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Thursday, June 03, 2004
Angels 5, Indians 2
Home sweet home. After that rough road trip the Angels have won three straight, including tonight's solid win over the Cleveland Indians. Here are some random thoughts:
- Kelvim Escobar is the man. Great game tonight- his fourth straight quality start. And he's been even better then his numbers would indicate over that span. I think Kelvim has been the pitcher most effected by the piss-poor outfield defense this season. He's allowed 68 hits in 67.1 IP, but many of those have been of the bloop variety. Time was that kind of claim was something one had no way of proving, but now thanks to Hardball Times I cant tell you that Escobar's "Line Drive Percentage" is .137- well below league average (.181).
- Raul had his first homerun as an Angel. It was a monster shot in the 6th off of Cliff Lee. It was just the second homerun he has surrendered to a right-handed hitter this season.
I have to reiterate how impressed I have been with Mondesi so far. His Zone Rating entering tonight's game was 1.000, which means he's caught everything that you can reasonably expect a center fielder to catch. Now it's just two games, so that means almost nothing, but could Garret Anderson have gone two whole games without letting a catchable ball drop in front of him? I doubt it.
- Thanks to Steve Bartman for a 0.21 jump in Kevin Gregg's ERA. Whenever a fan interferes with a ball in play you always hear the announcers say, "everybody would have done the same thing in that situation." That's just not true, because I for one am actually paying attention to the damn game.
- David Eckstein extended his hitting streak to 18 games with a double, then promptly left the game with a "strained hamstring." He's listed as day-to-day. Yeah, good luck with that Eck.
- Why in the world was Shane Halter DH-ing tonight? I guess the better question is "why does Mike Scioscia think that Jeff DaVanon can't hit left-handers?" His career numbers vs. LHP are .284/.391/.500- better then his numbers vs. RHP, and far better then what Shane Halter could dream of putting up.
- So Percy's problems my be due to an injury. I hope so, because without him at the back of this bullpen things will quickly go to pieces.
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