moccasin

yey, leadoff man on. We've scored 3 of the last 15 times this happened.

The A's are out-braining the Angels by far and the difference in discipline is night and day.

The Angels would have definitely tried for third on the fly out and get doubled up.

Leadoff man on. We've failed to score 11 of the last 14 times this happened.

Vargas looks good. Tough luck singles, but kept his composure.

I'm so stoked to see Trout running over Callaspo on a gapper from Pujols.

Pujols .346/.514/.692 now.

And the Angels pitching plans never adjust to it. It's a game of adjustments, and the A's are miles ahead of us.

The pitching sequence has been so predictable all game. Fastballs to get to 2 strikes, and breaking balls till it gets to 3 balls.

Wow Oakland lays off every single breaking ball. It's as though they know what's coming.

If Pujols was at first, 2 outs, nobody on.

When is Pujols going to back permanently at first?

Thank you Howie. That Trumbo K might have been a blessing in disguise. If Trumbo got on, definitely a pitching change, and a slider throwing righty would have came in.

Swings at ball 4 and 5.

Put Hamilton in FRONT of Pujols. Why can't MS see this?

This is why I don't like Hamilton behind Pujols. He's not going to get a single fastball.

Pujols looking like an absolute machine.

It was recorded as an error.

0 for 6 with RISP and counting.

Trout 1 for 8 with RISP this season.

This may be the Albert we were wishing to see last year. 9 walks vs 3 strike outs.

It seems like he succeeded the most when he had Andrus on first base with the Rangers. Trout should bat in front of him because so far, he's getting nothing but breaking balls. If they throw it in the dirt, Trout gets a SB. If not, Hamilton hits it.

It means "take off on this pitch". A green light is when you can go whenever you want. Maybe it isn't the right term, it's what they called it in my high school.

John Jaso has a career .539 OPS against lefties. There's a reason why Melvin brought in Jaso for their 5 hitter Norris(who is hitting .333 btw). He hits fastballs, and he hits righties. Melvin out managed MS so bad in the 7th inning, it was probably comical in his eyes. First he called the straight steal, guessed right on which pitch to go on, gave Cespedes a 2-0 count, got the walk, then brought in the ideal lefty, and MS didn't know what was going on the whole time.

He brought him in to face the righty, and then interfered with him by playing the pitch-out game, which he lost badly. Instead of just a stolen base, he also put Jepsen in a bad position, 2-0 against a good fastball hitter.