Final Score in Los Angeles of Anaheim: Dodgers 1, Angels 2 ...
"I've had some hairy ones" - Angels closer Brian Fuentes to FSN airhead-with-a-mic Micahel Eaves after a crazy end to the game Wednesday night.
Fuentes may be the closer, but it was an alert Juan Rivera who saved the day with a great toss from LF on the most chaotic game ending play of the season for the Angels.
Let's recap a crazy bottom of the 9th that they will be talking about for a long time:
- B. Fuentes relieved K. Jepsen
- M. Kemp safe at first on shortstop B. Wood's throwing error
- R. Belliard hit for G. Anderson
- R. Belliard singled to center, M. Kemp to second
- R. Johnson ran for R. Belliard
- C. Blake struck out swinging
- M. Kemp picked off at third, pitcher to second
- R. Martin walked, R. Johnson to second
- J. Carroll hit for B. DeWitt
- J. Carroll singled to shallow left, R. Johnson to third, R. Martin to second, R. Martin out at second
On that final play, Halos Heaven commenter Robviously describes in detail what happened to end the game:
Jamey Carroll hits a bloop that Juan Rivera picks up on the bounce. The lead runner is heading home but Rivera throws it to second and Kendrick tags out the second runner before the lead runner reaches home. Game over. Angels win.
Pinerio gets the win, Fuentes gets the save, Kendrick and Hunter each had an RBI, Frandsen and Napoli each had a run scored, but in the bottom of the 9th, Juan Rivera threw a bullet to Howie, who tagged the runner at 2B for the 3rd out of the inning before the tying run had crossed the plate.
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My Panther goes to Russell Martin
Thanks for being stupid and handing us a victory. LOL.
Halowood - June 23, 2010
With the assist to Kemp
Brody - June 23, 2010
reed johnson and manny get half credit
daze - June 23, 2010
let's not forget Furcal's crappy fielding too*
Quad Fin Rider - June 23, 2010
That was some crazy shit
Great win though!
Brody - June 23, 2010
Juan the Doystroyer!!!
Commander_Nate - June 23, 2010
5 straight over the Dodgers
Let’s get the double sweep!
yeswecan - June 23, 2010
Man, you are bloodthirsty.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
opiejeanne - June 23, 2010
Suck it lookout landing
I’m still an Angels fan
RexTookMyStash - June 23, 2010
They would have been overjoyed to have you I'm sure
ryanfea - June 23, 2010
Yeah
I would have been able to give them the inside scoop on you guys
RexTookMyStash - June 23, 2010
Oh, like what?
That we’re polite and finish all our vegetables?
opiejeanne - June 23, 2010
I don't like veggies.
red floyd - June 24, 2010
"Seattle's Best"
Keep it classy, Starbucks.
Zoe Necrosis - June 24, 2010
ANGST
They has it.
moosemastr - June 24, 2010
That's horrible...
Wow. I can boo my own team’s players, but I would never go that far. Yikes.
Downing Rules - June 25, 2010
that was the weirdest ending to a game i've ever seen.
did martin get tossed after the game was over?
river-z - June 23, 2010
Can you get kicked out of a game that's over?
RexTookMyStash - June 23, 2010
you can get fined
Balls and Strikes - June 23, 2010
The ump at 2nd has no idea what's happening behind him... whether the run scored or not.
So tossing him was his only option. Too bad it’s not like a Red Card and he has to sit out the next game or something.
Chone's Chonies - June 23, 2010
J Martin gave his helmet quite a bounce. I wonder what he said?
river-z - June 23, 2010
clearly an "f you"
mjhsieh - June 23, 2010
i think he said it to reed for not scoring
freakin’ hilarious. first kemps glare at manny, then martin’s f-bomb to reed.
SCHalo - June 23, 2010
Larry Bowa was going apeshit on Reed Johnson
You could tell he was screaming “Move your fucking ass!”
Quad Fin Rider - June 23, 2010
my dodger fan brother in law was at the game
He wont answer his phone while I try to rub it in. 5-0 against los dodgers
Balls and Strikes - June 23, 2010
haha
Leave him a rousing voicemail
RexTookMyStash - June 23, 2010
Contact play worked tonight
keep that in mind
yeswecan - June 23, 2010
If any of you have ever wondered why everyone thinks the Angels are extremely lucky, tonight is exactly why
Inkara1 - June 23, 2010
it is not luck
it is angels in the infield
DAD OF VLAD - June 23, 2010
Can a team be lucky..
…if they have Brian Fuentes as their closer?
Robviously - June 23, 2010
it's the only way to win when he is your closer.
river-z - June 23, 2010
hell yeah, he should have blown that game for us
Balls and Strikes - June 23, 2010
Having him as the closer and winning anyway would certainly be considered lucky
Inkara1 - June 23, 2010
You guys are finishing 2nd or 3rd either way
burn
RexTookMyStash - June 23, 2010
everybody knows the Scioscia contact play
if you make an error, it might be because you’re pressing because you know the runner is going.
yeswecan - June 23, 2010
You guys can't play the astros and mariners forever
You’re in our luck-filled cross hairs now so get ready
RexTookMyStash - June 23, 2010
Or the goddamn PIRATES
Caseys Kiss of Death - June 23, 2010
Wow! You are right!
Hey everybody! Let’s all draw conclusions from one game! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
XYZ123 - June 24, 2010
Correction. ONE PLAY.
XYZ123 - June 24, 2010
AT TODAYS SOCCER MATCH IN ANAHEIM
THE ANGELS won 2 – 1 over the Dodgers
DAD OF VLAD - June 23, 2010
oh yeah and that was "boring" because "soccer sucks"
yeswecan - June 23, 2010
the US match this moring was everything but boring
edge of my set all morning
DAD OF VLAD - June 23, 2010
me, too
yeswecan - June 23, 2010
I was at work and it was just crazy.
What a crazy day in sports.
Tennis: tied 59-59 in the 5th set
Soccer – USA wins in the 91st minute
Baseball – Angels win in a crazy top of the 9th.
angelsfan7 - June 23, 2010
i was late for work
because of the game
DAD OF VLAD - June 23, 2010
Me too.
Well, I can go in pretty much whenever I like, so I wasn’t really late … just later than I usually am.
AlanFalcon - June 23, 2010
that should be over "Les Dodgers"
Quad Fin Rider - June 23, 2010
The Doyers
red floyd - June 23, 2010
soccer sucks. baseball rules.
river-z - June 23, 2010
relpy error?
DAD OF VLAD - June 23, 2010
I don’t think soccer sucks.
Baseball is still my favorite but World Cup soccer is pretty exciting. I don’t think I’d watch MLS though but WC is fun cause it’s all about your country.
angelsfan7 - June 23, 2010
Plus it's a playoff atmosphere.
AlanFalcon - June 23, 2010
i will not go to a MLS game now
but i may watch the EPL when it is on ESPN this fall
DAD OF VLAD - June 23, 2010
Soccer sucks almost as much as that 'stache Fuentes is sporting.
river-z - June 23, 2010
dont knock what you cant grow
Fuentes off day————-“PORN STAR”
DAD OF VLAD - June 23, 2010
We got it the first time you said it, so give your eloquent analysis a rest
RexTookMyStash - June 23, 2010
0-0 ties are not a valid outcome for a sporting event.
river-z - June 23, 2010
Technically Possible in Football...
The Eagles tied the Bengals two season’s ago and ended up in the playoffs with a 9-6-1 record.
RedWalnut - June 23, 2010
Definitely
I hate ties of any type whether they be 0-0 or 5-5.
ryanfea - June 23, 2010
This part I agree with.
I tend to only watch hockey in the playoffs, for this reason.
AlanFalcon - June 23, 2010
0-0 is no longer a possible outcome in the NHL.
Once they brought in the shoot-out, games can’t end in ties at all. Although a 1-0 game that ended in a shootout would still be pretty lousy.
People need to remember that the World Cup is absolutely the best soccer you’ll ever see. Comparing today’s (very exciting) USA-Algeria game to regular season baseball in June doesn’t work.
Robviously - June 23, 2010
Today's Angels game
was better than any soccer game ever played in the history of mankind, including the one where I scored a goal when I was 8 years old and my coach gave me an orange slice and a capri sun while i rode home in mom’s plymouth voyager.
Caseys Kiss of Death - June 23, 2010
I could use a Capri Sun right now
ryanfea - June 23, 2010
Somehow I missed that change over the past several years...
As I said, I tend to only watch hockey in the playoffs. I’m glad to see them get rid of ties, even if a shootout doesn’t have quite the thrill of sudden death overtime… Given how long games potentially go during playoff overtime though, I can see why the league is reluctant to have that happen during the regular season.
AlanFalcon - June 23, 2010
If this is the best soccer I'll ever see
I’m glad the only soccer I watch is my daughters AYSO games.
Seik1177 - June 24, 2010
Reply button is your friend.
Otherwise you just look like a troll.
opiejeanne - June 23, 2010
wow
surprised by a good reply by you
DAD OF VLAD - June 23, 2010
Bite me.
opiejeanne - June 23, 2010
why is Texas getting to play teams like the Pirates. This is just stupid.
angelsfan7 - June 23, 2010
To give them a taste
Of what it feels like to win before running into a wall of superior opponents in the second half of the season
RedWalnut - June 23, 2010
I'm pretty sure I wouldn't mind us playing the Dodgers all week long right now.
but playing the pirates next would be nice.
river-z - June 23, 2010
the rangers are 13-5 against the AL west so far and 2-0 against the Angels
these are not rangers you knew and loved to face from years passed
Mike9 - June 23, 2010
11-5 against A's and M's
oooooooo quaking in my jordans here ooooooooooo
Rev Halofan - June 23, 2010
Angels are 13-6 against the A's and M's... that's basically the same winning percentage.
Inkara1 - June 23, 2010
This is True
However I see the Rangers haven’t had to play the Tigers, Twins, Red Sox, Yankees, Rays, etc.
So we will see how they stack up against them.
RedWalnut - June 23, 2010
they won 2 of 3 from rays, not sure about the others
Mike9 - June 23, 2010
A combined 5-11 against them
toss in the solid blue jays for good measure, and they’re a combined 6-16. Which is to say, they fucking suck.
Caseys Kiss of Death - June 23, 2010
Angels are 7-17 against them. I guess the two additional wins make all the difference.
Inkara1 - June 23, 2010
The Rangers have played all of those teams
2-2 vs Tigers
0-3 vs Twins
1-2 vs Red Sox
0-3 vs Yankees
2-1 vs Rays
Angels are:
2-5 vs Tigers
1-3 vs Twins
0-4 vs Red Sox
3-3 vs Yankees
1-2 vs Rays
That doesn’t tell us much.
Inkara1 - June 23, 2010
Go home, go to sleep.
Your presence is not welcome, and you’re bringing out more trolls.
AlanFalcon - June 23, 2010
It tells us that we've gotten more of our games against 'tough opponents' out of the way
and that most of our losses were earlier in the year when we were struggling at every turn…I doubt the same results come with the way we’ve played of late. Since we’ve always been a slow starting team, I don’t read a ton into those results.
Caseys Kiss of Death - June 23, 2010
Rangers can say the same re: how they're playing lately vs. how they played in Boston and New York
Inkara1 - June 23, 2010
And yet we still have eight more games against those guys out of the way than you
And “how you’ve played lately” has been against the jokes of the NL Central/East. You’ve been bottom-feeding. And that’s not anecdotal or biased…it’s statistical fact. You have the 27th ranked strength of schedule so far this season. We have the 7th. Deal with it.
Caseys Kiss of Death - June 23, 2010
Yeah... I call this the "taking care of business" part of the schedule
Isn’t taking care of business against inferior opponents what a good team is supposed to do?
Inkara1 - June 23, 2010
Talk is cheap.
We’ll see what happens.
opiejeanne - June 23, 2010
yes we will, i am just saying these are not the rangers of the last few years
these are more like the rangers of 1996 but with better pitching and more offense
Mike9 - June 23, 2010
Different year, same results
Texas will wilt in the summer heat while we win the division yet again.
Balls and Strikes - June 24, 2010
Ahhh the little Fanboy is trying to start talking history
Do we look like the Angels of 1996? No. Didn’t think so.
Stop acting like you’re the Yankees & have a track record of winning. You haven’t done shit yet. Come back & post when you’ve actually won a series or 2 in the playoffs.
Seik1177 - June 24, 2010
you wrote the book about good teams
Never known a great one so stick to what you know. Smart strategy.
Rev Halofan - June 23, 2010
Captain miss-the-point
we’ve moved a significant chunk more of our “difficult” schedule out of the way than you have, and are right behind you in the standings (in quite a similar position to last year, no less). all you’ve proven this year is the ability to beat the pirates. the deficiency in the standings for us right now can easily be chalked up to eight more games against the teams that have thus far raped you.
Caseys Kiss of Death - June 23, 2010
and raped you as well
Mike9 - June 23, 2010
How many times does the same point need to be made exactly
before people understand it?
This is an epic streak of fail. Keep it up, champ.
Caseys Kiss of Death - June 23, 2010
beware angels, the rangers are coming to your park very soon
be afraid, be very afraid as they will be armed with bats
Mike9 - June 23, 2010
Hahaha!
Eedjut.
opiejeanne - June 23, 2010
this is what you do when your team wins 10 in a row mid season?
R O F L
Remember to put your seatbelt on for your usual crash. Stop by HH and say hello when you’re sitting out of another ALDS.
clover_black - June 24, 2010
The Rangers still own bats in Chapter 11?
Won’t your creditors want them back?
Quad Fin Rider - June 24, 2010
cocaine/crack
Is a hell of a drug.
Funke5ive - June 24, 2010
Maybe you can explain to me how
the Rangers failed by trading Edinson Volquez for Josh Hamilton similarly to how you tried last year.
willamos2 - June 24, 2010
Y
Wally's World - June 23, 2010
Your a f-ing loser
Wally's World - June 23, 2010
Really?
You’ve won 10 games and we’re still all over your ass. Now don’t get excited Texan, I know you boys love corn holin’ each other but it’s just a figure of speech. Once your play actual baseball teams and you’re exposed for the posers that you are (and trust me, history suggests you are) it’s going to be a short drop and a sudden thud.
You guys were so good and “for real” last year and we beat you by 10 games. That’s not even close. Since you’re so good again and we’ve lost so much better make it only 5 games this year.
Clown.
Halowood - June 24, 2010
I don't remember loving to face them in the past.
They had a dildo of a pitcher named Padilla, to mention one.
opiejeanne - June 23, 2010
yes they are
talk to me after July is over. Rangers are NOT a 2nd half team. The summer heat just kills the pitching staff….EVERY year.
LosAngel - June 24, 2010
I don't think I ever want to hear Fuentes say "I've had some hairy ones" again
river-z - June 23, 2010
Made me think of John Holmes bragging
Rev Halofan - June 23, 2010
Lord.
lord.
opiejeanne - June 23, 2010
That game should have been over
If Wood didn’t throw like a pansy, Kemp would have been out. If Rivera knew how to play outfield, he would have caught that ball on the fly.
Still, crazy ending. The Angels certainly got the benefit of the calls. Mathis should have been out at first and I’m not sure Martin was out at second (although I didn’t see a good replay).
Gorbachav5 - June 23, 2010
close call
seems like ump did the “ball beat runner to bag” call but martin didn’t put up a stink about it. think he was more pissed at reed johnson.
SCHalo - June 23, 2010
Didn't put up a stink?
He pounded his helmet on the ground and got tossed from the game. It was very close. I’m just annoyed that it even came down to that since Rivera played that ball terribly.
Oh well, we got the W.
Gorbachav5 - June 23, 2010
Hey Rev
this piece of shit prick Inkara1 is trying/advocating stalking you personally over on LSB. Check his posting history…talking about your home and seeking you out in phone books/on Google maps over there.
Don’t know whether it’s more creepy or pathetic. You can decide.
Caseys Kiss of Death - June 23, 2010
Sounds like I might be banned for being bored and finding publicaly available information
All because I simply pointed out that the way tonight’s game ended is a perfect case study of why everyone else thinks the Angels are lucky.
I do love the name-calling, though. Making us California residents look good, there.
Inkara1 - June 23, 2010
Stuff like this?
“I found his house on the Google Maps street view feature
It’s ghetto even by LA standards. It’s also got some trees in front of it that would conceal a lot of things. The Taurus he drove in the video he did for FS West confirms that it’s the right place.”
opiejeanne - June 23, 2010
what a fucking loser, even by LSB standards
Quad Fin Rider - June 23, 2010
Pretty sad.
opiejeanne - June 23, 2010
For what reason could you possibly need that information
Go away jackass
ryanfea - June 23, 2010
Truthfully
I got bored, was google image searching for something else entirely, it took me to a post Rev made about a trip to Dodgers stadium. In it, he mentioned living a mile from the Farmer John plant. Put that together with other things I’d seen him post about what things are like in his hood and I got curious as to what the neighborhood looked like.
Inkara1 - June 23, 2010
And then was so overwhelmed by the amazingness of your curious discovery
of what an internet stranger’s house looked like that you had to share your astounding discovery with the internet world!
Caseys Kiss of Death - June 23, 2010
And you have a face that looks like it belongs on Megans Law
am I close?
clover_black - June 24, 2010
LOL
What a great comment! I am laughing so hard right now after that one!
stolenbases - June 24, 2010
Hey you're fat and stupid looking
Look what I discovered on the internet.
Halowood - June 24, 2010
Does Chuck E Cheese
Still need to get real?
Zoe Necrosis - June 24, 2010
Truthfully
You obsessed on someone you hate, and you thought that sharing his personal information would make you seem big and important in a community you desperately need approval from in order to prop up your fragile ego.
Next time your curiosity is so overwhelming, why don’t you use it to find out how the Rangers can make the playoffs sometime this century? I’m sure your fellow LSB members would gladly heap praise upon you if you could solve that mystery.
Here’s a hint: Your franchise sucks, and the evidence shows it’s hell-bent on proving it year after year.
yeswecan - June 24, 2010
Lucky? Really?
The Angels during the last 1046 regular season games have a record of 608-438.
That’s a winning percentage of .581 or 94 wins a season.
Repeat: a .581 winning percentage for over ONE THOUSAND GAMES.
stat source
Fan Since 1981 - June 24, 2010
You live in fucking texas. Talk about ghetto. go screw a bull.
Balls and Strikes - June 24, 2010
I think he's in Fresno
Epic Dean - June 24, 2010
Even worse
Halowood - June 24, 2010
Raisins.
opiejeanne - June 24, 2010
Were you raised on sour milk?
SenorChuckles - June 24, 2010
Hahaha
I like how you say “finding publicly available information” as if that has anything in the slightest bit to do with my point. Or are you naive enough to not understand why digging up information on random strangers on the internet (in order to mock the state of their home, no less…how sad) and discussing it in detail might be viewed as just a little creepy.
I’m not a Californian by birth, nor do I care for what reputation you’re stupid enough to extrapolate from me onto other people from the state I’m not from. Get a clue.
Caseys Kiss of Death - June 23, 2010
I'm a public figure, I am used to this shit
My profile in the art world has caused much bigger stinks. Actually, living near Farmer John is the biggest stink of all when the wind blows toward the coast instead of from it.
But thanks to the concerned HH crew for pointing out his actions, the authorities will be notified – i appreciate the diligent documentation of his sociopathy, especially in getting him to confess with grand excuses of boredom.
Rev Halofan - June 23, 2010
I heard about the accident in Vernon the other day.
Not buying ANY ground meat for a while, thinking of becoming a vegetarian because of that.
opiejeanne - June 23, 2010
My wife has been vegetarian since she was a kid
I ate a jack in the box and got pretty sick this last week. I am thinking I am going to join her.
Balls and Strikes - June 24, 2010
For those of us who missed the news
Details? Not gory ones, though.
red floyd - June 24, 2010
Dude fell into a meat grinder
that’s all you need to know.
Caseys Kiss of Death - June 24, 2010
Luckily, when I buy ground meat, it's usually ground at the butcher's. Either the butcher shop or the in-store butcher.
Not prepackaged.
red floyd - June 24, 2010
Lost both legs, they had to dismantle the machine to free him, took like two hours.
44FAN - June 24, 2010
Maybe the next time he's "bored"
and has a day off work, he’ll stroll by your house with a telephoto lens and snap shots of you through your window as he documents your various activities of the day into a laptop, before completing your daily itinerary that he saves in triplicate as he follows you around to the local grocer, discovers where you get your haircut, scoops out your PIN at a local ATM, and scribbles down your preferred brand of ketchup (or is it catsup?)…all that good shit. But you know, it’s just out of boredom.
Caseys Kiss of Death - June 23, 2010
follow me around all day
and he would die of boredom.
Rev Halofan - June 23, 2010
Yeah, probably.
but it’s a little creepy to those of us who aren’t so used to it.
opiejeanne - June 23, 2010
Rule of thumb about stalkers:
The ones who hate you are harmless. The ones who like you are deadly.
Rev Halofan - June 23, 2010
Yeah, I can see that.
my youngest has had a couple that were in love with her. One didn’t know a thing about her, but sent her letters about how he couldn’t wait for his family to meet her, his parents, his kids by several ex-wives. Sounded like he was going to kidnap her. Very scary.
opiejeanne - June 23, 2010
so a love/hate would be???
SenorChuckles - June 24, 2010
Farmer John plant sounds delicious
in theory.
clover_black - June 24, 2010
It's been too long...
The stench of FJ from the Vernon train yards.
Ahhhhh…That brings me back.
Funke5ive - June 24, 2010
Recap
-B. Fuentes relieves K. Jepsen
And it all went downhill from there.
deepdrive - June 23, 2010
Then some crazy shit happened
ryanfea - June 23, 2010
-B. Fuentes relieves K. Jepsen
(SCENE MISSING)
-…Martin out at second. Three outs.
Caseys Kiss of Death - June 23, 2010
Exactly.
I was following on Gameday Mobile and it said:
And I was like "Eat a steak knife, Fuentes!"And then, with Jamey Carroll up, it said:
And I was all "WIN!"
And then it said:
And I was like "Say wut??"
LAASurfin - June 24, 2010
SAME HERE
I was like “I need to see that highlight…. suck it Carlos, Angels beat the Doyers again!” While I was at work watching gameday.
OCangels - June 24, 2010
Just got back from some postgame shenanigans.
So let me just say that when the ball dropped for the hit, I bent over and covered my face in shame. Then, I looked up again to see the Angels sprinting out of the dugout to give themselves their post-game fives. I had to process what that meant for a second, then I realized that Martin had been gunned down. Needless to say I went berserk, and my friends (who were mostly pro-Dodger, save a few neutrals) went sullen and silent. What an absolutely unbelievable game. Not a great game, mind you, due to all the miscues and such, but man, if that wasn’t entertaining, nothing is.
moosemastr - June 24, 2010
Oh, and props to Joel for holding the Dodgers to 1 run. They had their chances, let me tell you. I loved Jepsen today, too. Everything was pretty damn good today except maybe the offense and DEFINITELY Brian Fuentes.
moosemastr - June 24, 2010
On the gripping hand,
Fuentes picked up BWood, geting Kemp at 2nd, to make up for the E6.
And ball 4 to Martin should have been strike 3.
red floyd - June 24, 2010
Voted Pineiro for panther
Great throw by Rivera, but he shouldn’t have even had to make it. That fly ball by Carroll was catchable, Rivera got a bad break on it, and then ran too slowly to catch it. We’ve seen that before.
I forget who mentioned it the other night, but something like “don’t worry about the Angels choking, because the Dodgers will choke worse” Perfectly describes the 9th inning.
RallyMonkey5 - June 24, 2010
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