Final Score in Los Angeles of Anaheim: Rangers 8, Angels 5
Relegated to Designated Hitter when he wasn't on the Disabled List this season, Angel Right Fielder Vladimir Guerrero showed why he is a DH, twisting his knee awkwardly fielding an easy single hit right to him. He was removed from the game immediately. The official prognosis is a strained muscle behind his right knee according to FSN West's drooling pervert/postgame announcer Bill MacDonald. Thank you Montreal concrete turf. To think that Jim Rice played in a little league park and got into the Hall of Fame and Andre Dawson was more dominant in Montreal and all it got him was a limp and ignored after the applause faded.
Vladimir Guerrero will likely be listed as Day-to-Day and that popped out of this stream of consciousness monologue before I even bothered checking with my sources (aka: The Team Website).
John Lackey put two idiots on with two outs in the 5th in a game he was cruisin' thru effortlessly. All of a sudden he hangs a pitch on a tee to Andruw Jones and bammo the score is tied. Then a hit a walk, something else, a base-clearing double and bam-bammo, the Angels are back in a tie for 1st place.
So it is 6-3 but we push and make it 6-4 and then Bobby Abreu strikes out with the bases loaded. The next inning Mike Napoli flies out with the bases loaded and two outs, so the Angels were in this stinker of a game. No word on whether any of them attended Michael Jackson's funeral at the Staples Center or whether mentioning that in a post will yield me 500,000 surch-injun hits between now and tomorrow morning.
Basically, Lackey walked the tightrope and nibbled too long before it snapped out of precise alignment in our favor. Then we could not come thru with El Clutcho and the game ended and we play Texas again tomorrow.
The awesome Juan Rivera hit two solo homers in the game.
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How do you give up 6 runs with 2 outs??????
chairmanofthebar - July 7, 2009
Which Lackey and Santana will show up is now a mystery.
HALO N BRIMSTONE - July 7, 2009
Think this tranny knows Eddie Murphy?
PieceOfAase - July 8, 2009
EXACTLY.
BryanHarvey'sMoustache - July 7, 2009
5th Inning
devildogamp - July 7, 2009
Hopefully the Angels score 15 runs tomorrow
With Santana injured version 2009 pitching
stolenbases - July 7, 2009
Scotty G - July 7, 2009
The iPhone always worked.
hauldog - July 8, 2009
If you used the full site version, yes.
The change made recently was on the SBNation side to the mobile site version, not anything to do with the client side. If you accessed the sites using the mobile URL, the pages did not include a post button.
Stirrups - July 8, 2009
My Samsung Upstage has always worked too........but I had to download OperaMini!
acuda27 - July 8, 2009
Where's Lackey?
Big John has looked like an amateur thus far, poor guy!
HALO N BRIMSTONE - July 7, 2009
On the bright side
His contract price should be going down
stolenbases - July 7, 2009
That was my first thought.
BrentSchmidt - July 7, 2009
Just when things are kinda lookin up
Vlad gets injured and the pitching staff is breaking down
JoseGuillenSux - July 7, 2009
ShelLACKEY'd
Downing Rules - July 7, 2009
But Juan is still tearin it up
good for him
JoseGuillenSux - July 7, 2009
Injured Vlad means Napoli gets to DH and Mathis goes behind the plate...
not the end of the world.
BryanHarvey'sMoustache - July 7, 2009
Looks like Lackey is going to win big in the BOTG vote
stolenbases - July 7, 2009
I don't think I've ever seen him implode like that.
Yeah, he’s had bad outings, but I’ve never seen him cruising and then go over the cliff.
red floyd - July 8, 2009
You missed many games, then, because IIRC, he used to always have "one bad inning" ...
You must not remember him from 2002, 3 and 4!
7/20/02: http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ANA/ANA200207200.shtml (3-run 1st)
9/11/02: http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ANA/ANA200209110.shtml (4-run inning)
9/21/02: http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SEA/SEA200209210.shtml (6-run inning)
3/4/03: http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ANA/ANA200304220.shtml (consecutive 3-run/4-run inns)
7/20/03: http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BAL/BAL200307200.shtml (5-run inning)
8/5/03: http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BOS/BOS200308050.shtml (8-run inning)
4/10/04: http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/TEX/TEX200404100.shtml (4-run 1st)
4/15/04: http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ANA/ANA200404150.shtml (5-run inning)
5/30/04: http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHA/CHA200405300.shtml (3-run 1st 4-run 2nd innings)
8/31/04: http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BOS/BOS200408310.shtml (4-run 1st)
Sheesh… we went through some TERRIBLE times with Lackey in 2003 to 2005. Looking at his
game logs is making me cringe.
Downing Rules - July 8, 2009
correction: the game listed as 3/4/03 is actually 4/22/03.
Downing Rules - July 8, 2009
I always close my eyes and cringe when Lackey pitches any inning that begins with the number "5".
Stirrups - July 8, 2009
My bad.
I should have said “since 2005”
red floyd - July 9, 2009
No sweat, I just wanted to see those implosions up there in link-format to soothe me when Lackey walks this off-season.
Downing Rules - July 9, 2009
Incidentally
I don’t count 7/20/02, 4/10/04, 5/30/04, or 8/31/04 as “implosions”. He started out bad there. I was talking about cruising for several innings, and all of a sudden… BOOM!
7/20/02 also gets treated with kid gloves, as it was his rookie season.
red floyd - July 9, 2009
Incidentally also:
IMHO…he gets a pass for ALL OF THIS MESS based on this box score alone:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ANA/ANA200210270.shtml
Downing Rules - July 9, 2009
Rec'd
red floyd - July 10, 2009
You got me on that technicality. The fact remains that he has shit the bed on NUMEROUS occasions. Just not this far into the game after tossing up zeros for so many consecutive.
Downing Rules - July 9, 2009
Juancho Rivera is awesome
highlandhalo - July 7, 2009
Lackey
1st inning Fastball avg speed: 93.9
2nd: 92.8
3rd: 92.6
4th: 92.125
5th: (the first three pitches are missing from GD) 92
No real velocity drop, however he starts relying more and more on his breaking balls, which could explain some of his problems
Figgi4life - July 7, 2009
His breaking balls
Were near unhittable until he got a couple of them up. And by up, I mean up only a little. I was resigned to a Rangers’ loss until that inning.
Ed Coffin - July 8, 2009
I was a that game
it was great until the 5th inning then it was just down hill from there.
Seeing Vlad get hurt sucked, if he is out for a while thats gonna be a huge blow to the offense, i hope he bounces back soon.
Also i want to give big props to Juan Rivera for hitting 2 home runs and not giving up in the ninth inning down by 4 runs with 2 outs. Juan went up in my book for the way he played tonight.
dmoney2741 - July 7, 2009
I believe he's
day-to-day
Figgi4life - July 7, 2009
So you want ace money, eh Lackey?
The way you’re going, you’ll be lucky to get Dunn/Abreu $$. Another lackluster game.
PieceOfAase - July 8, 2009
Pitching, pitching:
My Kingdom for some pitching.
vladtheimpaler - July 8, 2009
Vlad likes to complain about being a DH
so they let him play the field and look what happens. You need to learn Vladdy, you’re an old man. You can’t run anymore
KingF15h - July 8, 2009
True,though in all fairness can’t blame a competitor for wanting to go out there..He made a few nice catches,but when he got hurt I was mad as heck and wondering why they had him out there in the first place..He is your DH for the year..He is lucky to be back at all after that type of injury.. Hopefully they will learn that he is no more then a great DH..
As for Naps DH, I am not sure you DH your back up catcher..If Vlad has to go to DL,maybe they call up a catcher and DH Naps..
Let hope Vlad is back in a few days.
raven191 - July 8, 2009
2003 - 2004 John came to pitch
It was his vintage one big inning
hauldog - July 8, 2009
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