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Two Games
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By Rob(noreply@blogger.com) Vlad's At It Again: Angels 9, Orioles 4 I was downstairs reading Bill Shaikin's Times recap of this game a few minutes ago. As with most day games, I got caught unawares, but Vlad had a four-RBI day off another finesse lefty, with Mark Teixeira picking up a 2-for-3 game with three runs scored. E...
Angels create pitcher's nightmare in duo
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- Teixeira was traded to the Angels on July 29, and he has made an immediate impact in just eight games with Anaheim. The switch-hitter is batting .286 with ... Beckett, not Manny, key to Sox' success Concord Monitor all 3 news articles
Angels create pitcher's nightmare in duo
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By Rhett Bollinger When the Red Sox traded Manny Ramirez to the Dodgers just before the Trade Deadline, it ended one of the best 1-2 punches in the game. Angels new duo AL nightmare
Teixeira's discipline gives his power more punch
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CA - The Angels' lineup needed some balance. Heavily weighted toward aggressive swingers like Vladimir Guerrero, Garret Anderson and Torii Hunter, ... To Angels' Matthews, playing in fall means more than being ready ... Press-Enterprise Are Braves' woes here to stay? Daily Journal
Santana wins 13th as Angels pound O's
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By Rhett Bollinger The Angels offense woke up Wednesday afternoon, scoring at least one run in each of the first four innings en route to a 9-4 blowout win over the Orioles. Angels pound O's
Weaver excited to take on Yanks
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• Wed, Aug 6
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By Rhett Bollinger Jered Weaver knows a little bit about the Angels' recent rivalry against the Yankees. He knows that the Angels have given the Yankees fits in recent years. And that's why Weaver is expecting a playoff atmosphere when he takes the mound Friday in the series opener at Angel Stadium. Weaver to fa...
Manny, Tex share digs for now
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CA - That means Jered Weaver, John Lackey and Joe Saunders will be working on six days' rest when they start the Angels' three-game series in Cleveland on Aug. ... To Angels' Matthews, playing in fall means more than being ready ... Press-Enterprise all 9 news articles
Loux impressive in Angels debut
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- Aug 6, 2008 By Rhett Bollinger / MLB.com ANAHEIM -- Shane Loux was out of baseball just one year ago, so when he made his first Major League appearance since 2003 on ... Minor Leagues, Major Profits Forbes all 3 news articles
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Angels expect Napoli to return Friday
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- By Rhett Bollinger / MLB.com ANAHEIM -- Catcher Mike Napoli, who has been on the disabled list since July 6 with irritation in his right shoulder, ... Tired Mathis Ready for Nap Press-Enterprise all 5 news articles
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Minor League Scorebook
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By Rob(noreply@blogger.com) News The Angels released OF Aaron Peel, who was trying to rehab from a broken clavicle. Cody Fuller was reassigned to Rancho Cucamonga, and INF Adam Morissey returned from a stint with Salt Lake. The Dodgers signed former Baltimore Orioles pitcher Eric DuBose to a minor league contract and...
Better for Angels if Rodriguez doesn't break record
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CA - Would it be best for the Angels — and best for closer Francisco Rodriguez — if he doesn't break the single-season saves record this season? ...
Angels learning the virtues of patience
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CA - Aug 6, 2008 Catcher Mike Napoli, recovering from a shoulder injury, went one for four with a double in a minor league rehabilitation game with Class-A Rancho Cucamonga.
Two Games
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By Rob(noreply@blogger.com) Unknown, Pus-Throwing Lefty: Orioles 3, Angels 0 Shut out by lefty Chris Waters, making his major league debut, the Angels obliged and did what they usually do against unknown lefties, i.e. lose. The amazing part was why Mike Scioscia decided it was time to put offensive zeros Robb Quinlan a...
This Day in Baseball History: August 4th (Happy Birthday, Roger!)
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By Administrator In 1910, Jack Coombs, of the Philadelphia A’s, and Ed Walsh, of the Chicago White Sox, dueled one another in a 16-inning scoreless tie. Also in 1985, Rod Carew of the Angels singled off Twins lefty Frank Viola to become the 16th major leaguer to amass 3000 hits.
Angels Bullpen New Area of Concern
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• Tue, Aug 5
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Then of course there was the horror show on Sunday in New York. The Angels ace had struggled a bit but John Lackey left the game after the 6th inning with a 5-4 lead. But the rickety bullpen was nowhere near up to the task. Jose Arrendondo had his worst game of the season by far, allowing 3 hits and 4 r...
Q&A with ... Angels closer Francisco Rodriguez
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Bleacher Report Q&A with ... Angels closer Francisco Rodriguez - Heck, if not for an epic season from the Angels’ Francisco Rodriguez, Soria might be the best closer in baseball—period. He has been virtually untouchable ... Quintong: Understanding closers' numbers ESPN
Eau du '95 Gone
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• Tue, Aug 5
By Rev Halofan But then Torii Hunter hit a double to lead off the bottom of the 9th in this maddening tie ballgame. He is not on Jackie Autry’s payroll. He is not managed by a Lachemann. He was not drafted by Mike Port. Torii Hunter’s contract was not negotiated by a Bavasi. Torii Hunter was signed by Tony Reagins a...
Angels are given a pass this time
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• Tue, Aug 5
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CA - Aug 5, 2008 But the Angels still went on to score two runs in the inning, one when Torii Hunter was hit by a pitch, the other on an infield single by Garret Anderson. ...
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Angels' Teixeira a hit with the bat, not the glove, in home debut
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CA - The Angels optioned right-hander Darren O'Day and selected the contract of right-hander Shane Loux from Class AAA Salt Lake. Loux (pronounced Lukes) is 12-6 ...
Torii Hunter rejoins Angels
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CA - Aug 4, 2008 A year ago, Shane Loux, called up by the Angels on Monday, was out of baseball. Forever, he figured. A career minor leaguer, the right-handed pitcher had a ... Loux gets a second chance with Angels Daily Breeze all 4 news articles
Teixeira feeling right at home
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By Rhett Bollinger Mark Teixeira sat in the dugout fully dressed in his Angels home jersey for the first time Monday and talked about how much he loved playing in Anaheim as an opposing player. The first baseman ranked Angel Stadium as his third favorite place to play. Teixeira feeling right at home
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Angels defense slipping
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CA - Aug 3, 2008 Angels closer Francisco Rodriguez expects the atmosphere at the new stadium to be no different than the old one. "It's probably going to be the same because ... Angels Notebook: Angels want to take souvenirs, and already have ... Press-Enterprise all 11 news articles
A year after power outage, Angels homer their way to July success
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By Joe Florkowski The Angels’ home run surge was led by Torii Hunter who is starting to earn that fat contract – he hit nine of his 18 home runs in July. He was not the only Angel who had a multiple home run July – several Angels hit three or more home runs including Garret Anderson, Howie Kendrick, Juan Rivera and V...
Two Three Games
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By Rob(noreply@blogger.com) Angels Hide Pettitte, Yanks: Angels 12, Yankees 6 Closer than it appears because of a bad outing by Darren O'Day, who loaded the bases late and gave up a run on a bases-loaded walk and was ultimately charged with all three runs that frame. The Angels just moiderized Andy Pettite to the tune of...
Red Sox Likely Post-Season Opponents Continue To Improve… Angels Land Braves 1B Teixeira
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• Tue, Jul 29
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By Administrator The Angels have the best record in baseball at 65-40, but their offense ranks ninth in the American League in runs scored, 10th in slugging percentage, and 11th in on-base percentage. GM Reagins said: “We are pleased to bring Mark into the Angels family. He is a tremendous player and we feel h...
Angels get Teixiera: Analysis of the deal and its impact
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• Tue, Jul 29
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By Joe Florkowski Say goodbye to Maicier Izturis as your No. 3 hitter. The Angels have slotted Izturis into the No. 3 hole in recent weeks and he has produced. But now it is likely Vladimir Guerrero or Texieira will move into that spot - I think it’s a slight improvement over Izturis.
Harris Poll: Angels Least Popular Team in America
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By Richard Nickerson The Dodgers remain the most popular team in the west, fifth overall while to exactly no one’s surprise, the Yankees were the #1 most popular team overall. The Harris Poll shows that the Angels are on a downward trajectory in terms of nationwide popularity having slid to 29th from 23rd last y...
Double-Double And A Salami: Angels 14, Indians 11
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By Rob(noreply@blogger.com) The Angels broke records and made the outfielders work at the wall in this one, a wild offensive game with John Lackey posting the Angels' third weak start in a row. Luckily for him, the Angels offense bailed him out in the fifth, but here I get ahead of myself.
Road Woes Continue As Bases-Loaded Triple Spells Disaster For Red Sox, 4-2
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By Administrator Red Sox starter Josh Beckett was working on a four-hit shutout entering the bottom of the seventh inning. Angels right fielder Vladimir Guerrero led off the frame with a home run to cut the deficit in half, but that was only the beginning of Beckett’s problems. Torii Hunter and Garrett Ander...
Lackey's 1,000th K Only The Cherry: Angels 11, Red Sox 3
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By Rob(noreply@blogger.com) Apparently unsatisfied with the five-run lead, the Angels got more in the sixth, with a Chone Figgins double and a one-out har-de-har-har "triple" from Maicer Izturis. Now, there's been some talk that Manny threw a pinch-hit at-bat in a July 6 game against the Yankees, failing to take the...
Grading the Angels’ first half of the season - Part 1 - The hitters
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By Joe Florkowski Shortstop - Maicier Izturis/Erick Aybar - B - The averages are not totally there and the glovework is not quite as smooth as Orlando Cabrera’s but considering the shoes they had to fill, Izturis and Aybar have done pretty much the job the Angels expected when they traded Cabrera for Jon Gar...
Florida Marlins are number 25
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By craig In a somewhat unreliable survey, the Marlins are the 25th favorite team in Major League Baseball. What is your favorite Major League Baseball team?" Base: U.S. Adults Who Follow Major League Baseball Rank 1999 Rank Rank 2004 Rank 2005 Rank 2006 Rank 2007 Rank
Wrap: Game 95 - Angels 4, A's 3
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By Taj Adib So folks, here are your 2008 Oakland A's: Now 6 games out of 1st place for at least the next 4 days; still growing into major leaguers; one step closer to being in full "sell" mode and definitely one strike, one out, and one play away from truly challenging the reigning AL West champion Los Ang...
Open Thread: Game 95 - A's vs. Angels
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• Sun, Jul 13
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By Taj Adib Los Angeles Angels @ Oakland Athletics 07/13/08 1:05 PM PDT Los Angeles AngelsOakland AthleticsMaicer Izturis - 3BKurt Suzuki - CCasey Kotchman - 1BMatt Murton - LFGarret Anderson - LFJack Cust - DHVladimir Guerrero - DHEmil Brown - RFTorii Hunter - CFCarlos Gonzalez - CFJuan Rivera -...
The Rangers Can Hit: Angels 11, Rangers 10 (11 Innings)
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By Rob(noreply@blogger.com) What made so much of this even nuttier is that with all the hitting, it was a pinch-hitting Maicer Izturis who broke through in the top of the eleventh with a clutch single, while Ryan Budde made his first appearance of the year, and as far as I can tell, had no influence on its outcome other tha...
Laurel For Garland: Angels 7, Blue Jays 1
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By Rob(noreply@blogger.com) But that Litsch was a relative unknown to the Angels at the time, and this time they were ready for him; it helped that his command wasn't quite where it needed to be, plunking Casey Kotchman in the first, and later walking Garret Anderson in the third; Kotchman went on to score on Anderson's...
Blue Jays Down Lackey, Sloppy Angels: Blue Jays 7, Angels 5
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By Rob(noreply@blogger.com) As for the offense, as expected it failed to show up against Roy Halliday, who brought his B+ game to the yard, allowing a couple runs on a Vlad Guerrero homer, but none else. Halliday only really got into two jams all night, men on second and third situations with one out in the third and with tw...
The Offense Bails Out The Pitching: Angels 7, A's 4
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By Rob(noreply@blogger.com) Aybar later atoned for his screwup by ripping a homer in the seventh. Reggie Willits got a rare RBI in a sac fly in the eighth. And through Arredondo to Shields to Frankie (the latter earning his league-leading 34th save), the Angels never lost their lead or the game, and so did Hokie Joe end the...
A's Lay the Smack Down on Angels
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By Blez What was fascinating about watching this game tonight is that the Angels offense is sputtering worse than the A's offense right now. Outside of the normally hacktastic Erick Aybar, the lineup didn't show much patience against Smith who has often had control issues lately. Aybar got the...
Answering Don Drysdale's Question: Dodgers 1, Angels 0
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By Rob(noreply@blogger.com) The Dodgers of the mid-1960s featured pitching, speed, defense and light hitting. The last quality was so notorious that teammate Don Drysdale, while briefly away from the team, was informed of a Koufax no-hitter and famously asked, "Who won?" — cribbed from B-Ref's Wiki, which is down r...
When, How Much To Shuffle Rotations?
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• Fri, Jun 27
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By Nico Would it be worth it to the Angels to fiddle with their rotation just enough to prevent the A's from throwing Harden and Ducscherer three games out of six against six pitchers not named Lackey? For what it's worth, Lackey is pitching Sunday and if he were held back to Monday he would face the A...
The Disadvantages Of Kapok: Braves 5, Angels 2
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By Rob(noreply@blogger.com) The Angels also got lucky on another play in the third: with Maicer Izturis at first, Howie Kendrick doubled down the left field line. Left fielder Brandon Jones fielded the ball and threw it to the infield, and the cutoff man — I believe the shortstop, Yunel Escobar — threw a bolt down the lin...
Kevin Goldstein On The Angels' Draft
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By Rob(noreply@blogger.com) Rest of the First Day: 3. Ryan Chaffee, RHP, Chipola JC (FL): The bulky right-hander misses a lot of bats, but also misses the strike zone at times. 3. Zach Cone, OF, Parkview HS (GA): A monster athlete with plus-plus speed and power potential; needs to become a better hitter.
Game Wrap: Angels 5, A's 3
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• Sat, Jun 7
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By Taj Adib If there was ever a game that showed how far the A's need to go from where they are currently to where they want to be, it would be tonight's contest. From start to finish it just seemed like the Angels were the better team. They were better prepared, they executed their game plan to perfection an...
Open Thread: Game 62 - A's vs. Angels
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By Taj Adib Although, it's actually fun to listen to him when the Angels are losing, when he's embarrassing himself by scrambling incoherently for positive things to say...so lets hope, just maybe for my sake, that Greg Smith and the rest of the Green and Gold can make it happen this evening. Tonight migh...
Fourth Walkoff In A Week! Angels 4, Blue Jays 3
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By Rob(noreply@blogger.com) The Angels' recovery from their prone state came against closer B.J. Ryan, and oddly enough, it was Vlad's flaccid bat that sparked it. Torii Hunter singled behind him, driving Vlad to third base in typical Angels fashion, but then Kotchman bounced into a fielder's choice that erased Vlad a...
Pickoff Moves
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By Rob Peter Gammons Shares Some Angels Love They're flourishing despite early-season adversity: The Angels have played a month without their two best starting pitchers, John Lackey and Kelvim Escobar. Their closer, Frankie Rodriguez, is just now rounding into form after dealing with two b...
ALDS Game 1 Live Blog: Red Sox Vs. Angels
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By Leitch Angels 0, Red Sox 4 Angels 0, Red Sox 4 Angels 0, Red Sox 4 Angels 0, Red Sox 1 Angels 0, Red Sox 1 Maicer Izturis grounds out to third. One down. Camera cuts to a close up of Mike Scioscia. -1 for HD broadcasting) Angels 0, Red Sox 1 Angels 0, Red Sox 1 Angels 0, Red Sox 0
Bronx Banter: You'll Never Guess How I Feel About the Angels
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• Tue, Aug 21
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Its funny: as much as I hate the Angels, Ive never found much to dislike about their individual players. If we're being honest, they're a pretty inoffensive group*; I mean, John Lackey tends to breathe through his mouth all the time, which is a pet peeve of mine, and Chone Figgins has been sli...
Could Matthews Be Gone Before Opening Day?
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By Richard Nickerson LOS ANGELES, March 3 /PRNewswire/ — The following statement was issued I have met with Gary Matthews Jr., whom I believe is a terrific young rules established by Major League Baseball. Gary wishes to cooperate with Major League Baseball, the Los Angeles