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Tuesday, September 14, 2004
Angels 2, M's 3
It's been shown again and again (and again, just a few days ago by Maya); the Angels can't deal with off-speed pitches.
Bobby Madrisch (who rubs me the wrong way, and is now the player I most love to hate) fed the Halos a steady diet of changeups and curveballs, and the theory was once again proven to be true. It took nine innings for the Angels to finally make a dent, by which time they were pretty much out of it.
Washburn looked strong. Strong er than his last start at least. I still don't understand the decision to bring in Donnelly to face Bloomquist (who was lifted for Winn, who hit a homerun). Why does it matter that Washburn has had a little bit of trouble with Bloomquist in the past (the selective use of statistics on the part of Mike Scioscia is mind boggling)? He's a .239/.276/.313 hitter- if one of your supposed "aces" can't handle that, he deserves the loss. But hindsight is always 20/20.
We can take small consolation in the fact that Rangers managed to pull one out against the A's. Still two games back.
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