Final Score in Los Angeles of Anaheim: Mariners 5, Angels 2
(Rev Halofan Reporting): Jason Vargas turned out to be something the Mets sure could use, but he is a Mariner now and pitched better than Felix Hernandez, Jarrod Washburn or Erick Bedard. Who is the other Mariner Pitcher he pitched better than? I mean the other TEN pitchers from Seattle. Seattle pitchers have been the watermelon seeds of major league baseball: unwanted, unusable, in the way and they clog up your dishwasher of more than three of them appear in the game or your drain.
But Jason Vargas was a Met, explaining why he was able to pitch so well despite wearing the pitching kryptonite that is a Mariners jersey.
Meanwhile, Juan Rivera can fly and hit homers and John Lackey can give up 3 runs in an inning of infield singles and falls behind Matt Palmer on the team's depth chart in the process. Vlad and Napoli look fat and lost.
Anything else? Oh yeah, hey everybody, Texas took a double header from the Athletics (Oakland, the team Rob Neyer said would win the AL West and who currently have the worst record in the American League), so we are now 4.5 games behind the Rangers. Right where we were when the Rangers swept us.
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I blame Howie......
since I cant blame Aybar…..
norcaliangelsfan - May 29, 2009
I don't even know who to blame...
how sad is that?
I blame Hatcher for that BS gameplan vs the soft tossing lefty!
K3YEROUT - May 29, 2009
44FAN - May 29, 2009
dude,
i hope you are married or have a girlfriend
Funke5ive - May 29, 2009
Jeff would never spell Russel BRanyan's name wrong
Maybe someone close to him who likes this team will comment about the choice of undies.
Rev Halofan - May 30, 2009
I Blame Lackey for not throwing at Ichiro...
Oh, and the fact Quinlan was not in the line up.
Funke5ive - May 29, 2009
I blame Lackey
he gave up the runs. I have know idea how all those little hits turned into doubles for Seattle.
angelsfan777 - May 29, 2009
LET'S SHOW THIS TO ICHIRO
vlad IS my man - May 29, 2009
Dude
I have throw ups in that tunnel.
TKO
Funke5ive - May 29, 2009
Glad I missed this one
stolenbases - May 29, 2009
Dude!
Funke5ive - May 29, 2009
Juan Rivera robbed a homer
thats freaking amazing.
that being said, what the hell happened to Mike Napoli?! i think there’s something wrong with his stance or something… he hasn’t had a hit in a long time.
hey someone good with stats – how many times has a player hit a homer and robbed a homer in the same game? is that common?
howiestheman - May 29, 2009
Hello, Napoli has ALWAYS been streaky as hell
scareduck - May 29, 2009
yeah
but good lord… this is no bueno
howiestheman - May 29, 2009
I guess they don't do any scouting in the minor leagues.
I can’t come up with anything else to explain Howie Kendrick.
The guy hits .370 or something like that every year in every level of the minors.
He comes up to the big show, and after everyone sees his first few hundred AB’s, they learn to throw him breaking stuff away. Not exactly rocket science.
I’m sick of watching it. Nevertheless I don’t understand what the scouting reports are like in the minors; perhaps they simply don’t exist.
goodvibe61 - May 30, 2009
He did hit .300 for his first 1000 major league at bats
Sure, you could still get him out on curveballs away, but he’d hit enough of the other stuff to compensate. No more.
mattwelch - May 30, 2009
Howie sucks.
Napoli needs to get it together. He is ice fuckin cold.
Lackey is just decreasing his value making it more affordable to keep him. Good thing or bad thing, who knows…Probably a good thing though.
Rivera was sick tonight, but that throw home on Branyon for the fourth run was a joke. I mean come on. Throw it like you got a pair man.
TheAngelsAngels - May 30, 2009
I've taken the liberty of compiling pregame guesses results for Friday's game....
….although they are obviously unofficial and subject to adjustment (like for not posting in the comments)
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=rIOS4R_O1QmyKMe5Bjf0EDw&single=true&gid=0&output=html
All Hail Erstad - May 30, 2009
Trade Guerrero
for Strassburg.
ttsec - May 30, 2009
Kendrick is a disgrace
I’m tired of hearing about how he’s a “future batting champion”. It’s not gonna happen. Batting champs can hit curveballs.
KingF15h - May 30, 2009
Things are NOT looking up
we have NO more excuses left
Everyone’s back, and the only difference is that Vlad will be more solid. But, ……..
vlad IS my man - May 30, 2009
Lackey is lacking this year and he knows it. You can see Big John on edge. Juan Rivera and Kendry Morales are proving themselves to be two VERY valuable additions to our line-up and important pieces to our future puzzle. Our CURRENT core pieces need to start producing, tho.
firebird81 - May 30, 2009
I am sad
I want the Angels to get it together.
Brody - May 30, 2009
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