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Title: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: Mr. Happy on April 18, 2017, 03:28:25 pm
Your lineups for tonight's home tilt:

Angels

3BYunel Escobar (R)
RFKole Calhoun (L)
CFMike Trout (R)
DHAlbert Pujols (R)
1BC.J. Cron (R)
LFCameron Maybin (R)
SSA. Simmons (R)
2BDanny Espinosa (S)
CM. Maldonado (R)

LAA: Ricky Nolasco (R)  (0-2, 5.40)

Astros

CF George Springer (R)
RF Josh Reddick (L)
2B Jose Altuve (R)
DH Carlos Beltran (S)
C Brian McCann (L)
SS Alex Bregman (R)
3B Marwin Gonzalez (S)
1B Y. Gurriel (R)
LF Norichika Aoki (L)

HOU: Joe Musgrove (R)  (1-0, 4.35)
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: HudsonHawk on April 18, 2017, 07:19:26 pm
T1:

Escobar singles to RF
Calhoun strikes out swinging
Trout strikes out swinging
Pujols punches a soft pop up to Musgrove

No score. 
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: NeilT on April 18, 2017, 07:20:56 pm
So why do you never make the first or third out at third, but it's ok to make the second?
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: MikeyBoy on April 18, 2017, 07:21:02 pm
Great job by Musgrove after the lead off single.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: HudsonHawk on April 18, 2017, 07:26:55 pm
B1:

Springer pops out F3 on the first pitch
Reddick grounds out 4-3
Altuve singles to CF
Beltran late on a 2-0 fastball and flies out to LF

No score
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: HudsonHawk on April 18, 2017, 07:31:11 pm
So why do you never make the first or third out at third, but it's ok to make the second?

Because with nobody out and at 2B, you don't need a hit to score.  With two out you need a hit to score from either 2B or 3B, so it really doesn't make a huge difference getting to 3B.  With one out, you still need a hit to score from 2B, but if you make it to 3B with one out, you don't.  So with one out is considered the time to take the risk. 
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: NeilT on April 18, 2017, 07:34:10 pm
Because with nobody out and at 2B, you don't need a hit to score.  With two out you need a hit to score from either 2B or 3B, so it really doesn't make a huge difference getting to 3B.  With one out, you still need a hit to score from 2B, but if you make it to 3B with one out, you don't.  So with one out is considered the time to take the risk.

That makes sense.  Now what happens when the ball bounces out of bounds?
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: HudsonHawk on April 18, 2017, 07:36:26 pm
That makes sense.  Now what happens when the ball bounces out of bounds?

A batted ball or a thrown ball?
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: NeilT on April 18, 2017, 07:37:46 pm
A batted ball or a thrown ball?

There's a difference?
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: HudsonHawk on April 18, 2017, 07:39:02 pm
T2:

Cron bounces back to the mound
Maybin grounds out 3U
Simmons takes strike two,for a ball, swings at strike three, but ump inexplicable rules he didn't swing, so after he should have punched out, he homers to RF on the next pitch
Espinosa with a weak grounder to where the third baseman should be, but no one is there...single
Maldonado walks, Espinosa to 2B
Escobar flies out F7

1-0 Angels
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: HudsonHawk on April 18, 2017, 07:42:10 pm
There's a difference?

Yes.  Depends on whether it's a pitch, a ball thrown for the first time on the infield, a second throw from the infield or a throw from the outfield.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: NeilT on April 18, 2017, 07:43:45 pm
Yes.  Depends on whether it's a pitch, a ball thrown for the first time on the infield, a second throw from the infield or a throw from the outfield.

This game is complicated.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: HudsonHawk on April 18, 2017, 07:45:22 pm
This game is complicated.

It's a simple game...you throw the ball...you hit the ball...you catch the ball.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: NeilT on April 18, 2017, 07:47:00 pm
What's up with the Rubbermaid gloves?  Are the players washing  dishes in the Diamond Club between innings?
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: HudsonHawk on April 18, 2017, 07:47:07 pm
B2:

McCann grounds out 3-1
Bregman strikes out looking
Marwin strikes out swinging at a pitch two feet off the plate in the dirt

1-0 Halos
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: NeilT on April 18, 2017, 07:53:58 pm
McCann seems terrific. 
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: HudsonHawk on April 18, 2017, 07:56:04 pm
T3:

Calhoun strikes out looking
Trout...works the count full on 10 pitches...flies out F8
Pujols chops to third base...5-3

1-0 Angels
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: HudsonHawk on April 18, 2017, 07:58:39 pm
YULI!!!

Ties it up
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: Col. Sphinx Drummond on April 18, 2017, 07:58:57 pm
Yuli G!
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: NeilT on April 18, 2017, 07:59:01 pm
RUBBERMAID!
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: Col. Sphinx Drummond on April 18, 2017, 08:02:34 pm
Springer!
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: HudsonHawk on April 18, 2017, 08:02:52 pm
Springer Dinger!

Blummer called it
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: MusicMan on April 18, 2017, 08:02:58 pm
Anything that flies that far oughta have a damn stewardess on it.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: NeilT on April 18, 2017, 08:03:01 pm
SPRINGER!!
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: Col. Sphinx Drummond on April 18, 2017, 08:04:13 pm
Is "velo" douche bag slang for velocity?
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: NeilT on April 18, 2017, 08:05:28 pm
Is "velo" douche bag slang for velocity?

It's short for bicycle. 
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: Col. Sphinx Drummond on April 18, 2017, 08:07:52 pm
It's short for bicycle.
I understand the proper context.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: HudsonHawk on April 18, 2017, 08:08:37 pm
B3:

Gurriel homers on the first pitch
Aoki flies out F7
Springer homers to CF...off the batter's eye
Reddick grounds out 4-3, yells "FUCK!"
Altuve with an infield single up the middle
Beltran ground out 4-3

2-1 Astros
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: HudsonHawk on April 18, 2017, 08:09:20 pm
Is "velo" douche bag slang for velocity?

Yes.  It's one of Kalas's more annoying words, up there with "intriguing". 
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: Col. Sphinx Drummond on April 18, 2017, 08:09:46 pm
So did they ever say what the exit bicycle of Springer's homer was?
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: NeilT on April 18, 2017, 08:10:14 pm
I understand the proper context.

It's also short for why there are no more dinosaurs:  Velocirapture.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: MusicMan on April 18, 2017, 08:10:25 pm
CAN'T SLEEP ORBIT WILL EAT ME
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: NeilT on April 18, 2017, 08:11:24 pm
CAN'T SLEEP ORBIT WILL EAT ME

That was a great ad.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: Col. Sphinx Drummond on April 18, 2017, 08:12:33 pm
I'm thinking it was 97 Treks or maybe 121 Schwinn Stingrays
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: Col. Sphinx Drummond on April 18, 2017, 08:13:48 pm
It's also short for why there are no more dinosaurs:  Velocirapture.
So maybe 13 brontosaruii per second?
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: Col. Sphinx Drummond on April 18, 2017, 08:16:56 pm
It still seems to me like it would be more natural to play Correa at third and Bregman at short.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: HudsonHawk on April 18, 2017, 08:18:05 pm
T4:

Cron grounds out 4-3
Maybin grounds out 6-3 on a sweet barehanded pickup by Bregman
Simmons singles to LF
Espinosa strikes out lookkng

2-1 Astros
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: NeilT on April 18, 2017, 08:18:50 pm
Through 4 last night I think it was 9:27 pm.  That was the slowest uneventful game ever.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: Col. Sphinx Drummond on April 18, 2017, 08:20:35 pm
Yes.  It's one of Kalas's more annoying words, up there with "intriguing".
Yeah, it's bad. But I still like Kalas and it wouldn't be the worst thing to be annoyed by that quirk a whole lot.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: MusicMan on April 18, 2017, 08:21:43 pm
So did they ever say what the exit bicycle of Springer's homer was?

110 mph, 441'


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Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: MusicMan on April 18, 2017, 08:22:25 pm
McCann singles off the scoreboard, gunned down at second, review coming


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Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: Col. Sphinx Drummond on April 18, 2017, 08:22:49 pm
I think McCann got in there.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: austro on April 18, 2017, 08:24:03 pm
I think McCann got in there.

I think so, too, but I think it's close enough that they'll stick with the original call.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: MusicMan on April 18, 2017, 08:24:18 pm
I think McCann got in there.

He has a low velo, but lots of force.


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Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: NeilT on April 18, 2017, 08:25:24 pm
Bad call.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: Col. Sphinx Drummond on April 18, 2017, 08:26:06 pm
I liked the way Maybin played that off the wall but I think he lost it and got a lucky carom.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: NeilT on April 18, 2017, 08:27:50 pm
If you had a bathroom labeled McCann, and a bathroom labeled Gattis, would the Texas Legislature know which was which?
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: Aussie Astro on April 18, 2017, 08:29:35 pm
Through 4 last night I think it was 9:27 pm.  That was the slowest uneventful game ever.

The haiku supports that claim.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: MusicMan on April 18, 2017, 08:30:04 pm
If you had a bathroom labeled McCann, and a bathroom labeled Gattis, would the Texas Legislature know which was which?

If you had a bathroom labeled "shit" and a bathroom labeled "Shinola", would the Texas Legislature know which was which?


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Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: NeilT on April 18, 2017, 08:30:24 pm
The haiku supports that claim.

You probably got a house painted during that game.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: HudsonHawk on April 18, 2017, 08:31:57 pm
B4:

McCann with a high drive off the top of the LF wall, it bounces over the LFer, who runs it down as McCann slides into the bag and tagged out...Hinch to challenge, looks like he was safe...two minutes are long gone...call upheld on a bad call.  Score it a single with 7-4 on the putout.
Bregman lines out to 3B
Marwin grounds out 6-3

2-1 Astros
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: Col. Sphinx Drummond on April 18, 2017, 08:35:41 pm
Whenever I see a guy in a chef's hat at the ballpark, I know someone is in for a special culinary delight.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: austro on April 18, 2017, 08:35:54 pm
If you had a bathroom labeled "shit" and a bathroom labeled "Shinola", would the Texas Legislature know which was which?

Doubtful, but you can bet that they'll pass a law that will prevent local municipalities from making their own decision.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: juliogotay on April 18, 2017, 08:36:03 pm
I have heartburn just looking at the sausage burger.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: Knoxbanedoodle on April 18, 2017, 08:37:17 pm
That was the rare situation where I bet if McCann had been called safe the Angels wouldn't even have challenged.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: Aussie Astro on April 18, 2017, 08:40:48 pm
You probably got a house painted during that game.

There is a couple of days of my life I will never get back.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: homer on April 18, 2017, 08:41:52 pm
Doubtful, but you can bet that they'll pass a law that will prevent local municipalities from making their own decision.

I hate it when that happens.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: HudsonHawk on April 18, 2017, 08:42:10 pm
Whoever bragged about how crisp this game was moving along...fuck you very much.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: NeilT on April 18, 2017, 08:43:18 pm
Whoever bragged about how crisp this game was moving along...fuck you very much.

Sorry, but to be fair I only complained about how slow last night went.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: NeilT on April 18, 2017, 08:44:17 pm
That was a great pitch.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: chuck on April 18, 2017, 08:45:59 pm
Whenever I see a guy in a chef's hat at the ballpark, I know someone is in for a special culinary delight.

That's a sure sign good old chuck is a-fixin to employ the mute button.

I would like to find the person who invented the mute button and give them some sort of prize. Perhaps a toothsome hand made funnel cake.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: NeilT on April 18, 2017, 08:47:11 pm
Pujols would look good in a chef's hat.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: Col. Sphinx Drummond on April 18, 2017, 08:47:41 pm
So close. and poor communication on the relay in cost ...
Fuck Pooholes.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: MusicMan on April 18, 2017, 08:47:52 pm
I have never hated a player more than Albert Pujols


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Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: NeilT on April 18, 2017, 08:47:55 pm
I fuckin hate Albert Pujols.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: HudsonHawk on April 18, 2017, 08:47:56 pm
Wheels fall off...5-2 Angels
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: austro on April 18, 2017, 08:48:47 pm
I fuckin hate Albert Pujols.

I think it here, Neil types it there.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: HudsonHawk on April 18, 2017, 08:49:34 pm
T5:

Maldonado with an infield single...Marwin grabs it behind the 3B bag, but too long a throw
Escobar singles to LF, Maldonado to 2B
Calhoun...full count...strikes out looking at the 12th pitch of the at bat
Trout lines to RCF...Springer dives, but can't come up with it as he dives and it's off his glov...ball comes in...Altuve holds it, counts the laces, smokes a cigarette, and Maldonado rumbles around and would have been out by 8 steps on a good throw...Escobar to 3B, Trout to 2B
Pujols hits one out of the stadium...even though the roof is closed, Escobar scores, Trout scores
Cron pops out F3
Maybin flies out F9

5-2 Halos
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: austro on April 18, 2017, 08:50:15 pm
I have never hated a player more than Albert Pujols

You have to admit he hits pretty well for a 50-year-old.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: NeilT on April 18, 2017, 08:51:20 pm
You have to admit he hits pretty well for a 50-year-old.
 
You'd then DAS would have caught up with him by now.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: MusicMan on April 18, 2017, 08:51:41 pm
You have to admit he hits pretty well for a 50-year-old.

He stood there longer admiring it than most people's first sexual experience lasted.


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Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: MusicMan on April 18, 2017, 08:52:59 pm
He stood there longer admiring it than most people's first sexual experience lasted.


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Hell, he watched it even longer than Altuve held that relay throw.


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Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: NeilT on April 18, 2017, 08:53:34 pm
He stood there longer admiring it than most people's first sexual experience lasted.


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Most people's first sexual experience wasn't managed by Tony LaRussa.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: Col. Sphinx Drummond on April 18, 2017, 08:53:41 pm
I fuckin hate Albert Pujols.

He's such a cocksucker.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: MusicMan on April 18, 2017, 08:54:36 pm
Most people's first sexual experience wasn't managed by Tony LaRussa.

So THAT'S why she kept saying to bring in a lefty!


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Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: chuck on April 18, 2017, 08:54:41 pm
I hate it when that happens.

Amen, brother. Communities of like-minded bigots should be able to band together and spitefully discriminate against whoever the fuck they want.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: Col. Sphinx Drummond on April 18, 2017, 08:57:01 pm
Amen, brother. Communities of like-minded bigots should be able to band together and spitefully discriminate against whoever the fuck they want.
Or spitefully not discriminate as well.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: MusicMan on April 18, 2017, 08:57:46 pm
Amen, brother. Communities of like-minded bigots should be able to band together and spitefully discriminate against whoever the fuck they want.

Ok, let's stop talking about the Cardinals.


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Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: Col. Sphinx Drummond on April 18, 2017, 08:58:19 pm
So THAT'S why she kept saying to bring in a lefty!


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At least she didn't have you bat ninth.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: MusicMan on April 18, 2017, 08:59:02 pm
At least she didn't have you bat ninth.

Every time I got to first base I was lifted for a pinch runner.


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Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: HudsonHawk on April 18, 2017, 08:59:45 pm
Reddick has the biggest fucking strike zone of any hitter I've ever seen.  He must have pissed off some umpires, because he has the bat taken out of his hands more than anyone.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: HudsonHawk on April 18, 2017, 09:00:03 pm
B5:

Gurriel flies out to shallow CF
Aoki singles to RF
Springer with a swinging bunt single, Aoki to 2B
Reddick grounds into 4-6-3 double play

5-2
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: HudsonHawk on April 18, 2017, 09:01:45 pm
Fuck this PBP
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: NeilT on April 18, 2017, 09:02:18 pm
Obligatory WU little league all-star cap. 
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: HudsonHawk on April 18, 2017, 09:09:40 pm
Kalas just completely fucked up Blummer's Dumb and Dumber reference. 
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: HudsonHawk on April 18, 2017, 09:11:59 pm
 Calhoun grabs the Golden Sombrero
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: Col. Sphinx Drummond on April 18, 2017, 09:25:48 pm
5 has been the magic number, can't let 'em have any more.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: NeilT on April 18, 2017, 09:28:03 pm
Altuve needs to work harder on hitting the long ball if he plans on making the Hall of Fame.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: Col. Sphinx Drummond on April 18, 2017, 09:59:50 pm
Man, I hate when this team gets beat.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: NeilT on April 18, 2017, 10:00:47 pm
Man, I hate when this team gets beat.

It happens all too often.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: austro on April 18, 2017, 10:13:49 pm
It happens all too often.

Probably 70+ times this year.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: austro on April 18, 2017, 10:14:12 pm
Although they're not quite dead yet...
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: NeilT on April 18, 2017, 10:16:53 pm
Didn't work, but I can't think of anyone I'd rather have had at the plate.  Weird.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: Col. Sphinx Drummond on April 18, 2017, 10:18:05 pm
I fucking hate Pooholes so damn much.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: doyce7 on April 18, 2017, 10:18:49 pm
Didn't work, but I can't think of anyone I'd rather have had at the plate.  Weird.
At least with aoki you know he's gonna put the ball in play

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Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: Knoxbanedoodle on April 19, 2017, 09:52:32 am
Rough game. Seemed all the critical calls went against the good guys last night, and who knows what might have happened differently, but they really just never threatened against Nolasco, who is now 7-1 against Houston in his career. It's puzzling to me how that works even as the composition of the opposing team changes drastically from year to year.
Title: Re: Angels @ Astros April 18, 2017
Post by: Andyzipp on April 19, 2017, 10:27:54 am
Rough game. Seemed all the critical calls went against the good guys last night, and who knows what might have happened differently, but they really just never threatened against Nolasco, who is now 7-1 against Houston in his career. It's puzzling to me how that works even as the composition of the opposing team changes drastically from year to year.

How does Mark Portugal go 11-3 against the Giants for his career?  It's a damn head scratcher.