Game Recap 4/19/12: Thrown away – Athletics 4, Angels 2

How does a team score four runs on three hits and win the game?  That’s easy!  They play the Angels. Athletics 4, Angels 2 Somehow the Angels have only played 13 games this season yet they already seem to have figured out every possible creative way to lose a...

Game Preview 4/19/12: Do the splits – Athletics @ Angels

@Oakland Athletics (6-7) @ Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (4-8) Pitching Probables: OAK – Tommy Milone (1-1, 2.57 ERA)  LAA – C.J. Wilson (2-0, 1.38 ERA) Game Info: 7:05 PM PT; TV – Fox Sports West & MLB Network; Radio – KLAA 830...

Is Alberto Callaspo now trade bait?

With news of Erick Aybar signing a contract extension coming out this week, it should increase the odds that Alberto Callaspo is traded for relief help.  The fact that Aybar will definitely be around next year would seem to make Maicer Izturis expendable but I’m...

Does Mark Trumbo really need to be freed?

Free Mark Trumbo!!!  Free him now!  So says most any Angel fan you ask about anything even tangentially related to Angels baseball.  The way this large subset of Halo fans would tell it, the fact that Mark Trumbo has not started in three games and has a mere 19 plate...

Game Recap 4/18/12: Too Much Colon – Athletics 6, Angels 0

Bartolo Colon threw eight shut-out innings against the Angels tonight.  Yes, I know. Bartolo Colon. Atheltics 6, Angels 0   Where do I even begin? Do I begin with Yoenis Cespedes’ three-run home run off of Ervin Santana in the first inning? Or shall I fast...

De-Sciosciafying the Angels lineup

There’s been quite a bit of complaining over the way Scioscia has been handle the lineup the past weekend, and with good reason too. Who wouldn’t be a little frustrated with the way the lineup has been managed thus far? He’s burying the teams hottest...