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Monday, June 13, 2005Week in Review: June 6 – June 12Overall Record: 36-26
Games Ahead 2.5
Week Record: 4-2
Pace: 94-68
Record after 62 games: 2002: 37-25 2003: 32-30 2004: 35-27 Opponents: at Atlanta June 6-8 (2-1), at New York Mets June 10-12 (2-1) Hot: Mr. The Impaler came back in the Mets series and is hitting well, but does not yet have an extra base hit in his return. GA was 9-20 with 2 doubles. Dallas has continued to hit well, but is still striking out (he took the team lead this week). AK was 6-18 with 3 walks. Shields has pitched very well since going back to setting up, with 5.2 scoreless innings. Meanwhile, the starting pitchers continue to do a stellar job, giving up 15 runs this week…4 of them coming when Escobar’s arm fell off. And kudos to Erstad for his textbook collision with the catcher. Not: The Angels OF defense woes continue, with DaVanon breaking his nose when he ran face first into a wall while attempting unsuccessfully to catch a ball and Finley having a fluke play (he may be a bad OF, but I think it is largely a fluke that it bounced off of him the way it did) which led to an inside the park game-tying home run Saturday. Also, I think that Scioscia’s managerial decisions in several of these games have been pretty poor. For one, I would not have taken GA out when it went to extra innings on Saturday, double switch or not. Also, I would have walked Cliff Floyd after Reyes stole 3rd, giving a force out anywhere, and taking the game out of Floyd’s hands. I also probably would not have had DaVanon hit for Molina in the top of that inning which probably would have avoided the whole successful steal of 3rd in the first place. Coming up: The road trip from hell is over, and the Angels survived with a 6-6 record. They now begin a 2 week, 12-game home stand where they face Washington, Florida, Texas and LA. Washington is the hottest team in baseball and have Jose Guillen, who will be extra motivated playing in Anaheim again. Florida has struggled of late, but has the best pitching staff in the game.The Angels should miss Burnett and Beckett, but will likely face Willis, their ace. This may not be a problem for the Angels, as they have taken down aces at every turn, namely Jon Garland, Johan Santana, and Pedro Martinez. Opponents coming up: vs. Washington June 13-15, vs. Florida June 16-18 Probable Starters: Byrd vs. Loaiza, Santana vs. Hernandez, Colon vs. Kim, Washburn vs. Leiter, Lackey vs. Moehler, Byrd vs. Willis Comments:GA was taken out of the game on Saturday with a sore hammy, hence his non-inclusion in the lineup on Sunday. See, these are the things I don't learn because I have to watch the games online. I did know that was why he wasn't in Sunday's game, though. I still think the smart move is to walk Floyd. There was already a guy on third and two outs and a double loses the game (and a single makes it difficult to win, considering Frankie, Shields and Donnelly were already used). What do you trust more...Donnelly's ability to get Floyd out or his ability to get Wright out? I would take the bet that Wright is the easier out. |
