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The ump has been screwing him over all night.

This series wake-up call could be a blessing in disguise. The season is still very young and I think it's good to get a heaping dose of reality sooner than later. In addition, I'm hoping that the Ohtani hype will subside so that he doesn't have monstrous expectations placed on him. He's still a rookie after all and everyone's placed superstar status on him after one week (guilty as well), that's a lot of pressure on anybody. In a way, I don't mind that he falls back down to earth for a little while so he gets a chance to progress naturally.

Incredible play by Simmons!

OMG! WTF

Easy lad, I'm not expecting much from Ohtani tonight, he's still a rookie and doesn't have that mentality yet.

Let's go boys. Redemption game.

It was frustrating because a few of the pitches that weren't called strikes on Ohtani were called for Price. With that said, the umpire didn't cause Ohtani's pitches to be all over the place. It is what it is, a bad outing and we're all hoping that this was largely due to the blisters on his index finger rather than inconsistency. Tonight's game can't come fast enough!

Too easy, Ohtani and Bard had the quickest exit velocities from the mound to the showers.

What the hell is going on lol.

LOL! OMG I feel bad for all the fans that shelled out big bucks to watch this.

Nice jump on the ball Trout.

On the bright side, the inning could have been a lot worse since Ohtani looks off. Hopefully he'll shake off the cobwebs and get back in rhythm.

First .... j/k. I have some money on tonight's game, can't wait!

Ooops.

Nice outing so far Barria.

OK so I have a few noob questions for you guys, having checked out of baseball for quite sometime now, with the exception of watching Blue Jays playoff run a few years back. - Mike Trout. He seems to be the best production player in baseball right now? I've heard a lot about Bryce Harper who's a year younger and later into the league but Trout seems to have the better numbers overall. Altuve seems to be the hot guy over the past few years but he's a bit smaller and not so much a power hitter right? - So we all know that the Dodgers have always been one of the biggest market teams in baseball. If we were to compare the Angels to the Dodgers, would it be fair to say that the Angels are like the Brooklyn Nets or L.A. Clippers of the NBA compared to their bigger brothers? Maybe this is finally the time where the Angels can gain much ground on the Dodgers in terms of popularity and market size? What about salary cap, ast I checked, baseball isn't a fair sport in this regard where teams like the Yankees or Dodgers could have an unfair advantage to how much they can pay their roster. How do the Angels stack up in terms of overall salary and revenue? - It's great to see changes to baseball that weren't there years ago. These new stats are weird to me, OBP, OPS? I'm glad that not everything is based on batting average where guys like Wade Boggs and Tony Gwynn got all the credit for being the best batters in baseball. *They were great players, not trying to take anything away but these new stats are pretty interesting. - The square graphic in the batters box with the pitch speed is pretty darn cool, when did they start doing this? I notice this is only some broadcasts but I like it! That's all I got for now....thx.

Wow, what a game, this team is legit!

Hi everyone! Another new Angels fan due to Ohtani, but don't worry I will not be an annoying fan boy that just roots for one guy. I'm from Canada and grew up watching the Expos and Blue Jays; been to many live games at Olympic Stadium, old Exhibition stadium in Toronto and of course, the Skydome. I basically flunked an entire university semester in the early 90s due to watching every single Blue Jays game down the stretch during exams, it was worth it as they took home the title in 92 and 93 My recollection of the Angels have been with Rod Carew, Wally Joyner, Jim Abbott and then Jim Edmonds . I've also been used to the California and Anaheim Angels, didn't even realized that they changed their city to L.A. until now lol. I'm liking what I see from this Angels crew, they all seem like really good guys and very supportive of Ohtani despite him garnering much of the attention. The Angels bats look pretty good to me thus far, as for the pitching depth that remains to be seen. This should be a very fun season to watch! Let's go L.A. Angels!