Gameday Thread: (8/19/23 Game 2 6pm): Rays @ Angels: Sandoval on the mound, Adams in CF

[jsnpritchett]

1 minute ago, TroutField said:

17-1?! God damn lol 

 

and not in a good way like the Rockies game. 
 

man this team is such ass 

Sir, it is 17-4.

[cjcinec]

Barria is dogshit ! If he had any dignity at all he would fake an injury. Phil Nevin using Barria is as stupid as they come in managerial moves. Nevins Managerial career tombstone will have pictures of Barria and Estevez on it.

[Skankhunt42]

The Angels suck so bad, I'm watching preseason football instead.

[BTH]

37 minutes ago, VladdyforHOF said:

Why did Carrlyn Bathe replace Erica Weston?

she was too negative

/s

[eligrba4ever]

Angels Pitcher of the Game: Eduardo Escobar.

[eligrba4ever]

Winning 1 out of 3 isn't gonna get the Angels closer to .500. 3rd place Seattle is disappearing over the horizon. Not to mention Houston, Texas and the present WC leaders.

[eligrba4ever]

Than You for Watching.

The Halo dims some more tonight.

[daygloman]

The bludgeoning has come to an end.

FINALLY.

SMFH.

 

[greginpsca]

11 minutes ago, eligrba4ever said:

Angels Pitcher of the Game: Eduardo Escobar.

Really sad, but true.

[eligrba4ever]

Batten down the hatches, SoCal. Reds on Monday. Might have a chance to win that series.

[Duren, Duren]

Realistically, .500 is the only achievable objective. It's all in their hands. And not contingent on what other teams do or the standings. 

Talking about the playoffs now is delusional. Right or wrong they thought they were going to have momentum after the deadline moves. It imploded instead. The replacement additions and second stringers just haven't been good enough. No veteran other than Ohtani has carried the team or made a difference. And the manager hasn't worked any magic with his in game strategies and moves. 

At best they can be a .500 team and have a reasonable argument that it was the best they could do under the circumstances. But now even getting to .500 looks more and more like a difficult goal. 

[Sho Way That Was A Strike]

I hope we have seen the last of Barria. 

[Jason]

4 hours ago, Jason said:

Time to stop these shitty starts. Hopefully Sandoval has his A game tonight. 

I guess not. This pitching staff is quite terrible 

[Turd Ferguson]

33 minutes ago, Stradling said:

Does this look like a playoff team to you?  That thought ended with that 7 game losing streak after the deadline. 

It hasn't since May and I advocated for trading Shohei, but that is revisionist, and we won't re-litigate that.

The issue with this team isn't talent, its philosophy. I think we've seen that with some trades (Mous, Cron, Grichuk) and call-ups. We need a culture shift, not a talent shift. It's a work in progress but I like the direction.

I think Perry is PHENOMENAL and I hope he gets the chance to actually build his own team. "Ownership" just needs to get out of the way, for once.

 

[jsnpritchett]

3 minutes ago, Jason said:

I guess not. This pitching staff is quite terrible 

Yep.  They've given up the 3rd-most runs in the AL. Only KC and the A's have given up more.  At this rate, it's conceivable that they might pass KC before the season is over. 

[Angel Oracle]

18 minutes ago, Duren, Duren said:

Realistically, .500 is the only achievable objective. It's all in their hands. And not contingent on what other teams do or the standings. 

Talking about the playoffs now is delusional. Right or wrong they thought they were going to have momentum after the deadline moves. It imploded instead. The replacement additions and second stringers just haven't been good enough. No veteran other than Ohtani has carried the team or made a difference. And the manager hasn't worked any magic with his in game strategies and moves. 

At best they can be a .500 team and have a reasonable argument that it was the best they could do under the circumstances. But now even getting to .500 looks more and more like a difficult goal. 

And have to go 20-17 to achieve that.

After going 17-27 in past 44 games, that’s a tall order.

[rottiesworld]

20 minutes ago, Sho Way That Was A Strike said:

I hope we have seen the last of Barria. 

And the stupid manager

[T-angel]

Time to honestly look in the mirror. Even if we had Rendon, Trout, Neto, O'Hoppe for the full year, we all can see that this team would have been undone by its pitching anyways. Just in the last week, how many times have we let the opposing team scrore 8+ runs? A real playoff team could go an entire season without giving up 12+ even once and we've done it at least three times this week alone. The pitching/catching philosophy needs to be revisited (or blown up) and reconstructed. From the minors to the majors and down to the scouting at all levels. I miss the days of Stoneman, Bud Black, and Scioscia. The pitching and catching were in sync up and down the organization and the results reflected that. It may be time to poach people from other organizations with a history of successful pitching results and consider if we can find someone to bring back the skills in catching taught by Scioscia. 

[Tank]

5 hours ago, Jason said:

Time to stop these shitty starts. Hopefully Sandoval has his A game tonight. 

[Jason]

30 minutes ago, Tank said:

[TroutField]

Maybe the hurricane can wash the stadium away, and the MLB lets the angels dissolve. They are just no longer an MLB team Lol

[Mark68]

Oh, did Sandoval have another bonehead shitty start? Did Barria shit the bed again? Color me shocked. 

 

We need to rid ourselves of Barriass. And Sandoval needs a fucking shrink.

[Docwaukee]

I was chatting with a friend about the Angels with the game on in the background at a kind of school year kick off bbq.  

Trying to explain to him why the team is so frustrating and how they just play bad baseball.  The score was 2-0 at the time .  

About 30 minutes later, he totally understood.  

I made some killer smoked pulled pork though.  

[gurn67]

They have now given up 22 more runs this month than the 2nd worst team in MLB. lol

They've given up 79 more runs than the Rangers.

ERA 0.97 higher than the 29th worst Rockies pitching staff.

ERA 4.12 higher than the Dodgers.

7-15 since July 28th and outscored 139-73. The pitching is actually somehow getting worse, not better.

 

[CaliAngel]

Adams pulled an Adell with 2 outs, and his error gave the Rays a chance to put this game out of reach. 

Why can't we get a rookie who can catch a GD flyball?