Kurt Z

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I would fail one as well. 1792 12 year

Schanuel today, to all of the doubters:

He is still not caring/loving baseball enough. 

Listening to the Orioles feed. I cannot listen to O'NEAL butcher another broadcast. 

I can't remember, if due to my health at the time, if I attended that Chalk Talk
And if I did I probably didn't write up a summary like this, again due to my health. 
 
I am so glad that I'm doing better now. 

I think some of you have unrealistic expectations regarding player performances in Spring Training games. Pitchers frequently work on certain aspects of their game and aren't competing the way they would in a regular season game.

I thought Vasgersian was, too, but I honestly really don't like him anymore, so I'm fine if he just goes back to whatever else he's doing.  He's a step up from O'Neal, but that's certainly damning with faint praise.

Electric is spot on,we would go watch him warm up in the bullpen and you could hear the seams on the baseball cutting through the air.The pop of the catchers mitt was so loud you could almost hear it in the whole stadium.There were plenty of games when he pitched that there was less than 10,000 people at the game.

#17 -Sept. 27, 1973: Ryan strikes out 383 to pass Koufax

Heading into his final start of the 1973 season, Nolan Ryan had already accomplished more than most pitchers these days can claim in two or three seasons.
38 starts. 25 complete games. Four shutouts. 20 victories. 22 games with 10 or more strikeouts. Heck, he even recorded a save, pitching the final two innings a day after the shortest start of his career (0.1 inning) to secure an Angels 6-5 victory on May 12.
And, oh yeah, he also tossed two no-hitters, on May 15 and July 15.
With all of that already under his belt, it seems almost absurd that Ryan saved his best for last. You see, while he was ringing up all of those strikeouts, they were adding up to something potentially very special.
During his first five September starts (all complete game victories), Ryan struck out 53 batters, giving him 367 strikeouts for the year – 15 shy of Sandy Koufax’s Major League record 382 in 1965.
Nursing a torn calf muscle, Ryan took the Anaheim Stadium mound in front of just 9,100 fans looking to make history one more time in 1973. When the Twins immediately jumped out to a 3-0 first inning lead, it didn’t seem likely he’d stick around long enough to collect the requisite strikeouts – though he did fan the side in the inning.
The Angels answered with three in the bottom of the first and Ryan had new life. Through five innings, he had 11 strikeouts and the Angels led, 4-3. In the sixth, the Twins pushed across the tying run, which would prove fortuitous for Ryan later in the night.
In the seventh, he again struck out the side, giving him 14 strikeouts, one shy of tying Koufax. But he’d also walked six batters, allowed seven hits and was piling up a lot of pitches on an aching leg. In the eighth, Ryan struck out Steve Brye to end the inning, tying Koufax with No. 382.
After nine innings, the game remained tied, 4-4, with Ryan stalled at 15 punchouts. And when he pitched a scoreless 10th, sandwiching a fly ball between two groundouts, fans wondered if he had enough left for one more inning.
With reliever Steve Barber warming in the bullpen, the Angels went 1-2-3 in the bottom of the inning. Announcer Dick Enberg made the call.
“The crowd is standing in anticipation, watching the bullpen gate,” Enberg said, pausing in his own anticipation. “And here he comes!”
Ryan jumped ahead of Brye, 1-2, but the center fielder grounded out to short. Ryan’s body language couldn’t disguise his fatigue or his frustration.
“Ryan now is like the heavyweight fighter with a knockout punch that has gone so many rounds that he has his opponent staggering and staggering but doesn’t have enough left to deliver that one blow that will knock him to the canvas and put him away,” Enberg said. “He’s getting the two strikes on hitters, but can’t get the third.”
Next up was Rod Carew, who struck out only 55 times in 1973, though three of them came earlier in this game. Carew drew a walk, Ryan’s seventh of the game, bringing manager Bobby Winkles to the mound. The crowd bristled, but Enberg was unfazed.
“He is going to let Nolan Ryan pitch as long as he wants,” Enberg said.
During Tony Oliva’s at-bat, Carew broke for second, drawing a throw – and a gasp from the crowd, which did not him to be thrown out, thus robbing Ryan of an opportunity for the 16th strikeout. Carew was safe. Oliva, however, flew out to center field, bringing up light hitting Rich Reese, who’d pinch run for Harmon Killebrew in the ninth.
“You can feel through the crowd a vibration saying, ‘Maybe this is the guy,’ ” Enberg said.
Reese swung and missed at Ryan’s first two pitches, another two-strike opportunity for the right-hander. On Ryan’s 0-2 pitch…
“Swung on and missed! Nolan Ryan is the Major League strikeout king of all time! He walks off the mound, his teammates come over to greet him one by one, the fans stand cheering.
“Ladies and gentlemen, we have seen one of the finest young men to ever wear a baseball uniform record one of the most incredible records in Major League history. Three hundred and eighty-three for Nolan Ryan!
“Fans are shaking hands with each other as if they’re all part of this great night, as if to say, ‘Yes, we saw it. We saw it all.’ ”
With their ace now the strikeout king, the Angels rewarded Ryan with the victory when pinch hitter Richie Scheinblum doubled home Tommy McCraw with the game-winner in the bottom of the 11th.
Ryan finished 1973 with a 21-16 record, 2.87 ERA and finished second in Cy Young Award voting to Jim Palmer. But it was the last pitch he threw that season that remains his most memorable.
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I voted for Ryan's 383 K season, back then Nolan was the only reason to go to the games. I went with a friend of mine to every home start for Ryan,so it seems more personel for me. Ryan also picked up a save that year pitching 2 innings and striking out 4,which in the end pushed him past Koufax.The fact he passed a Dodger was the cherry on top and as always F the Dodgers.

I'm tired of seeing players come to the Angels after spending their most productive years in another organization. The list is long...
Can Votto actually mentor enough of the young players to turn them into better players?  Just because he helped one guy (that we know of) doesn't mean he can help others.  Maybe he can.  Maybe he can't.  But do the Angels really want to use a roster spot to find out?  I'm guessing J.D. Martinez could have a similar impact and he's more likely to have a productive season.  Not that I even want the Angels to sign JDM.
There isn't a magic bullet that's going to transform this organization.
The Angels need to find a more permanent solution for developing their own players.   
 

I was in attendance for two of those games, Sutton's 300th in '86, and Pujols' 600th in 2017.  The 600th, a grand slam off of Ervin Santana, was very nice, but the 300th win by Sutton was special.  

I wasn't even alive for the first 3. 
I'm not gonna turn this into a Pujols hate thread because we already have plenty of those. I will say that seeing someone hit #600 while wearing your team's uniform is an unbelievably rare occurrence and it's only going to become more special and rare over time. Hell even #500 is a really big deal.
Hopefully we get to see that in a few years...

Carew for me. I know all of them played longer for other clubs but Carew came to the Angels at the time I was old enough to start knowing who the players were and he was there a big chunk of my childhood. 

If it were my decision I'd have made Reggie wear an Orioles cap on his plaque just for spite but watching Reggie do anything was more memorable than the others so he gets my vote

Lol. You do realize that Jackson, Carew, and Sutton all came to the Angels on the downsides of their careers, right? Do you honestly think any of them SHOULD be in the HOF wearing an Angels cap?
As to the main question of the thread, Jackson's 500th is the most memorable for me. I have a signed picture of it. 

Sorry but the fact that Jackson, Carew and Sutton all went into the HOF wearing some other club's uniform and not wearing an Angel uniform means they are dead to me. I will also put Pujols in that category as I fully expect he will be enshrined in a Cardinal uniform some day.
The only  milestone I care about was the World Championship in 2002.
And having said that I look forward to (SOMEDAY!!!!!) winning another one.
~ArkyAngelsFan~

Was at the game for Pujols hitting 600. It was cool. I was too young to appreciate the other ones, but I grew up a huge Reggie fan so I was as excited as a kid could be... who didn't actually see it, just read it in the paper.

Was at the game when Reggie hit #500. Fans were into it.
Was sitting behind home plate when Nolie got SO #383 to surpass some lefty named Koufax.
Also, watching Nolie (on TV) no-hit the Tigers (in Detroit), with 17 SO's
 

Was at the game when Reggie hit #500. Fans were into it.
Was sitting behind home plate when Nolie got SO #383 to surpass some lefty named Koufax.
Also, watching Nolie (on TV) no-hit the Tigers (in Detroit), with 17 SO's
 

Was at the game when Reggie hit #500. Fans were into it.
Was sitting behind home plate when Nolie got SO #383 to surpass some lefty named Koufax.
Also, watching Nolie (on TV) no-hit the Tigers (in Detroit), with 17 SO's
 

The year the Angels won their third consecutive playoff series. 
I think it was 2002. 

I don't see an option for this important milestone:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/GIDP_career.shtml