Gameday Thread: Angels vs. Twins (4-16-2021)

[Second Base]

Rengifo with another good swing. 

[Amazing Larry]

Is this the inning Heaney shits the bed?

[Lou]

Coming into tonight's game, Albert's OPS was 136 points higher than Fletcher's, who has an OPS under .500

[failos]

Wtf?

[bloodbrother]

3 minutes ago, Lou said:

Coming into tonight's game, Albert's OPS was 136 points higher than Fletcher's, who has an OPS under .500

That 1 HR gotta account for the majority of that I'd imagine. Fletcher's been fuckin terrible though

[Lou]

3 minutes ago, Lhalo said:

Is this the inning Heaney shits the bed?

[CaliAngel]

Meeting at the mound: "Just make sure you don't let them hit it to Upton so he doesn't biff it like he usually does..."

[Jason]

Upton is not very good

[fan_since79]

4 minutes ago, Second Base said:

Father time is brutal to even the greatest athletes. 

Babe Ruth promptly retired after six weeks of the 1935 season with almost three years remaining on his contract with the Boston Braves. He knew he was finished and simply bowed out.

[AngelsLakersFan]

Terrible call by the home-late umpire there

[Jason]

Cant afford to give up any runs with this offense right now 

[PattyD22]

This game just has the feel of another Angel starter not getting a decision.  

[Second Base]

2 minutes ago, fan_since79 said:

Babe Ruth promptly retired after six weeks of the 1935 season with almost three years remaining on his contract with the Boston Braves. He knew he was finished and simply bowed out.

I dunno, it doesn't seem like a perfect comp. I mean if Ruth was making 25 million a year, maybe he would've stuck around. And while I believe Albert Pujols is a better baseball player than Ruth was (I doubt he'd have much success in today's game), by comparison to his peers, Pujols, as good as he was, is no Babe Ruth.

[Amazing Larry]

Good move by Maddon. 

[Stradling]

Why the fuck is he pulling Heaney?  79 pitches. 

[CaliAngel]

1 minute ago, AngelsLakersFan said:

Terrible call by the home-late umpire there

Heaney doing it like a professional and K-ing the guy anyway. 

Absolutely NO REASON Maddon should be pulling him right now. 

Classic over-managing, let Heaney finish his goddamn inning.

[Jason]

Just now, Stradling said:

Why the fuck is he pulling Heaney?  79 pitches. 

I’m ok with it because Heaney has a tendency to give up big innings

[fan_since79]

Maddon is overthinking this.

We'll see...

[Stradling]

Jesus that pitch had movement 

[Jason]

Two good outings in a row from Heaney. That’s encouraging 

[Amazing Larry]

4 minutes ago, Lhalo said:

Good move by Maddon. 

Dumbass

[bloodbrother]

Gotta love the hanging breaking ball on an 0-2 count

[daygloman]

That was too bad!

[fan_since79]

No win for Heaney tonight.

Arghhh!!!

[HeavenlyHalos]

Thanks Maddon!