Gameday Thread (6/17/23): Angels @ Kansas City

[HaloSpurs]

Man that was so painful. Can’t sleep cause I’m so annoyed 

[cals]

17 minutes ago, Angel Oracle said:

Nevin better not blame the heat for the relievers being a disgrace to MLB.

Mid 80s/40% humidity at most

Canning handled it well for SIX innings!

 

He also better not blame space aliens! Space aliens didn’t blow this game!!

 

[Angel Oracle]

I thought the Royals were the freest swinging team in MLB.

How do they suddenly stop swinging at many more pitches?

[Angel Oracle]

Oh goody, have to rely on 5.80 ERA Anderson tomorrow to win the series.

[Mark68]

40 minutes ago, Swordsman78 said:

Filing this one under "blind squirrel finds nut".

I file it under "blind squirrel gets handed an entire tree full of nuts".

[Don]

About as bad as you can get. Was there a reason Estevez wasn’t out there for the ninth?

[Chuck]

3 hours ago, Angel Oracle said:

The BBs and the lack of Ks lately (just 3 in past 26 PAs) are admittedly a start on the road back.

Just frustrating to see the lack of hits

and the exit velo, combined with coming around on at the time a clutch go-ahead single off a 101 MPH fastball off Chapman. 

[Mark68]

3 minutes ago, Don said:

About as bad as you can get. Was there a reason Estevez wasn’t out there for the ninth?

"Unavailable"

 

Whatever that means.

[T.G.]

Bad teams beat good teams sometimes. That's baseball.

[Stradling]

17 minutes ago, cals said:

He also better not blame space aliens! Space aliens didn’t blow this game!!

 

I love you. 

[Stradling]

11 minutes ago, Angel Oracle said:

Oh goody, have to rely on 5.80 ERA Anderson tomorrow to win the series.

Or the Angels win. 

[VladdyforHOF]

2 minutes ago, T.G. said:

Bad teams beat good teams sometimes. That's baseball.

It's also just very hard to explain/understand sometimes. Like in this case losing this game without even using your closer who is one of the best right now. I don't see the sense of urgency with these decisions sometimes. Why be greedy enough to try to end it with Devenski there?

[HeavenlyHalos]

I'm still in disbelief that happened.

[Stradling]

4 minutes ago, T.G. said:

Bad teams beat good teams sometimes. That's baseball.

Yep. To be so focused on one loss after how this team has played the last two weeks.  It’s just ridiculous. If they lose tomorrow then come back to todays loss. 

[VladdyforHOF]

3 minutes ago, HeavenlyHalos said:

I'm still in disbelief that happened.

The pure nuts and GREED from Nevin to try to get 5 outs from Devenski. I hope it hit him real hard right back in the nuts.

[T.G.]

5 minutes ago, VladdyforHOF said:

It's also just very hard to explain/understand sometimes. Like in this case losing this game without even using your closer who is one of the best right now. I don't see the sense of urgency with these decisions sometimes. Why be greedy enough to try to end it with Devenski there?

The fact that we can't explain it sometimes is what makes baseball beautiful. 

[DMVol]

11 minutes ago, T.G. said:

Bad teams beat good teams sometimes. That's baseball.

True….but that most often happens when the bad team has a good pitcher, which equalizes everything….Mike Mayers is not a good pitcher….he gave up 6 runs in 5 innings…and we didn’t capitalize….

[VladdyforHOF]

1 minute ago, T.G. said:

The fact that we can't explain it sometimes is what makes baseball beautiful. 

Sure an epic 6 run comeback by a great team can be beautiful to watch. But the Angels just handed this one away. When it's games like these, the manager just looks like an idiot - when it's blatantly obvious that poor choices were made managing the game.

[AngelsFaninGA]

Every year we seem to have our worst meltdowns against the Royals and A's

[warped]

Embarrassing,  wouldn't be surprised if Shohei demanded a trade after the game. 

[Stradling]

And there we have it.  Congrats!  

[Farmbuildingfan]

The silver lining is that this only counts as one loss, although it feels like three

[tdawg87]

Fuck.

[Farmbuildingfan]

Is anybody else jealous of Cals for getting love from Stradling that we are not getting?

[tdawg87]

1 minute ago, Farmbuildingfan said:

Is anybody else jealous of Cals for getting love from Stradling that we are not getting?

No.