The Los Angeles Angels celebrate their extra inning win over the Boston Red Sox Thursday afternoon.
Final Score: Angels 5, Chowds 4
In a game that saw 5 Angels relievers and Ervin Santana's 2009 season debut, Jeff Mathis won it with a 12th inning single scoring pinch-runner Reggie Willits. The Angels bullpen held the Red Sox to one run over 7 innings, the one run given up by struggling Scot Shields, giving the Red Sox new life with a run in the 8th.
Santana was inconsistent in his debut, giving up 3 runs, 7 hits and 3 walks through 5 innings (92 pitches; 52 strikes, 40 balls). However, he showed he is still able to get the strikeout as he sat down 5 Sox, including David Ortiz with the bases loaded to end the 4th inning.
Torii Hunter, Erick Aybar, and Bobby Abreu each hit triples in the game, while Hunter was a homer shy of the cycle, driving in 3 runs. The big hit came off the bat of Mathis in the 12th ending the game and giving the Halo's the series win. The RBI single was Mathis' second run driven in in the game, as he'd previously tied the game in the 7th with a sacrifice fly to score Aybar.
The Angels' bullpen, after a season of struggles, held the Red Sox scoreless in extra-innings, including Jason Bulger getting out of a bases loaded two out jam in the 12th by striking out Dustin Pedroia and getting David Ortiz to ground out to first. With the bases jammed ground out, Ortiz added 3 more runners left on base, giving him 12 in the game, including 3 strikeouts.
The win gives the Angels an 18-15 record, a game-and-a-half behind division leading Texas Rangers, who the Halos face this weekend in Arlington.
0 recs | 52 comments
Jeff Mattress.....
for finally ending that…….
Thank you good sir.
norcaliangelsfan - May 14, 2009
plus.......
he’s totally gonna get laid now.
norcaliangelsfan - May 14, 2009
great nick name
Mattress!
Jay Cal - May 14, 2009
W I N
vlad IS my man - May 14, 2009
"Tori"
Panther
Funke5ive - May 14, 2009
44FAN - May 14, 2009
Thanks Jeffy
But my panther has got to go to HULA DULa..dude was nails on offense and defense and that play he made in the 11th, holy shit!
P237 - May 14, 2009
hula dula was being hula dula
Jeff was BEYOND his usual
ladybug - May 14, 2009
i dunno mathis has hit quite a few in the clutch
and just because hula dulas average is panther doesnt mean we shouldn’t vote for his average.
teopeht - May 14, 2009
Well than any time he gets a hit much less an RBI he will get my vote.
hauldog - May 14, 2009
That's what he do, every day.
Jeff came through in the ultimate clutch situation when nobody else quite could.
44FAN - May 14, 2009
Intense
If I could vote all 4 for Panther, I would. Had to close my eyes and click.
Shields needs to get his shit together.
ReggieBullits - May 14, 2009
Jeff called a good game.
Minus Shields.
TheTypingFiend - May 14, 2009
44FAN - May 14, 2009
Worst tat’s I’ve ever seen…
BrentSchmidt - May 14, 2009
Army guy alert, where's pendletonmike? LOL
They are not the best I have ever seen either but they seem to fit Santana’s personality.
44FAN - May 14, 2009
I’m an army guy, but not pendletonmike… and I hope he’s an army guy stationed there and not a marine, otherwise he may not like that nick name for him, lol.
BrentSchmidt - May 14, 2009
I'm pretty sure pendletonmike
acquired his name from the camp.
or maybe from this guy
TheTypingFiend - May 14, 2009
At first
I thought he was a grunge rocker.
rspencer - May 14, 2009
Panther = Torii
Bulger got himself into trouble to get himself out of. But the whole pen played well tonight.
eyespy - May 14, 2009
How does Torii win the Panther?
The defensive and the offense put together make his contribution worth more than the rest of the team combined.
He drove in the first three runs and made an amazing game saving catch in center.
WTF?
hauldog - May 14, 2009
If you meant how does he NOT win panther, then I totally agree with you :)
Higz - May 14, 2009
Yep
deejayelleseven - May 14, 2009
That is what I meant
In such disbelief I made a typo
hauldog - May 14, 2009
I agree...
Funke5ive - May 14, 2009
because mathis let me get back to work finally
TheAngelsAngels - May 14, 2009
I've got to vote for Bulger
but what a great team effort
hk47 - May 14, 2009
did the pen pitch well or not!!!?!?!
Finally!
hk47 - May 14, 2009
Hula Dula extra innings rula
Was awesome, but Mathis won the game today, and Bulger managed to not lose. Co-Panthers perhaps?
halofolife - May 14, 2009
Mathis is the emotional vote
Had you guys waited until tomorrow, you’d realize the Hula Dula is the Panther Tru-a!
Tru-a?
Yeah I struggle.
Jay Cal - May 14, 2009
I gotta give it to my boy Mathis
Called a great game (14 K’s), made a good borderline great play in the top of the 12th, and had the game winning hit.
Seik1177 - May 14, 2009
Gotta go with Mathis
Game winning hit and drove in the go ahead run in the 7th
Epic Dean - May 14, 2009
ladybug - May 14, 2009
Results up
Yesterday’s too
scottnak - May 14, 2009
Yea, I'm the only one not to get a point yesterday!
I so rock.
Not.
WiHaloFan - May 14, 2009
My first 3!!!!
It’s about time…. Soon, I shall climb to the top and I shall CRUSH YOU ALL!!!!!!!
[laughter type="maniacal-mad-scientist]
BWAHAHAHAHHA!!! HAH HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
[/laughter]
red floyd - May 14, 2009
grats
PGP is gonna end up looking pretty ugly at the end, i forecast myself dropping 25 spots at the rate im tanking
teopeht - May 14, 2009
If you're not in the top twenty by now............well you just are'nt.
44FAN - May 14, 2009
hey scott
i didn’t get any points, and i was the first to turn in my picks.. any idea what happened?
b0rd3rline - May 15, 2009
I watched this in a bar with nothing but frat-boy Sux fans...
Felt damn good to walk out of there after four ice-teas and a near heartattack.
BryanHarvey'sMoustache - May 14, 2009
Figures they'd win it the instant I look away from the computer.
GO HALOS!!!!!!!!!
moosemastr - May 14, 2009
Nice win!
mjhsieh - May 14, 2009
Jar Jar Shields
Mayheminthehood - May 14, 2009
Maxie big
The blown holds, leads and save opportunities.
halofolife - May 14, 2009
Extinct?
44FAN - May 14, 2009
Darren Oliver
I voted for Mathis, but Oliver’s 5K in 2 innings deserves at least to be considered for Panther, He whiffed the entire middle of their order. Darren Oliver!
RallyMonkey5 - May 14, 2009
I agree.......
and had the game ended in 9 I would have voted for him.
norcaliangelsfan - May 14, 2009
I was gonna say that
Write in vote for D.O. is his era below 1.00 yet? Can we. How long would he have to pittch like this to become our closer?
SFV88 - May 14, 2009
I agree with that little guy named Dustin...
3rd Echelon - May 14, 2009
Older Sox fans...
…were less drunk than the young guys usually are, but they were just as obnoxious.
They bitched about every call that didn’t go their way.
They cussed out their players if they didn’t do what they expected.
One guy was so upset Francona brought in Okajima, he stormed out of the stadium, throwing F-bombs all the way.
I guess you can sober up but you can’t stop being an A-Hole.
raskul - May 15, 2009
those are called MASS-HOLES
Downing Rules - May 15, 2009
Jeff Mathis
Lets not forget the fact that if Rivera had not singled first then the pinch runner, who knows what might have happened. So I give Rivera credit for starting the sequence of events.
Good Job Angels
roadflea - May 17, 2009
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