Gameday Thread: Angels @ Red Sox (4/17/23 8am): Ohtani on the mound, no Trout or Rendon

[TroutField]

1 hour ago, Duren, Duren said:

.500 now. But still so many questions marks. A good series in New York may spark some momentum. Not sure about the Neto addition. Not the time for this experiment. 

Mmmm we didn’t have a shortstop and he took Fletcher’s roster spot. 
 

how could you find any negative in that…?

[Swordsman78]

5 hours ago, IheartLA said:

Wasn’t even Ohtani’s turn, we could have had him open against NYY

do we put this on Nevin, he knew it was raining…

Lol.  Skip can't catch a break with you guys.  Sheesh.

[Swordsman78]

4 hours ago, Blarg said:

I think this is on Nevin pulling a pitcher that is having success to insert one that has a history of giving up inherited runners. Davidson's pitch count seemed within reason to extending him another couple batters to end the inning himself. 

LTBU!

 

[Angels 1961]

4 minutes ago, Swordsman78 said:

LTBU!

BTW - KJP just said the Russians invading Ukraine "is on Nevin".

You cannot putin that on Phil

[Barf]

Good to get back to .500 and hopefully some momentum built for what will be a tough series in New York. Do wish though this team made it a bit easier when we get ahead and not have us fans holding our chests throughout haha.

[Revad]

12 minutes ago, Barf said:

Good to get back to .500 and hopefully some momentum built for what will be a tough series in New York.

It’s going to be entertaining, I hope we escape with a win.

[Jeff Fletcher]

4 hours ago, Stradling said:

@Jeff Fletcher

It used to be that a game that was tied when it couldn’t be completed after five innings would go down as a tie and essentially they had to replay the whole thing. Now those games are suspended. 

[Stradling]

24 minutes ago, Jeff Fletcher said:

It used to be that a game that was tied when it couldn’t be completed after five innings would go down as a tie and essentially they had to replay the whole thing. Now those games are suspended. 

So does that include games that aren’t tied?  Or do they start those over?

[Jeff Fletcher]

11 minutes ago, Stradling said:

So does that include games that aren’t tied?  Or do they start those over?

No. If five innings are completed and someone is winning, the game is official. I think maybe that happened once already this year. 
 

In the postseason, however, every game goes nine, so they are all suspended. That’s a rule they changed after the 2008 near debacle in the WS. 

[Stradling]

8 minutes ago, Jeff Fletcher said:

No. If five innings are completed and someone is winning, the game is official. I think maybe that happened once already this year. 
 

In the postseason, however, every game goes nine, so they are all suspended. That’s a rule they changed after the 2008 near debacle in the WS. 

Sorry. I think I’m explaining this poorly so I’ll use todays game as an example. The Angels had a 5-1 lead before the rain delay, in the 3rd inning. If they postponed the game after the 5-1 lead but before the 5th inning would they resume the game at 5-1 or start over? 

[Blarg]

I watched the entire game in flight this morning so you guys couldn't screw this one up. You're welcome. 

[Jeff Fletcher]

16 minutes ago, Stradling said:

Sorry. I think I’m explaining this poorly so I’ll use todays game as an example. The Angels had a 5-1 lead before the rain delay, in the 3rd inning. If they postponed the game after the 5-1 lead but before the 5th inning would they resume the game at 5-1 or start over? 

They would start over. 
 

(in 2020 only they changed it to make all games suspended, even before 5 innings. That was just for 2020.)

[Stradling]

Just now, Jeff Fletcher said:

They would start over. 
 

(in 2020 only they changed it to make all games suspended, even before 5 innings. That was just for 2020.)

Thank you. 

[Jeff Fletcher]

5 minutes ago, Stradling said:

Thank you. 

I’ll add that the scenario you described basically never happens because nowadays they won’t start a game unless they are pretty sure they have enough of a window to play at least five innings.