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

[eligrba4ever]

Nice catch, Taylor.

[Angels 1961]

This BP is fried going to be a long last 3 months. 

[eligrba4ever]

Cub 3B made an impressive play to get Adell.

[tdawg87]

6 game winning streak and then a 5 game losing streak.

Lmao this team.

[fan_since79]

All-Star break will mercifully give us a few days of not losing.

[eligrba4ever]

95 pitches is all it takes to throw a 2-hit victory over the Halos. Second opponent to get a CG since Wednesday.

[jsnpritchett]

A 4-pitch 9th inning.  Great way to end, fellas.  Battle, battle, battle.

[Waybackman]

Have they bottomed out yet?
 

[eligrba4ever]

Just now, Waybackman said:

Have they bottomed out yet?
 

Probably not.

[jsnpritchett]

1 minute ago, Waybackman said:

Have they bottomed out yet?
 

 

Just now, eligrba4ever said:

Probably not.

[eligrba4ever]

IL for Rengifo. Get that inflammation over with, Luis.

[jsnpritchett]

Just realized that was Steele's first win of the season.  Weird.  He had a stretch of 3 bad starts when he was coming back from an injury, but other than that, he's pitched pretty well this year.  Seems like he would have lucked into a win before today.

[fan_since79]

12 minutes ago, Waybackman said:

Have they bottomed out yet?
 

No.

We haven't had a good 14-game losing streak yet.

[Swordsman78]

2 minutes ago, fan_since79 said:

No.

We haven't had a good 14-game losing streak yet.

We're on our way tho

[Angel Oracle]

Nine games before the ASB, predictions?

[70runner]

42 minutes ago, Angel Oracle said:

Nine games before the ASB, predictions?

 

[Angel Oracle]

I’ll go with 2-7 leading up to the break, 38-58 record at the ASB.

Swept in Chicago, one win at home vs each of Texas and Seattle.

Franchise low 65-95 record in 1980 could be in danger?  

Edited July 5 by Angel Oracle

[jsnpritchett]

Pillar is now 13 for his last 69 and and 6 for his last 43.  Ship him out ASAP while he still has some marginal value.

Braves are less likely now.  They just signed their old friend Eddie Rosario--though they also just called up Eli White, who's awful, so maybe they'll still make a minor upgrade.

[Slegnaac]

33 minutes ago, Angel Oracle said:

I’ll go with 2-7 leading up to the break, 38-58 record at the ASB.

Swept in Chicago, one win at home vs each of Texas and Seattle.

Franchise low 65-95 record in 1980 could be in danger?  

[DMVol]

29 minutes ago, jsnpritchett said:

Pillar is now 13 for his last 69 and and 6 for his last 43.  Ship him out ASAP while he still has some marginal value.

Braves are less likely now.  They just signed their old friend Eddie Rosario--though they also just called up Eli White, who's awful, so maybe they'll still make a minor upgrade.

AA doesn’t make a lot of bad moves. Maybe he preferred Rosario…or maybe he didn’t want to pay what Perry wanted for Pillar…….Rosario didn’t cost anything…

[jsnpritchett]

2 minutes ago, DMVol said:

AA doesn’t make a lot of bad moves. Maybe he preferred Rosario…or maybe he didn’t want to pay what Perry wanted for Pillar…….Rosario didn’t cost anything…

In general, I agree with you--though I will say that he does over-complicate things sometimes.  The Braves probably would have been better off re-signing Freeman and keeping William Contreras as opposed to trading all those guys for Olson then extending him, and then trading Contreras + others for Sean Murphy and extending him. 

[No Roles]

3 hours ago, Blarg said:

 

Okay, @No Roles age has now been established as 13 years old. 

just means i'm on the path to becoming a prodigy ! some rather play the piano not me I rather knock you off your rocker

[Duren, Duren]

Non competitive once more. Not even entertaining or interesting storylines. Even trade deadline speculation is unenthusiastic because this team has so little offer anyone. 

Canning leads everyone in first inning homers given up. And just can't ever get a rhythm going. Maybe time to see a psychiatrist? Seems a mental thing as much as physical. Like he expects for things to go bad and has a 'here we go again' attitude as soon as anything goes against him. 

Hard to be angry because the roster is so flawed. They aren't underachieving. They are just who they are. 

[Rollinghard]

8 hours ago, Blarg said:

WTF was that, Ward? He wasn't even close to catching that ball and yet ends up diving for no reason. 

Him and Jo have been working together.

 

[Swordsman78]

2 hours ago, Duren, Duren said:

Non competitive once more. Not even entertaining or interesting storylines. Even trade deadline speculation is unenthusiastic because this team has so little offer anyone. 

Canning leads everyone in first inning homers given up. And just can't ever get a rhythm going. Maybe time to see a psychiatrist? Seems a mental thing as much as physical. Like he expects for things to go bad and has a 'here we go again' attitude as soon as anything goes against him. 

Hard to be angry because the roster is so flawed. They aren't underachieving. They are just who they are. 

Most of the players  are underachieving compared to their overall career stats