Gameday Thread: (8/1/23) Angels @ Braves: Sandoval on the mound

[eligrba4ever]

The Halo glows a bit dimmer tonight. 

GO ANGELS!! WIN THIS SERIES WEDNESDAY!!

9 A.M.!!!

[cjcinec]

Got a chance to pull out a win tomorrow and make it a 6-3 roadie. Let’s get the rubber game and then come home and sweep the Mariners. Keep believing!

[rafibomb]

Game 2 was always going to be a long shot against Strider. Let’s take the series tomorrow.

[TroutField]

This offense has been killing this team’s opportunity to go on a nice little road winning streak. 
 

all three losses could have easily been won if they didn’t completely forget how to hit when a runner gets into scoring position. Mariners can leap frog us tonight…. 

[cjcinec]

Just now, rafibomb said:

Game 2 was always going to be a long shot against Strider. Let’s take the series tomorrow.

You’re right. Tonight was a challenge against Strider. Let’s get a W tomorrow and come home primed for the Mariners. Need to get some space between them.

[Duren, Duren]

Pretty feeble offensive showing. No room for error against Atlanta.

And Houston up 2 - 0 over Cleveland in the 8th. 

Got to wake up early literally and figuratively tomorrow. An important statement game.

 

[TroutField]

6-3 and 5-4 makes a huge difference on the road trip, feels like a must win tomorrow, to feel like the road trip was a success. 

[gurn67]

There's no way they were going to sweep the Braves. Today was going to be the toughest of the 3 to win. Especially after Atlanta lost yesterday. Tomorrow, on paper, looked like the easiest to win. At some point this team has to start getting SOME hits with RISP. Don't they??? 2 hits in the last 5 games now.

[cjcinec]

Unfortunately they can’t afford to lose any series at this point. Tomorrow is almost a must win on the road against the best team in baseball. Angels have 56 wins in 108 games it’s going to take 90 wins to make the playoffs. That means they need to win at least 34 out of the remaining 55 games or 62%. No more.500 baseball if you want to play in October.

[gurn67]

They really need to score a lot of runs early off Chirinos tomorrow. Dude has only started 5 games this season, and has an ERA of 6.93 and a WHIP of 1..541 with only 13 strikeouts in 24.2 innings with 21 runs and 29 hits allowed.