Gameday Thread (5/3/23): Angels @ Cardinals - Ohtani on the mound

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[Angels 1961]

Not many teams have a pitcher leading team in SB

[Angels 1961]

Who will have higher average, HR and RBI this year Trout or Ohtani?

[daygloman]

Go Halos!

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

Astros lost, Texas is losing 11-7 after 7.

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

57 minutes ago, Angels 1961 said:

Who will have higher average, HR and RBI this year Trout or Ohtani?

Trout

[Taylor]

32 minutes ago, Ace-Of-Diamonds said:

Astros lost, Texas is losing 11-7 after 7.

Scoreboard watching on May 3?

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

11 minutes ago, Taylor said:

Scoreboard watching on May 3?

Why not, it doesn't cost anything? Any Angel win or division rival lose, will only help in September. Especially this year when retaining Ohtani probably depends on whether or not we get to the playoffs. Why rain on my parade?

 

Edited May 3, 2023 by Ace-Of-Diamonds

[gurn67]

49 minutes ago, Ace-Of-Diamonds said:

Astros lost, Texas is losing 11-7 after 7.

I'm still way more worried about the Astros than I am the Rangers. I'm sure I'm not alone. Unless both of those teams prove me otherwise. 

[Taylor]

11 minutes ago, Ace-Of-Diamonds said:

Why not, it doesn't cost anything? Any Angel win or division rival lose, will only help in September. Especially this year when retaining Ohtani probably depends on whether or not we get to the playoffs. Why rain on my parade?

 

Touché.

[Chuck]

 

[Chuck]

 

[Chuck]

 

[Taylor]

9 minutes ago, Chuckster70 said:

 

Whoever the next two-way star is will be compared to Shohei instead of Babe Ruth. Crazy to think about.

[Angelsjunky]

Such a crazy stat: In 34 IP this year, Ohtani has given up 11 hits. That's less than 1 hit per 3 innings!

The modern MLB record for Hits/9IP in a non-shortened season is Nolan Ryan in 1972, when he gave up 5.3 hits per 9 IP. Trevor Bauer gave up 5.1 hits per 9 IP in 2020, but that was in 73 IP.

[eligrba4ever]

GO ANGELS!!!!

Going for 3 over .500. Don't get dizzy from the altitude/

[ten ocho recon scout]

1 hour ago, Angelsjunky said:

Such a crazy stat: In 34 IP this year, Ohtani has given up 11 hits. That's less than 1 hit per 3 innings!

The modern MLB record for Hits/9IP in a non-shortened season is Nolan Ryan in 1972, when he gave up 5.3 hits per 9 IP. Trevor Bauer gave up 5.1 hits per 9 IP in 2020, but that was in 73 IP.

What's crazy as that even when he got lit in that last start, it was literally an anomaly. He went from lights out, to zero control in one inning. Hit more guys in one inning than he did all last season.

 

Then the next inning was lights out again.

[Taylor]

1 hour ago, Angelsjunky said:

Such a crazy stat: In 34 IP this year, Ohtani has given up 11 hits. That's less than 1 hit per 3 innings!

The modern MLB record for Hits/9IP in a non-shortened season is Nolan Ryan in 1972, when he gave up 5.3 hits per 9 IP. Trevor Bauer gave up 5.1 hits per 9 IP in 2020, but that was in 73 IP.

[stormngt]

2 hours ago, Taylor said:

Scoreboard watching on May 3?

Thank you.  I personally find it ridiculous. 

[stormngt]

2 hours ago, Ace-Of-Diamonds said:

Why not, it doesn't cost anything? Any Angel win or division rival lose, will only help in September. Especially this year when retaining Ohtani probably depends on whether or not we get to the playoffs. Why rain on my parade?

 

Scoreboard watching with over a hundred games left to go is stupid, regardless the importance of making the playoffs this year.  

Right now our destiny is in our hands.  What our opponents do is irrelevant until our destiny is dependent on what others do.

[Lou]

1 minute ago, stormngt said:

Scoreboard watching with over a hundred games left to go is stupid, regardless the importance of making the playoffs this year.  

Right now our destiny is in our hands.  What our opponents do is irrelevant until our destiny is dependent on what others do.

So you don't care if our rivals in the west win every game right now? 

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

10 minutes ago, stormngt said:

Scoreboard watching with over a hundred games left to go is stupid, regardless the importance of making the playoffs this year.  

Right now our destiny is in our hands.  What our opponents do is irrelevant until our destiny is dependent on what others do.

You shouldn't worry your little self about it, because you can't do anything but bitch about it. l hope you don't lose sleep over it....

Edited May 3, 2023 by Ace-Of-Diamonds

[Justin]

8 minutes ago, stormngt said:

Scoreboard watching with over a hundred games left to go is stupid, regardless the importance of making the playoffs this year.  

We're grown men discussing baseball on a message board. I know a lot of people who would call that stupid, too. 

If scoreboard-watching makes you happy, by all means, do it. 

[Revad]

We play Texas and Houston next week which makes it relevant.  Plus I like it when they lose.

[eligrba4ever]

Uh oh. Shohei hung one and Gorman hung it out to dry in the bleachers.