Gameday 4/6/18 A's @ Angels

[JustATroutFan]

Winning these games early on in the season makes you feel so much better about yourself. Starting off slow will put so much pressure on your club and a team will be more exhausting in fighting uphill. Angels have started off great this year, just need to keep it up!

[stormngt]

4 minutes ago, Jay said:

This beats the shit out of the usual crappy Angels April

Careful....didn't we start 6-2 last year before going into a losing streak?

[JustATroutFan]

1 minute ago, stormngt said:

Careful....didn't we start 6-2 last year before going into a losing streak?

True but I feel like they have a much deeper team this year, especially the position players. Upton wasn't on the team  last April yet, neither was Kinsler or Ohtani. 

[eligrba4ever]

Got sidetracked in the 9th. So ....

BELATED LIGHT IT UP!!!

Shohei started the comeback rolling and the scoring machine finished off the A's.

Bridwell's early fail is forgotten ancient history. He'll rebound.

[eligrba4ever]

STAT OF THE DAY??

Angels are now 1-109 in games when trailing the Athletics by 6 runs.

[Glen]

3 hours ago, OHTANILAND said:

Great job Melvin. Go sit down clown.

Good call.

[ten ocho recon scout]

Im working so i missed the game after the 2cd inning, but this team is impressive as hell so far

[bloodbrother]

6 minutes ago, eligrba4ever said:

STAT OF THE DAY??

Angels are now 1-109 in games when trailing the Athletics by 6 runs.

1-0 with Ohtani though

[ukyah]

10 minutes ago, eligrba4ever said:

STAT OF THE DAY??

Angels are now 1-109 in games when trailing the Athletics by 6 runs.

the angels have played 110 games where they trailed the A's by at least 6 runs? jesus.

[ten ocho recon scout]

3 hours ago, OHTANILAND said:

In dog years 12 is old.

In chad curtis years, too.

[Lou]

38 minutes ago, Throwman91 said:

So he sandbagged is what you're saying, cool.  You're saying he can't adjust on the fly, good to know.

interesting how you neglected to add his:"  The sandbagging comments are in jest" 

[Lou]

1 minute ago, ten ocho recon scout said:

In chad curtis years, too.

lol 

[Inside Pitch]

4 minutes ago, Lou said:

interesting how you neglected to add his:"  The sandbagging comments are in jest" 

My favorite part was where he responded to my essentially saying he was using ST to adjust by telling me how I was saying he couldn't adjust....   

[Inside Pitch]

8 minutes ago, ten ocho recon scout said:

In chad curtis years, too.

This line was almost better than the game.....

[Billy_Ball]

3 hours ago, Randy Gradishar said:

Still too soon...

Mooooo Vaughn?  Traded for Appier = 2002 WS starting pitcher

Jim Edmonds?  Traded for Kennedy/Bottenfield = Kennedy 2002 ALCS MVP

[Rico]

7 hours ago, UndertheHalo said:

jesus christ wtf is this guy.  Every one of these seems hit harder then the last.

Not sure if it was posted yet, but 112.4 MPH exit velocity on the Ohtani HR.  

[Jason]

I didn't get to see the game last night but it sounded like it was a pretty fun game and the team played well minus Bridwell and Bedrosian

[tdawg87]

11 hours ago, tdawg87 said:

We're still going to win tho

Fuck all of you in the butt.

[nando714]

After re watching Ohtani face Casilla why doesn’t every pitcher just throw him breaking balls ?

[fan_since79]

9 hours ago, Throwman91 said:

He removed his high leg kick and went with a toe tap that's a major change in hitting mechanics.

You're absolutely right of course.

They're just messing with you. It's a baseball message board. Just roll with the punches and you'll have a great time here.

[fan_since79]

1 hour ago, nando714 said:

After re watching Ohtani face Casilla why doesn’t every pitcher just throw him breaking balls ?

At some point they'll adjust and you'll probably see that. It will then be up to Ohtani to figure out how to handle it.

Like Bellinger last year, opponents finally figured out he was vulnerable to the curve down and in. He flailed away at them in the WS and struck out a record 17 times.

[tdawg87]

Ohtani's first homerun was off a breaking pitch inside. 

It was poorly located, but he was all over it. 

[Stradling]

8 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

Ohtani's first homerun was off a breaking pitch inside. 

It was poorly located, but he was all over it. 

That’s what I thought 

[Inside Pitch]

4 hours ago, nando714 said:

After re watching Ohtani face Casilla why doesn’t every pitcher just throw him breaking balls ?

Not a single one of those pitches was actually in the zone -- my guess is once the game of cat and mouse starts, he'd eventually strop swinging at those..

[Lou]

On 4/6/2018 at 9:18 PM, Lou said:

We need more brown and yellow pitchers. 

I agree