Gameday Thread (4/10/24 1pm): Rays @ Angels: Soriano on the mound, Rengifo, Adell in, no Rendon, Schanuel

[Duren, Duren]

Going for the series win and playing .500 plus should provide plenty of motivation. Especially as the finale of a homestand.

I can only watch the first hour live and need to be somewhere around 2 O'clock so hopefully they build a nice lead. 

Good chance for Adell to get into action in the field as well as at bat. 

[CaliAngel]

5 minutes ago, Slegnaac said:

Wonder if they would let Soriano pitch Monday and move Sandoval to Tuesday next week.

That would solve the issue of two soft tossing LHPs going back to back.

Oh...we're gonna do this again, I see...

[Vlad27Trout27]

Excited for Soriano's first start! as a prospect, I had a Luis severino ( when he was good) comp. Command/control plus the 3rd pitch will be key!

[Duren, Duren]

Oh. Oh. Not a clean start 

[CaliAngel]

There goes the no hitter.

And early contact from the Rays.

[Erstad Grit]

UGH that was an easy double play right at 2B. 

[Duren, Duren]

Talk about really tough luck. 

[CaliAngel]

Soriano get the f**k out of the way!

[Erstad Grit]

Geeze

[BTH]

There should be 3 outs.

Brutal batted ball luck.

[jsnpritchett]

Bizarre inning so far.

[Lhalo]

Don't see that everyday.

[Erstad Grit]

Well this blows. Thais is not a catcher. 

[jsnpritchett]

Two runs just scored on a wild pitch.  Wtf is going on??

[Duren, Duren]

Ugly ugly ugly

[Make Angels Great Again]

What a nice start.

[UndertheHalo]

This is awesome angels baseball.  They rock so much lol. 

[CaliAngel]

how is this happening

[bloodbrother]

Sano at 3B, Adell in CF, and Thaiss behind the plate is definitely the worst defensive configuration they can put out there

[Kendo36]

Worst case scenario here. 

[James]

1 minute ago, Erstad Grit said:

Well this blows. Thais is not a catcher. 

Regardless of how you feel about Thaiss, that wasn't on the catcher. 

[bloodbrother]

Don't even think Soriano is pitching poorly and yet it's 3-0.

[Duren, Duren]

Soriano only made 12 pitches and allowed three hits and a sac fly. Such economy for the Rays thanks to bad defense and bad luck. 

[Erstad Grit]

Just now, James said:

Regardless of how you feel about Thaiss, that wasn't on the catcher. 

The second runner scoring sure was

[Halo in Chicago]

Where's the reset button?