnessing the reincarnation of the 1972 Phillies.

One strong pitcher, and then blech

[Angel]

That's what a real pitcher looks like, Valdez made Trout and Ohtani look like scrubs

[eligrba4ever]

Hansel has a chance to lower his 9.90 ERA. But a leadoff double makes that pretty difficult.

[eligrba4ever]

2 minutes ago, Angel Oracle said:

Ladies and gentlemen:

We are witnessing the reincarnation of the 1972 Phillies.

One strong pitcher, and then blech

Bundy ain't no Carlton.

[Vlad27Trout27]

Damn this Garbage had been going on for 3 hours none...I though Manfred was trying to speed up the game.

[bloodbrother]

You know your pitching is bad when Martin Maldonado has 2 hits and 2 walks against you

[Angel Oracle]

6 minutes ago, eligrba4ever said:

Bundy ain't no Carlton.

True in the truest sense, but his season next to the rest is similar to Carlton and the rest in 1972.

[daygloman]

Fuck. 

The inning isn't even over yet.....

[Amazing Larry]

Meatball right down the middle.

[Jason]

When does the mercy rule go into effect?

[eligrba4ever]

They're coming to take me away ha-ha!

They're coming to take me away ho-ho!! Hee-hee!! Ha-ha!

To the funny farm -- where life is wonderful all day long.

[Angel Oracle]

10 minutes ago, Angel said:

That's what a real pitcher looks like, Valdez made Trout and Ohtani look like scrubs

One can only dream of 2022/2023.

Bauer, Rocker, Detmers, and Bundy

Of course, Bauer would have to want to take several one year deals with the Halos, and Bundy would have to re-sign here.

Of course part deux, the bullpen needs to be MLB caliber.

[kevinb]

Is Rendon our new best player? What’s going on with Trout?

[Claude]

Lol that Eppler can pull off a deadline deal that will fix this clusterfak. 

[Claude]

1 minute ago, Kevinb said:

Is Rendon our new best player? What’s going on with Trout?

The baby is keeping him up at night. 

[JustATroutFan]

2 minutes ago, Kevinb said:

Is Rendon our new best player? What’s going on with Trout?

Can’t judge Trout as a hitter in this fake season. No real fans and having to worry about the stupid virus if he is not playing. 

[eligrba4ever]

3 minutes ago, Kevinb said:

Is Rendon our new best player? What’s going on with Trout?

Mike is distracted with worry for Ohtani's psyche, which has been occasionally deconstructed here this season.