Gameday Thread (2/29/24): Guardians @ Angels: Sandoval on the mound

[jsnpritchett]

[jsnpritchett]

On another note, the A's are coming after me! 

[Blarg]

In before @Angels 1961 asks who is pitching today.

[Blarg]

And I will repeat, Trout is hitting...

[James]

14 minutes ago, Blarg said:

And I will repeat, Trout is hitting...

[Chuck]

46 minutes ago, jsnpritchett said:

On another note, the A's are coming after me! 

Your good work here is searchable on Google. Well done! 

[jsnpritchett]

 

[Blarg]

58 minutes ago, jsnpritchett said:

 

If there were only some cheap, proven, starter out there Minasian could pick up.

[Chuck]

 

[daygloman]

Go Halos!

[jsnpritchett]

Very fast and easy top of the first for Sandoval.  Here's hoping we see more of those in the regular season!

[PattyD22]

Terry Smith struggled more reading the names of the Guardians starting line up than Sandoval did in the top of the first.

Some tough names for Terry in the line up

[jsnpritchett]

A fly ball for Schanuel!  Progress, I guess?  He fouled a ball off his foot (or maybe shin?) before the flyout, though.  Bobby Valentine is wondering whether he'll come out to play 1B in the next inning.

[jsnpritchett]

As usual, Valentine's speculations lead to nothing.  Schanuel is out there at first base.

[jsnpritchett]

19 pitches for Sandoval through two innings!  That's usually one batter's worth for him.  Nice!

[Ochocinco!]

This Guardians pitcher can’t control anything inside. Hoping he can get out of this game without hitting any of our guys. A couple close calls already 

[PattyD22]

Taylor Ward got throw up and in, including 2 very close to his face, and seemed to react OK, even though he wiffed on an outside curve ball.

I think this is going to be a normal thing to see for him and he seemed to deal with it fairly Ok.  Good to see.

[PattyD22]

12 minutes ago, jsnpritchett said:

As usual, Valentine's speculations lead to nothing.  

Like when he said he’d bet “ dollars to doughnuts” that Sandoval would be out there to pitch the 3rd inning.

For the record, Silseth is out there for the 3rd

[Ochocinco!]

Valentine is fking clueless how tf do they let this dude call an entire game even if it is spring training 

[greginpsca]

17 minutes ago, jsnpritchett said:

19 pitches for Sandoval through two innings!  That's usually one batter's worth for him.  Nice!

Last year he would have had 45-50 pitches thru 2 innings.

[daygloman]

Far out!

Go Halos!

[jsnpritchett]

Neto with a blast to CF on a 3-0 count!

[Ochocinco!]

That ball hit the top of the batters eye in center field, what a shot from Neto 

[PattyD22]

Neto now with more home runs (1) in spring training than Trout has hits (0).

not that it matters, it’s just a fact.  For now.

[oldguy]

Trout still has that hole in his swing.  Hopefully he can fix because he's been putting up Dave Kingman-like strikeout numbers.