Ludwig Von Mises

BLAST

31 outs on the basepaths. At least the Angels lead the AL in something. Nice HR Howie. It's been a while. Disar blew it again.

TROUT! Damn, this guy is good. Great AB.

That was murdered.

Same here, but then I remembered that he doesn't hit opposite field homers anymore.

And Conger has a career .393 OBP against lefty pitching, but almost never plays against them. And Calhoun has a career line .287/.326/.425 against lefties but still gets routinely benched against them. Platooning is fine. I like it when managers use the platoon to press an advantage. Scioscia uses it to press a disadvantage.

Great game, even with the nightmare 9th. Got the win and hopefully gained valuable knowledge on who should never pitch in a closer situation again.

A sick whore could have gotten a hit off Frieri tonight. That should have been obvious to everyone by the 3rd batter. Everyone except Ebel and Butch.

They are ultra-patient, but it won't matter if hector doesn't give them ball 4. He was really locating well last night. If he is wild the A's would not be a good team to face.

Hector has a 2.13 ERA when throwing to Hank in 25.1 innings. Yes, I know, that's a noisy stat, a tiny sample size combined with an unsustainable babip (.219). All of those things are true. It's also true that pairing a pitcher with iffy control with a catcher proven to steal a lot of strikes (+58 this year, +136 last year) makes a lot of sense. It's not the complete answer. If Hector is so wild that no amount of framing will even matter or if he runs into an ultra-patient offense he could still blow up for 7ER in 2 innings. For the moment I wouldn't change a thing.

Reverse Cowgill!! That sac bunt pissed me off but that walk off makes everything okay.

YES! Now win this thing.

FVCK!

Smith is available. He pitched the previous 2 games, not 3. Saving him for the 9th I guess.

Thanks a lot Albie. PS. Quit shaking Hank, Morin.

Need a k here. Strand him at 3rd.

pendejo

DonaLOLson. Great range but can't ignore those errors.

Run Trout Run

Angel offense only scoring 1.88 runs per start for Hector this year. Not much has changed I see.

From today's game: I count 10 pitches outside the actual strike zone that were called strikes for the Angels (red boxes). Just one pitch (green box) inside the strikezone that was called a ball. +9, not bad for Conger. By my count the A's were +1 Maybe the A's have good reason to bltch but Conger really is great at stealing strikes and preserving strikes inside the zone near the black.

Is freri available tonight? Maybe not. He's pitched 3 days in a row.

Nice job for smith. The A's had scored 7ER off of him in just 2.2 innings coming in. I'd have Morin warming in the pen in case Frieri walks the leadoff man or other nonsense.

Great start by Richards. Wish he could go one more.

There is about a 2 and a half or 3 feet flat concrete shelf between the railing and the front of the scoreboard. It's wide enough that it blocks your view when the lf makes alot of catches. A fan can reach over the rail but not into the field of play (field of play being in front of the scoreboard, not the concrete shelf which apparently they've now put a yellow line). I think they missed that one.