Final Score in Missouri: Los Angeles Angels of Adventureland: 2 ... Kansas City Royals: 1
Practically begging the Royals to take the game, the Angels had only 3 hits on Friday Night in Kansas City. Jered Weaver was stellar on the mound, though, scattering all sorts of baserunners and managing to dominate KC batters. Weaver allowed 9 Hits but only 1 Earned Run, walked 1 and struck out 6. It added up to Little Weave's 14th victory of 2009.
The Angels got all their scoring down late when Vladimir Guerrero stepped up for the second time in the game with the bases loaded. He laced a double down the LF line, redeeming a weak 2-out grounder he had tapped with the bases juiced early in the contest.
If someone told you that the Angels only had 3 hits and their opponents had 11, without saying it was the Royals would you have believed they pulled off a win? Sure, yeah right. The bitter pills were being passed around on the board here tonight but I will tell you what - after 21 scoreless innings, who could blame Angel fans for peering at the wild card standings and wondering what our chances were after Texas overtakes us.
Put the panic on hold, the drain was plugged up a but tonight. Kevin Jepsen had a 2 K inning for the Hold and Brian Fuentes saw an awesome Erick Aybar to Maicer Izturis to K-Mo double play get the first two outs of the 9th inning, receiving his 38th save of the season when the final out was recorded.
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I might go with Vlad
but Weaver kept us in that game.
UCIHalo - September 4, 2009
PANTHER
ZuLong
Funke5ive - September 4, 2009 via mobile
Gotta give it to Jered persevering with almost no help at all.
TheOptimist - September 4, 2009
WIN
vlad IS my man - September 4, 2009
out hit by the KC Royals....
Scotty G - September 4, 2009
Aybar
red floyd - September 4, 2009
way to go weaver! aybar helped quite a bit, too. fuentes didn’t walk the bases loaded, so he deserves a nod.
daze - September 4, 2009
a win is a win is a win
norcaliangelsfan - September 4, 2009
a rec is a rec is a rec
;P
vlad IS my man - September 4, 2009
Rally Ribs
44FAN - September 4, 2009
no neck?
figgifig - September 4, 2009
Where's Aybar?
Slyintine - September 4, 2009
We have to keep it up
Take a look at Texas’ schedule for September.
This three hits bullshit won’t cut it.
Teixeira Who? - September 4, 2009
Greinke tomorrow won't be easy.
deejayelleseven - September 4, 2009
Honestly, how much harder could he be?
in the last 27 innings of baseball we have scored 5 runs.
TheOptimist - September 4, 2009
Halos hitters seem to do better against the "best" the AL has to offer
its when they’ve never seen a guy before that they run into problems.
norcaliangelsfan - September 4, 2009
Now THAT would be a fun research project.
Go through the game logs of rookie AL pitchers for the past 5 seasons and compare how they do during their first appearance against he Halos versus the balance of their year.
Stirrups - September 4, 2009
WTY
Vlad’s two ribbies don’t make up for his bases loaded fail in the 6th. Especially since Farnsworth had just walked Chupa on 4 pitches.
halofan4life - September 4, 2009
Up
scottnak - September 4, 2009
VLAD VLAD VLAD VLAD
When the Angels bats are flailing and failing, VLAD HAS TO BE THE PANTHER !!!
Dono Romantico - September 4, 2009
Vlad with tits! slightly bigger than Mice Tits's tits.
Fred Fredrix - September 4, 2009
Weaver
This win for him reminded me of a Nolan Ryan win back in the day.
rspencer - September 4, 2009
on the verge of 1-0 loss
a “true” Nolan Angel appearance.
Rev Halofan - September 4, 2009
Aybar
vladtheimpaler - September 5, 2009
Weaver did whats expected...
Vladdy hit when our offense was slumping.
SenorChuckles - September 5, 2009
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