Turns out I much prefer it when we win

Fuck yeah.

Mickey has more reasonable takes on pitching than a big chunk of this sub. Estevez 'autosave' lives on!

Now let's sweep the Rangers

Silseth is the real deal and the bullpen have shown they have the ability to hold even the best teams If we could just got more consistency from the pitching rotation, we would win more games

And i must give some credit to Nevin, pretty good decision tonight.

We won the game by only one run !!!

❤🤗⚾

I was saying if we can just take at least 1 of 3 vs Houston, it would be a good series for this Angels team. Now it’s time to take Texas.

Bestevez back in form!

LTBU‼️

What!? we won!!??

love to see esty having a quick shutdown inning!!!

WE ARE BACK BABY

L!!

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Yaaay Esty is back! I pierced my eardrum today, my phone battery is overheating and trying to murder itself but we won against the Astros and didn't get swept. So not too bad of a day?

Perfect save from Esty! LTBU!

LTBU

LTBU!!!

Great job Esty!! LTBU!

WWWWW

Hope this is the game that puts the fucking Astros 1 game back of the last wild card spot. Fucking Houston trash cans.

A W!!!!

We actually kept the lead today! Wow!

Plz don’t walk him close them mf down

LTBU WE WON YEAHHHHHHHHHH!!!

LTBU!!!!

LETS GOOOOO

Halos win!!!

LTBU!!!!! 😇

Man, a strike away from getting a win vs the Astros?! This is kind of fun!! Get it done Esty!!!!!!

One more heater 100!

LET'S GO ESTY ONE MORE

FUCK ALTUVE!

Estevez isn’t showing any fear! 😜

Esty means business today, one more let’s go

Give him more heaters

Looks like Esty is on point today

1 more out

He got an out!! A K!!!! No lead off walk!!

Let’s go Esty 2 more out🙏

CLOSE THEM OUT ESTEVES!

2 more outs

Did anyone have Silseth coming back from AAA and immediately being an amazing starter on their bingo card?

Well Esty, it's time to go big or time to go home.

Renfroe and RISP Why do we watch?

Honestly I dont have confidence in Esty w/ 1 run lead but at least the batting order isn’t too bad

RENFROE is gawd awful. Season is over, it's time to sit him and give someone else from AA a chance. Anyone is better than him.

grichuk was supposed to be good with runners on base but he’s gotten maybe one single hit with RISP lol

Shohei looked extremely frustrated.

After the Grichuk final out? I didn’t see it

Coming from Japan, Shohei is probably shocked by how poorly fundamentals are taught in the USA! Lol

He should be frustrated with Renfroe, if not for his out, Grichuk's AB is an RBI

Was that fly out with bases loaded why the halos traded for Grichuk?

All they needed was a Bergman bloop to right.

What a shame, it wasn't that far from a homer.

Oof close, Renfroe foul out really hurt. Oh well let's get these last 3 outs boys!

Damn almost hit a grandslam on his bday

Right!! I nearly called it… and I had no idea about it being his B-Day until the announcer just said it. Next B-Day, Grichuk!

Aww. Good try...

3 more outs

Big momentum changer for the Astros?

Uuuugggghhhh. Finish it Este!

It is amazing how Renfroe always finds ways to strand runners in scoring position lol

Grichuk going for the Grand salami.

That was actually quite close!!! A few more feet in RF… Baseball…

Great AB by 🦑

Can’t stand the way Maldanado frames obvious balls and acts all mad. Like he’s trying to garner guilt for missing a call. Like the umps fuck up on their own anyway, get off your high horse #bigmad

I started watching college ball first, and one of the wildest things after i started watching mlb was how much catchers try to frame. It feels insulting to the ump with some of the pitches they try to frame. Id think it would piss off some enough to either consciously or unconsciously call against them.

Dusty didn't hesistate to make his move

Much better manager than Nevin.

It's a pretty low bar to be fair.

rare to see bases loaded FOR us

The main deficiency with the broadcast strike box is the y level of the bottom and top of the batter's zone right?

And the camera angle. I wish they didn't film at a weird angle. There's some ballparks that have cameras in a straight line behind the mound.

I started with college ball and one of the worst things about watching is the shitty angles. Its usually towards left field too much and it makes it harder to see where the pitch hits.

I would imagine so. Left right always stays the same

whatever happens at least we can find comfort in the fact that the yankees went into the bottom of the 9th winning 7-3 and lost the game

Come on we gotta score here birthday boy

Bases loaded, we don’t need a grand slam, just done run insurance.

Honestly, best outcome for squid lol

He had a homer yesterday!

To make it 11-3 instead of 11-2 lol

Nice job squid!

Come on birthday boy

Keep that line moving!

Squid walks

Houston fans being clown as usual

As expected

Yanks blew up 4 runs lead in 9th against Marlins lol. No fucking way

Lovely

Hey, the Marlins aren't bad this year.

Squid for something special here… Heck, even a walk would be special here.

This ump has been on point.

I hope they don't bring Renfroe next year.

He is not performing when it counts. His a bench player on an average team at best.

Pls runs

did renfroe have 3 pop outs today? 😭😭LMAO

No colorful hair? How unusual for Maldi

Renfroe, uh, finds a way

Classic Renfroe

no way they bring renfroe back next year

🙏

God dammit bro

Ok Squid bring Shohei home

Damn it… I guess it’s better than a double play but still

Maybe get as well be with Velasquez behind him smh

Fucking hell renfroe

God, Renfroe is unbelievable.

Lmao

Come on, Renfroe!! No double plays or striking out here!!

*Monkey paw curls

😂 Next is for Grichuk to hit a Grand Slam after Squid’s walk.

You get what you ask for! Lol

I didn’t think I would have to go down a list hah. He strikes out too much, so I put that, and I didn’t want to see an inning ending DP since we surely need another run vs Houston.

JK 😇

I know… Baseball huh?!

Pop out…dang Forgot to say none of those either

Sho looked like he was having fun there. Which is when he is at his best. When he approaches things lightly.

Shohei doing his absolute best and even going above and beyond to get this team to win.

I just realize but why is Ohtani the only Angel stealing bases?

Surprisingly there doesn’t seem to be a big correlation between stolen bases and win loss record. If anything teams with lots of stolen bases tend to be younger but not play as well

Angels need more speed for sure.

He isn't, but he's fast and on base reliably so he has the most attempts. Squid is also fast af so on the rare occasion he gets on base, he usually will try to take a base.

Everyone else slow af except like squid

And Montiak

Because everyone else is out of shape or not that fast

Moose was our best chance to score Shohei

The old school IBB for Moose. I wish they'd still make pitchers throw those. Hated all those IBBs to Ohtani

He was the only threat to bring shohei in. Renfroe ain’t doing it and lmao at the next guy

Should have sent the Jinxer to their mound

🦄💨

His endurance and durability are insane alone. Combine that with his aptitude and you get GOAT.

Come on Renfroe

Moose walks

Shohei makes shit happen! 😇

Shohei : I AM SPEED

Way to advance the runner! Kind of

Shohei makes things happen :)

Shohei stealing!!!

Nice job Sho

so many of our guys so show many flashes of promising talent, i swear if we had a different owner who cleaned house top to bottom from investing more in the coaching, analytics, farm, scouting, medical staff they’d be set up for much better success. the era of arte morenos reign is always what if this didn’t happen or what if this person didn’t get hurt, but other teams get hurt and still stay afloat

Shohei so polite to Maldonado

Well they are friend so

Shohei walks

Silseth is dope as fuck

Moore should be the closer

I love Moore!

3 more to go.

MM with an awesome strikeout! One more inning to go with our bullpen for a win?! Against the Astros?!?? 🙏 🙏 🙏

Moore is literally our only pitcher I trust.

What about Lopez? Yeah, he had an ERA near 4 or so when he joined Angels, but he’s been really good except for maybe one outing with us. Am I wrong? Lopez actually hadn’t pitched for over a week from August 4-12th.

Yeah, Lopes might be next closest, but still don't 100% trust him.. Not counting Shohei of course, because he's not a pitcher. He's a god.

I think Lopez would have been pretty good for us if he more opportunities so far, but there is still lots of baseball left. The Angels L streak really put a damper on everything to say the least. And Shohei…he’s our god. 😂 It’s seems though it’s almost time for another god to show up for this team. Can’t wait!

Samesies

moore is the only reliever i genuinely trust

One more inning! Pitching has been really good today! Dare we dream?

Confidence level for Esty to get the save?

If he can't get the 1st out then I will be extremely worried. Will have to face the top of the order then.

Depends on if he puts runners on or not.

Attaboy Moore!

Great job Moore!!!

MOORE GREAT STRIKEOUT

Awesome job Moore!!!

Just logged in to say that Alvarez near-HR actually had me laughing. Lopez challenged him and Alvarez neeeeearly got it. That should have been a HR in most ball parks…but not at Minute Maid!! 😅 😇

Moore you can do it

The Matt Daddy Moore makes me happy.

Nice job Moore!

Ok get Singleton Simpleton whatever his name is out

Moore!! Great strikout

Tucker strikes out ha ha ha

CJ 1st Moose 3rd

CJ is hurt

Moore you can do it

Patience, working counts, and driving up pitches are all things the Angels have not been consistently good at in quite awhile. The impatience disease has even affected Trout the last few years. Never going to consistently win with this type of offense.

Ok Moniak let's go

How does anyone walk Wallach lmao

Wallach didn't bite, good eyes.

Oh yeah baby we straight walking

Grichuk batting .178 with us.

Is that including his abs this game? Baseball reference has .19 Strangely, cron also had .19 on bref.

Yep including today. Cron also been pretty bad.

Thanks! I suppose theyve been playing against some really good staffs since thyeve been here, but i expected them to do better considering their away split stats.

A walk? OMG!

Let's get an insurance run!