OC Register: Angels’ pitchers struggle on way to 9th loss in 10 games

[AngelsWin.com]

ANAHEIM — Reid Detmers had been the Angels’ best starting pitcher all season and Luis Garcia had been their best reliever over the past few weeks.

Both had a chance to help the Angels stop their slide on Sunday, and both endured miserable outings.

The Angels lost to the Minnesota Twins, 11-5, falling for the ninth time in the past 10 games. The Angels, who gave up 16 runs on Saturday, are 10-18

Detmers, who carried a 2.12 ERA to the mound, was charged with five runs in five-plus innings, all of them scoring after he started the game with three perfect innings.

The Angels briefly threatened to overcome Detmers’ performance and end their losing streak, striking for four quick runs to get back within 5-4, but then Garcia let it get away.

Garcia entered in the seventh with the Angels down by a run. He had not allowed a run in his previous nine games, and he’d gone 32 consecutive batters without issuing a walk.

Garcia walked two of the first three hitters of the inning, sandwiched around a bloop single. Garcia then gave up a two-run double to Alex Kiriloff. Two more runs scored before Garcia was pulled with the Angels down 9-4.

The Twins tacked on two unearned runs against Zac Kristofak in his major league debut.

The first batter that Kristofak faced reached on an error by second baseman Brandon Drury. It was one of three errors the Angels made on an ugly afternoon.

A pitchers’ duel between Detmers and Twins righty Pablo López disintegrated quickly.

Neither pitcher allowed a single baserunner through the first three innings, but Detmers cracked in the fourth, allowing a run on three hits. In the fifth, he gave up four more runs after allowing the first four batters of the inning to get hits.

Down 5-0 in the bottom of the fifth, the Angels finally got their first baserunner when Logan O’Hoppe doubled down the left field line.

Within the next 13 pitches, the Angels scored four runs. Jo Adell ripped a line drive off the glove of third baseman José Miranda, stretching it into a double as the ball trickled into left field.

Luis Rengifo then hit a first-pitch two-run homer, and Nolan Schanuel followed by yanking a homer just inside the right field pole.

The Angels went down in the order in the sixth, and by the time they came up in the seventh, they were down by five again.

More to come on this story.

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[jsnpritchett]

Lol.  Fletch had this one written by about the 5th inning.  Couldn't wait to hit "publish" after that last out!

Edited April 29 by jsnpritchett

[Vlad27Trout27]

it's been the same bs past 3 years. Rendon goes down and these mental midgets break down. it's been the same bs past 3 years; Rendon goes down, teams 7 to 8 straight, trout follows and than the rest. 

 

 

[jsnpritchett]

In the updated and fleshed out version of the article on the OC Register site, it says that there was a team meeting after the game.  An excerpt:

“The thing that was disheartening is to watch us just fall apart on the defensive side, fall apart on the offensive side, fall apart in the pitching department,” Washington said. “The three things that are necessary to be successful, we fell apart this weekend doing.”

Washington didn’t have to single out any of his players because it has been a group failure.

“I’m not going to throw any of my players under the bus, because I know how hard they work,” Washington said. “But I’m disappointed and I know they’re disappointed and we have to do better. We can do better and we will do better.”

[Make Angels Great Again]

Damn. Wash with the “I’m not mad, im disappointed in you.”

[yamsi12]

This team is such trash.

[fan_since79]

It's the franchise that's a mess and it produces a mess of a team. Where's the plan? Where's the farm system? How many more years will we finish under .500? Ten, fifteen? Or more? Is this team done as a playoff contender for the duration of my life? Yes, I'm selfish in that regard. And another thing, a mystery of sorts. How the hell can the team be selling out many nights at the stadium while putting on this awful show?!

[Sully151]

7 minutes ago, fan_since79 said:

How the hell can the team be selling out many nights at the stadium while putting on this awful show?!

Did you see the Mandalorian Rally Monkey?

[fan_since79]

1 minute ago, Sully151 said:

Did you see the Mandalorian Rally Monkey?

They'd better have more of these giveaways.

It's pathetic what we've been reduced to. The game is hardly relevant at this point. What a franchise...