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

[nando714]

And we’re back !

At least we played a week and a half of respectable baseball 

baby steps 

[James]

Just now, Kendo36 said:

Worst case scenario here. 

Nope, had he broke his foot on the ball hit back at him, that would have been worse. 

[Vlad27Trout27]

Tough luck! 2 potential Dp. 

[CaliAngel]

1 minute ago, James said:

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

Maybe not the first run...but the second one certainly is.

[T.G.]

It's so freakin' deflating to see the Angels fall behind in the first inning. 

[Lhalo]

Why did Thaiss fire it to 3B on the 3rd out?

[James]

1 minute ago, Erstad Grit said:

The second runner scoring sure was

Possibly although I would still blame it on the wild pitch. 

[T.G.]

The needle is stuck on this record. 

[jsnpritchett]

Just now, Lhalo said:

Why did Thaiss fire it to 3B on the 3rd out?

[T.G.]

C'mon Halos.  Let's freakin' GO!

[greginpsca]

The shitstorm continues.

[jsnpritchett]

Just now, greginpsca said:

The shitstorm continues.

[TroutField]

Everyone said I was dumb when I said keep Soriano in the pen and quit this starting experiment…. This is what we get for not signing any starting rotation depth. 
 

The best rotation is 

Detmers 

Anderson 

Canning 

Sandoval 

5th starter (problem is we don’t have one with Silseth hurt) 

Leads to the normal pen being… 

Soriano 

Moore 

Stephenson (when he’s healthy) 

Estevez 

 

Oh well, games over in the 1st. Series starts off great and then they shit the bed the rest of the series…. angels baseball  

 

[Duren, Duren]

A back up catcher should be a good  defensive player. Wasn't Wallach supposed to have been like that? Suzuki at his age was past his prime. They really need a better option. O'Hoppe will need rest and catching is hard on the body. 

[T.G.]

Just now, TroutField said:

Everyone said

[Slegnaac]

F Doug Eddings

[Erstad Grit]

Of course Eddings, Angel's favorite umpire. Great lead off at bat there stolen from Rengifo

[Duren, Duren]

I see this ump crew maintains their terrible ball/strike status. 

[CaliAngel]

Just now, TroutField said:

Everyone said I was dumb when I said keep Soriano in the pen and quit this starting experiment….

 

Soriano is not even pitching that poorly, he just needs to stop getting in the way of the balls that are hit to him.

[daygloman]

Eddings has ALWAYS been a worthless piece of SHIT! 

[bloodbrother]

Jesus what an atrocious strike call

[bloodbrother]

Just now, CaliAngel said:

Soriano is not even pitching that poorly, he just needs to stop getting in the way of the balls that are hit to him.

There wasn't anything he could really do about that 1st one. Hit his cleat almost instantly. 2nd one he should've let go but your first instinct when a ball it hit towards you is to stick your glove out to field it. It was just an inning of stupid bad luck

[T.G.]

Good AB for Moniak.

[CaliAngel]

Should have 2 on, no outs.

[Duren, Duren]

Should be two on, no out. Chip away.