Gameday Thread: O's at Angels, 06/02

by duck on Jun 2, 2007 6:07 PM EDT in Gamethreads

        Game Time: 9:05 | TV: MASN2 | Radio: WHFS
                        
    Steve Trachsel - RH                  Joe Saunders - LH
      (4-3, 3.39)                           (2-0, 1.96)
B. Roberts - 2B                      R. Willits - LF
J. Payton - CF                       O. Cabrera - 2B
N. Markakis - RF                     V. Guerrero - RF
M. Tejada - SS                       G. Matthews - CF
K. Millar - DH                       C. Kotchman - 1B
M. Mora - 3B                         E. Aybar - 2B
R. Hernandez - C                     M. Napoli - C
Orange Hole of Suck - LF             S. Hillebrand - DH
C. Gomez - 1B                        C. Figgins - 3B

It's game 3 of a 4-game set against a real, live MLB team. The good guys took game 1, and it's arguable they gave away game 2.

Trachsel's been as dependable as anyone on the O's staff this year, but a quick glance at Joe Saunders' numbers tells you this is a formidable task.

Hopefully, the Angels' fan base will be staying home en masse to watch Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Finals on NBC at 8 p.m., where the Anaheim Ducks play in Ottowa already leading 2-0. So, without the tens of thousands of Ducks/Angels fans in attendance, the O's stand a greater chance of winning, right?

OK, I'm reaching. But go Ducks. And go O's!

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Don't like the looks of this one

Saunders isn't exactly scary, but he's a groundball pitcher, which is a bad thing for a team that made Fausto Carmona look unhittable.

Trax has to implode sometime, and a ball-in-play pitcher versus an aggressive team that hits the ball hard also seems like a bad matchup.

I do like the Guthrie matchup against the (way) lesser Santana, so a split seems plausible. Tonight could be ugly.

by dkdc on Jun 2, 2007 6:40 PM EDT reply actions

We can't

make excuses for every team over .500, we can beat up on the terrible teams but we can easily make excuses for every other team out there.

by Baltimo on Jun 2, 2007 7:23 PM EDT up reply actions

you have

to see this. classic lou: javascript:void(playMedia2({w_id:'575531',w:'2007/open/tp/archive06/060207_atlchn_piniella_ejection_ tp_350.wmv',pid: 'mlb_tp',gid: '2007/06/02/atlmlb-chnmlb-1',vid: '7758',mid: '200706022000800',cid: 'mlb',fid: 'mlb_tp400',v:'2'}))

It looked like a hit then out of nowhere came SUPER MARKAKIS!!

by westcoastOfan on Jun 2, 2007 8:33 PM EDT reply actions

or

not

It looked like a hit then out of nowhere came SUPER MARKAKIS!!

by westcoastOfan on Jun 2, 2007 8:33 PM EDT up reply actions

Link to the page

rather than the video - so give a link to the page that contains the link to the video.

by duck on Jun 2, 2007 8:42 PM EDT up reply actions

here

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070602&content_id=2000738&vkey=news_mlb&fext=. jsp&c_id=mlb

It looked like a hit then out of nowhere came SUPER MARKAKIS!!

by westcoastOfan on Jun 2, 2007 8:46 PM EDT up reply actions

MUCH better

Keep hanging around, kid - we'll teach you HTML coding yet.

by duck on Jun 2, 2007 8:53 PM EDT up reply actions

3 up, 3 down

Trax looks like his usual pretty-damn-good self tonight.

by duck on Jun 2, 2007 9:19 PM EDT reply actions

Someone's not picthing well

and it ain't the guy with Orioles on his jersey. A four=-pitch walk and a HBP? Let's blow this open NOW!

by duck on Jun 2, 2007 9:24 PM EDT reply actions

Well

Thats the tradeoff we get, Jay Payton is much better at the plate, but Corey Patterson would have made that play in center.

by Baltimo on Jun 2, 2007 9:41 PM EDT reply actions

And

Because of no Patterson in center, its a tie game now instead of a runner on first and second with two down.

by Baltimo on Jun 2, 2007 9:42 PM EDT reply actions

So is Scorey's defense

worth the drop-off in average?

by duck on Jun 2, 2007 9:45 PM EDT up reply actions

This at bat

Is going to be bad, all odds are against Trax.

by Baltimo on Jun 2, 2007 9:56 PM EDT reply actions

Ok

I'm wrong.

by Baltimo on Jun 2, 2007 9:56 PM EDT reply actions

payton

just got home to turn on the game

payton's batting second??

Pitch fast, throw strikes, change speeds. -Ray Miller

by madhatternalice on Jun 2, 2007 10:10 PM EDT reply actions

holy crap

what a CATCH by markakis

by thewaywardO on Jun 2, 2007 10:19 PM EDT reply actions

Great, Amazing ....

The only catch I can remember anything like it is one I saw on TV -- Frank Robinson caught a ball going over the low fence at Yankee Stadium, fell into the stands and held his glove up in view the whole time to show he had not dropped the ball. I was at the game last night and believe me, Markakis' catch was one of the few high points

"Killing a Yankee fan -- is that illegal in this state?" -- Homicide Life on the Street

by BirdFanLA on Jun 3, 2007 8:40 PM EDT up reply actions

mudda effa

THE YOUNG SAVIOR WILL SAVE US ALL

by thewaywardO on Jun 2, 2007 10:19 PM EDT reply actions

Trax

Is throwing complete shit tonight. His pitch count is real high, he's not wild but not even close to the strike zone, and his breaking ball doesn't break all the time and hes gotten away with a few flat curves.

by Baltimo on Jun 2, 2007 10:24 PM EDT reply actions

true, but

he's been so good this year I'm not jumping on him for this one. everybody's going to have a bad night once in a while.

by jloving on Jun 2, 2007 10:35 PM EDT up reply actions

especially

against a really good angels team. we've been lucky to keep the run total down in the first two games...

Pitch fast, throw strikes, change speeds. -Ray Miller

by madhatternalice on Jun 2, 2007 10:37 PM EDT up reply actions

Yeah I agree

I'm not pissed cause he has pitched so well, but just noting that he is really, really off tonight. We can't make excuses forever against good teams.

by Baltimo on Jun 2, 2007 10:39 PM EDT up reply actions

So I get up at 6 am for this game...

...make myself a pretty good omelet, nice mug of coffee, settle into the Russian version of a barcalounger and fire up MLB.tv.

And it's already frickin' over.

OK, it's probably better on your liver to lose games early rather than late (especially when late involves the phrases "poor managerial judgment" or "Baez" or both) but still...

Well, let's see how the A's are doing...

Root-a-toot tootin' Vladimir Putin Ain't-a got nootin' On Sammy the P.

by Titov on Jun 2, 2007 11:43 PM EDT reply actions