Gameday Thread: Angels @ Tigers (8/18/21): Ohtani on the mound & leading off, Gosselin in for Walsh

[jsnpritchett]

[beatlesrule]

Going to love seeing Ohtani pitch to Cabrera. Does anyone here think he takes Ohtani deep?

[eligrba4ever]

GO ANGELS!!!

Go Ohtani Shohei!!! Carry a big stick!!

Go Ohtani Shohei!!! Throw unhittable pitches.

One win to .500 (again).

[eligrba4ever]

No winners on Tuesday. The numbers carry over to tonight's game. The numbers again are 40 and 500.

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

8 minutes ago, eligrba4ever said:

GO ANGELS!!!

Go Ohtani Shohei!!! Carry a big stick!!

Go Ohtani Shohei!!! Throw unhittable pitches.

One win to .500 (again).

Quintana will probably drop us below .500 even if we win today. Cobb, CRod, Canning, and Sandoval all on IL we're back to the scrubs they replaced.

Edited August 18, 2021 by Ace-Of-Diamonds

[Angel Oracle]

Upton is 11-71 since returning from a month of absence.

Regarding his ability to get hot?

[jsnpritchett]

1 minute ago, Angel Oracle said:

Upton is 11-71 since returning from a month of absence.

Regarding his ability to get hot?

Stassi is 4 for his last 31 with only 1 extra base hit and 17 K.  Fletcher is hitting .242/.293/.282 over his last 30 games since his hitting streak ended.  Starting pitching has been the thing keeping the Angels hovering around .500.

[Angel Oracle]

If Trout, Rendon, and Upton would stop getting injured, maybe then they would actually have a solid team offense for a season?

[Angel Oracle]

9 minutes ago, jsnpritchett said:

Stassi is 4 for his last 31 with only 1 extra base hit and 17 K.  Fletcher is hitting .242/.293/.282 over his last 30 games since his hitting streak ended.  Starting pitching has been the thing keeping the Angels hovering around .500.

And a re-emerging pen over the past two weeks

[daygloman]

Go Halos!

[beatlesrule]

Upton!!

[eligrba4ever]

UPTOWN!!!

[jsnpritchett]

36 minutes ago, Angel Oracle said:

Upton is 11-71 since returning from a month of absence.

Regarding his ability to get hot?

12 for 72.

[tdawg87]

37 minutes ago, Angel Oracle said:

Upton is 11-71 since returning from a month of absence.

Regarding his ability to get hot?

Lol

[beatlesrule]

Dumb baserunning gets Shohei out of the inning.

[eligrba4ever]

ADELL FIRES THAT CANNON!!!

[jsnpritchett]

Skubal has settled down since he gave up that HR to Upton.  He looks good.  Hope Ohtani can keeping holding down the Tigers.

[jsnpritchett]

[beatlesrule]

2 minutes ago, jsnpritchett said:

I still need to watch that movie.

[eligrba4ever]

2 minutes ago, jsnpritchett said:

Off and on. Sorta.

[jsnpritchett]

Mayfield looks like he twisted his ankle a bit on that play at first.

[fan_since79]

LOL

Phone to the clubhouse is busted.

[beatlesrule]

Come on Angels, get Ohtani some more runs. 2-1 ballgame now after the solo hr.

[fan_since79]

Another game where we score two quick runs and then shut down?

[jsnpritchett]

1 minute ago, fan_since79 said:

Another game where we score two quick runs and then shut down?

Seems that way--though yesterday was an exception.  Maybe another 6-run outburst in a single inning is on the way.