Angels waste another good outing from Haren - The Orange County Register
Choo's single spoiled another solid outing from Angels starter Dan Haren, who allowed just two runs in 7.0 innings. Haren's only trouble came in the sixth inning when he walked three batters in a row, including a four-pitch walk to Luis Vilbuena with the bases loaded. "I don't think I've ever done it," Haren said. Haren's had 26 starts this season with less than three walks, making the sixth inning an oddity. The Angels have now lost four straight at home to teams that are a combined 58 games under .500.
Anyone else think it was weird how Haren just suddenly forgot where the strike zone was? Especially after getting the first two outs and having Duncan 0-2 before issuing his first walk of the inning. Could it be a case of a pitcher over-thinking or trying to be too fine since the offense has been non-existent in his other starts? Whatever. Here are a couple highlights: Mathis picks off the go-ahead run at first - Jeff Mathis fires down to first base to catch Asdrubal Cabrera straying from the bag in a tie ballgame (and thus earning himself more playing time), Hunter goes deep to tie it in the sixth - Torii Hunter ties the game at 2 with an opposite-field home run in the bottom of the sixth
Indians-Angels Preview - FOX Sports on MSN
Looking to prevent their first five-game losing streak at Angel Stadium since April 28-May 2, 2006, Los Angeles will give the ball to right-hander Trevor Bell (2-4, 4.85 ERA). The converted reliever allowed two runs in Wednesday's 4-2 victory at Seattle, winning his first game since May 10. Bell, 1-1 with a 2.77 ERA in his last two starts, gave up a career high-tying nine hits in six innings, but held the Mariners to 1 for 9 with runners in scoring position.The Indians, who are going for their first series win on the road since July 30-Aug. 1 against Toronto - and their first in Anaheim since 2005 - will look for another solid start from Justin Masterson (5-12, 5.04). The right-hander had one of his best outings of the season in Tuesday's 4-3 loss to the White Sox, surrendering one run and four hits in 7 2-3 innings.
Wood working to regain form - The Orange County Register
Brandon Wood has blisters on his fingers. Wood, the Angels' starting third baseman when the season began, has started just seven times in the past 33 games with a total of 15 at-bats since the All-Star break. The blisters are from the daily sessions with hitting coach Mickey Hatcher — in the batting cages, on the field and with soft-toss. "We're trying to find his swing, trying to get him to teach himself about his swing," Hatcher said. "And we're doing it. He's made a lot of progress. I really think when he gets back out there in games, he's going to have a much better feel for his swing."
Recently on Halos Heaven, there was a discussion as to what exactly a major league hitting coach actually does. The above linked article, although it's a few days old, kind of answers that questions, at least in regards to how Hatcher works with the younger guys.
Padres snap 10-game skid, beat Dodgers 4-2 - Yahoo! Sports
"You would never have thought that winning one game would be so important," said Mike Adams(notes), who won in relief. "That’s the biggest win that we’ve had maybe all year. I’m kind of lost for words on it. The past 10 days, nothing went our way. We couldn’t catch a break. To come out tonight and get that win out of the way, hopefully that changes the tide a little bit and we’ll get on a little roll now." The Padres kept their one-game division lead over the San Francisco Giants, who won 2-0 in 11 innings at Arizona. The losing streak was San Diego’s longest since a franchise-record 13-game slide in May 1994. The free-fall trimmed 5 1/2 games from the Padres’ lead and dropped them from having the best record in the NL to the third-best.
The Padres making the playoffs might be the only bright spot for Southern Cal baseball fans...if they can hold on.
Who Really Made The Call? - Bugs & Cranks
As you can clearly see, Marquez is not looking in the direction of Young and Anderson when they touched, yet the video shows him stepping into view calling Young out. He then made a shoving gesture to Young which I read as him saying the coach physically assisted.
I kind of feel bad for the Rangers on this play (no, not really), as it looks like they got hosed (no, not really). The author of the above linked post does ask a good question, if you watch this video (Twins win the game on disputed final out - The Twins win it 6-5 as Michael Young is called out for incidental contact with the third-base coach, the final out of the ninth), at about the 50 second mark the umpire isn't even looking in the right direction to make that call.
Angels " Win Probability " Monday, September 06, 2010 - FanGraphs Baseball
Elimination number - 16:
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| Texas | 75 | 62 | .547 | - | |||||||
| Oakland | 68 | 69 | .496 | 7 | |||||||
| L.A. Angels | 66 | 72 | .478 | 9½ | |||||||
| Seattle | 54 | 84 | .391 | 21½ | |||||||
September 7 - BR Bullpen
Events, births and deaths that occurred on September 7.
1974 - During a 3 - 1 win over the Chicago White Sox, California's Nolan Ryan has a fastball clocked at 100.8 miles per hour - the fastest pitch ever recorded.
1997 - The major league mark for the most combined strikeouts in a game is tied when 33 players whiff during a fifteen-inning 5 - 4 Angel victory over the Tigers.
Happy b-day:
1946 - Joe Rudi, outfielder; All-Star
Rodney and his deceptive 3.97 ERA:
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How is that called out on M. Young scored?
I mean in a score card
HalosBiggestFan - September 7, 2010 via mobile
3BC Unassisted lol
angelskid2210 - September 7, 2010
What is the difference between here and the high five rounding third on an HR?
Is it because the ball is still in play?
red floyd - September 7, 2010
* here = M Young play
red floyd - September 7, 2010
Rule 7.09(h)
Suboptimal - September 7, 2010
Bad call by the umpire.
The intent of the rule is to eliminate 3rd (and first) base coaches from physically intervening in a base-runners decisions. That did not happen. Anderson was pointing toward 3B for Young to return after Young over-ran the bag. Young turned to return and in doing so, touched Anderson’s hand.
Meanwhile, the umpire was looking toward 2nd base, when their hands touched. At best, he saw the touch of hands from the corner of his eye, not the best eye position in making a game-ending call. The umpire made his case even worse when he visually signaled Anderson “pushed” Young back to toward the bag.
This is worse than the non-calls we have seen this year, a play where the umpire inserted himself into a game where it wasn’t required (though not as bad as Jim Joyce robbing Gallaraga of a perfect game).
sothball - September 7, 2010
Meh
I agree insofar as I don’t think the 3B coach actually helped Young get back to the base [i.e., he did not assist Young in any meaningful way], but the rule is the rule. I’ve seen this called before, though usually in much more extreme cases (where the coach really does physically interfere with and assist the runner). At the moment of contact, though, it does appear that the ump is watching (our view is partially obstructed by the catcher I guess in one of the shots), and he made the call immediately and emphatically, so he obviously saw it happen.
jjackflash - September 7, 2010
I'm not going to argue the point too much since it happened to the Rangers.
The video capture at “Bugs and Cranks” is fuzzy, and it’s difficult to know for sure where the umpire is looking. So, I started/stopped this slo-mo video about 8 times from .21 seconds to .25 seconds;
- At .21seconds, the coach and player touch. At approximately the same time, the umpire appears to be moving his head from 3B to 2B area.
- At .22 seconds, the umpire is clearly looking at 2B, and is also moving toward Anderson.
- At .23 seconds, he rotates his head back to Anderson.
- At .24 seconds, Young obscures the view of the umpire as he is returning to the base, but it’s clear at this point the umpire believes Anderson assisted Young and so…
- At .25 seconds he begins to point to where they touched and makes the call of “out”.
The umpire’s reaction at .15 seconds – indicating that Anderson pushed Young – adds to my belief that he didn’t clearly see the play. He thought he saw a push by Anderson,but he couldn’t have because it didn’t occur. This was a judgment call, so at a minimum, it would have been better to have consulted with the other 3 umpires.
I think all of us just want to see the umps make the correct call. He didn’t. On review, there is no way Anderson’s touch of Young, “…physically assist(ed) him in returning to or leaving third base…”. It was all the more egregious in that it ended a game in which the Rangers were rallying.
If it had happened to the Angels, there’s an army oh HHer’s that would be calling for the umpire to be banished to the Siberian Baseball League. Or worse.
sothball - September 7, 2010
Replay needs to be introduced widely
for absolutely everything besides balls and strikes immediately.
The home plate umpire needs to be removed from all games and replaced by a super accurate robot.
I want these games to be free of bullshit Egos.
PhiSlamma - September 7, 2010
OH NO IT WILL MAKE THE GAME LONGER WHINE WHINE WHINE
You know what else makes the game longer? The ump blowing a call so the manager has to come out and argue. Then get kicked out. That takes as much time as a red flag being thrown, a booth ON FIELD being reviewed, (not under the stadium, that is just retarded) and making the CORRECT call.
PhiSlamma - September 7, 2010
I like the robot home plate ump, as long as it has a laser that it shoots at players who argue balls and strikes.
~MMP~ - September 7, 2010
Well obviously
how else can it be effective?
PhiSlamma - September 7, 2010
I think this might be my first double post ever.
And also, if there is that kind of technology, it has to be monitored straight on, and censors at the plate itself so it can know not only where the pitch ended up but where it crossed the plate. Which I think is lost on todays umpires.
PhiSlamma - September 7, 2010
Well obviously
how else can it be effective?
PhiSlamma - September 7, 2010
But how would you get a frickin' shark out there behind the plate?
It could easily cost… ONE MILLION DOLLARS [pinky-to-mouth]
red floyd - September 7, 2010
I watched
the video as well. The really critical time is at 18-20 seconds. That’s where the shot is looking up the 3B line. The runner coming home blocks the umpire, so we can’t see where his head is pointed. But you can see that his right arm is at his side, and his right knee facing forward (towards home), so his body is pretty much looking straight ahead of him. The scoring baserunner’s leg and body block the rest of the umpire. He does turn his head away as you indicate, but I’ll assume that the ump has the same peripheral vision that I do, and I know that from that angle, I’d be able to see it.
But I agree that he didn’t really “assist” Young in any material way- i.e., the result would have been exactly the same without him being touched.
It’s obvious that he saw the contact. What’s questionable is his assessment/judgment that Anderson “assisted” Young.
However, if the word assist doesn’t carry its dictionary definition, but instead simply means “have some effect,” however immaterial (and naturally, it had some effect), then it was the right call.
jjackflash - September 7, 2010
I saw the play in real time several times on MLB Network
It isn’t important whether or not the coach put a bear hug on the player. The sort of contact he made with Young served to get Young’s attention and focus on returning to 3B.
It seems like nitpicking but the coach is not to touch the runner when the ball is in play. Period. He was extending his arm to direct Young to stop; whether Anderson overreached or Young impulsively reached out, I can’t tell. But the rule doesn’t address “accidental” or “incidental” contact; it talks about contact due to the coach assisting the runner on returning to the base, and that is precisely what Anderson was doing. He knew Hudson was going to throw behind Young (who couldn’t see Hudson and was clueless about) and the two men made contact as a result of Anderson trying to get Young’s attention, put his brakes on, and get him back to the bag before the throw.
It’s a bitch to lose that way, but no game ever comes down to a single play like that.
George Kaplan - September 7, 2010
When I watched the replay multiple times yesterday, I came away with a different take.
1) I can see where the umps head was pointing, but not where his eyes were pointed just prior and during. My belief is that the ump saw Anderson come out of the box, heard Anderson screaming something at Young (which we cannot hear), and kept Anderson in his peripheral visaion as he was prepping to track any throw. I cannot conclusively say that it is impossible for the ump to know what was happening between Anderson and Young. Ranger fans, of course, will see this a lot differently.
2) Listen to the audio when the play was run live, NOT during the video reviews. The Twins’ broadcast includes something very interesting, in real time, that aligns with my opinion. They make the comment ONE TIME, before they go into the “a rule is a rule” cop out. To wit: If Anderson had not jumped out and made contact, Young would not have gotten back in time.
How is that? well, Anderson did not need to bodily intercept and redirect Young to define physical assistance, which is how the rule is being read and interpreted. Anderson did come out of the coaching box, physically injecting himself into Young’s flight path, and did extend his hand in a reflexive effort to make a sufficiently demonstrative body language method of impedence, if not actual physical contact, and generate a level of urgent awareness that Young needed to return to 3B immediately. Young, in turn, reflexively responded in kind by extending his hand in a form of communicative acknowledgement.
So what we had was communication of very important information from coach to baserunner, which included physical contact to complete the transfer of info. This is more than a waving of arms and shouting and jumpign up and down. This is going so far as to move your body to an illegal position, reach out with your arm, and stick your hand out to create a physical barricade (as ineffective as a hand gesture might be to stop a human runner). And this was more than the baserunner making eye contact, reacting, and responding to orders. The baserunner here performs, by reflex, an act of agreement and acknowledgement. In so doing, the baserunner is the one who actually defines the proof necessary to enforce the rule. The action between the two was, indeed, that important. And the Young, by his response, acknowledges the importance of the action.
The Twins broadcasters got it right the first time: if Anderson had not jumped out and made contact, Young would not have gotten back in time.
Stirrups - September 7, 2010
To answer your specific question
HR = dead ball. all runners and batter advance to home plate.
No interference possible if ball is dead.
Stirrups - September 7, 2010
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