Gameday Thread (7/5/24 11:20am Pacific): Angels @ Cubs: Canning on the mound, Ward leading off, Hiura DH'ing

[jsnpritchett]

First of three early day games at Wrigley. 

Justin Steele gets the start for the Cubs.

 

Edited July 5 by jsnpritchett

[eligrba4ever]

GO ANGELS!!!!

WORK HARD. PLAY HARD. SWEEP THE CUBS.

Break the 4-game losing streak.

 

[DMVol]

I get the reasons for it but running Adell out there every day means you are playing with an 8 man lineup, with pretty close to one automatic out. 

[jsnpritchett]

Swanson has always been my comp for Neto.

 

 

[jsnpritchett]

 

 

[jsnpritchett]

@No Roles, are you happy Schanuel isn't leading off?

[DMVol]

Well, got the first inning thing with Canning over with. Now, pitch well for a few innings.

[eligrba4ever]

Canning is having his first-inning thing. Not what he needs.

[eligrba4ever]

Canning finally get the third out. But the pen was already up and throwing.

[eligrba4ever]

Just had an Emergency Alert test and MLBN is still stuck on PBS Kids.

[jsnpritchett]

2 minutes ago, eligrba4ever said:

Canning finally get the third out. But the pen was already up and throwing.

Dude just doesn't have it and I don't think he's ever going to develop into anything better.

[Blarg]

29 minutes ago, jsnpritchett said:

@No Roles, are you happy Schanuel isn't leading off?

Evidently No Roles slept in today and is going to miss the game.

[greginpsca]

20 innings and counting!

[Stradling]

Just now, Blarg said:

Evidently No Roles slept in today and is going to miss the game.

Perfect

[jsnpritchett]

3-ptich K for Kiura.  Unfortunately, I think we'll probably see a lot of that.

[Blarg]

Hiura's MLB debut as an Angels was somewhat predictable. 

[Blarg]

Hey, Adell made contact!

 

Baby steps.

[No Roles]

21 innings without a run, no wins in July, and no player to trade for anything of any worth ! Pretty Bleak... 

[No Roles]

and yes I was watching the euros which is actually competitive unlike angels baseball

[Blarg]

You can take the Angels out of Oakland but you can't take the shutout out of the Angels.

[Blarg]

Just now, No Roles said:

and yes I was watching the euros which is actually competitive unlike angels baseball

Please feel free to go back to that.

[Blarg]

I think there are more fans in line at the Chicago snack bar than attended the A's series.

[Blarg]

That was not a balk.

[jsnpritchett]

From Fletcher's daily article.  Lol.  I don't think it worked...

"Washington said he planned to have the Angels skip pregame batting practice on the field all three days in Chicago, in an effort to give the players “a break.” Washington said the Angels looked mentally fatigued in recent days. “Seven or eight days, we played tremendous baseball, and that’s the energy it takes to maintain tremendous baseball. We lost that energy. I just see as fatigue, mental fatigue, not physical.”

[Blarg]

That was an atrocious call by the umpire for strike 3. There is just no longer any reason to delay roboumpires.