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

[AvsBroncosAngels05]

Get em Wash!

[UndertheHalo]

Welp 

[UndertheHalo]

GET EM RON 

[Mark68]

Eddings is a fucking coward.

[CaliAngel]

Too little too late Wash.

[m0nkey]

Two games in a row #3 hitter Mike Trout ends the game on deck.  Nice

[James]

What a joke. Only one with a better gig are politicians. Zero accountability. 

[katie]

Tell em Ron

[The Ghost of Bob Starr]

No Rendon, we lose. 

[Slegnaac]

That bogus 3rd strike call in the first inning changed the whole course of the game.

[Mark68]

1 minute ago, James said:

What a joke. Only one with a better gig are politicians. Zero accountability. 

At least you can vote on politicians. For now. 

[CaliAngel]

So basically, this game was done 20 pitches in, 2.5 hours ago.

[Angel Oracle]

8 minutes ago, Mark68 said:

Geefy needs to play every day. 

He wasn’t too bad against RHP in 2023, and mashed LHP.

[T.G.]

Let's get 'em Friday... in Boston.

[jsnpritchett]

 

[Duren, Duren]

I was out of the house since the second inning. Snuck in a few updates on the ESPN pitch by pitch site. 

Looked like a really frustrating game. Pitching didn't allow a walk. The wild pitch and horrible ball/strike calls seemed to be the main factors. Plus more anemic clutch hitting. 

Oh well, it is what it is. .500 is alright at the present. 

These umps seem to have no accountability. Year in, year out they rarely get better. I'd love to see them watch some of those 3D graphics of their bad calls. You can live with marginal close ones, but we see more really game changing bad calls. Betting connections? These days nothing can be overlooked. 

[Angelsjunky]

The Angels could be 6-10 after playing in Boston.

There's still hope for 6-14.

[Blarg]

1 hour ago, Chuck said:

Been out today with a colonoscopy today but I’m happy to report that everything came back good. I’m clean and don’t have to do another one for another 10 years. 

So far I can’t tell the difference between the whole colonoscopy experience today and the Angels play this afternoon. 

The similarities are quite telling. 

Shitty pitching & defense & the offense has been ass.

Not to play one upmanship but Ankle surgery trumps a colonoscopy for excuses for missing today's game. 

[The Ghost of Bob Starr]

I missed it by choice and just saw how the game ended clown show. 
 

get well blarg. Your ankle will be healed for snark soon.  And chuck, good to see you clean out the poop chute for the upcoming season. 

[Mark68]

As someone who has had many surgeries on his foot, I wish that I had had one today as an excuse to miss this clunker.

 

Good to hear your colon is clean, Chuck. 

 

And I hope surgery went well, Blarg.

[HeavenlyHalos]

Doug Eddings is a god awful umpire. There are zero ramifications for such shitty umpiring. Bring on the robotic strike zone.

[EDinTUSTIN]

8 hours ago, Angels 1961 said:

 

Sano can go an inn

Welp, at this point, he may as well. He is a better pitcher than he is a hitter.

[tdawg87]

4 hours ago, jsnpritchett said:

 

I'll bite the bullet again. I'll be the bad guy again that speaks what I think is the truth. And hopefully the league, I mean they're probably gonna fine me, and once again I'll take the fine, but I think it's hurting our game.

[rafibomb]

Soriano has got what it takes to be a really good starter. He was still hitting 99 towards the end of his start (around 70 pitches) so the velocity held really well. All in all I'd say it was encouraging for his starting prospects. Needs to just trust his elite stuff and not overthrowing. Also that first inning was just flat out stupid.

Edited April 11 by rafibomb

[Chuck]

I really love how Ron Washington holds his players accountable. 

He's right. That was embarrassing.