Angels News: Joe Maddon Encourages Angels To Scoreboard-Watch, Gets Ejected
After splitting a weather-imposed doubleheader on Tuesday in Houston, Angels manager Joe Maddon tried bravely to explain his team's struggles early in this preciously short 2020 MLB season. He doesn't want the players focusing on their stats. He doesn't want…
Recap: Reeling Angels Fall To Astros At Halfway Mark
Joe Maddon was still talking bravely before Monday's game between the Angels and the Astros a Houston's Minute Maid Park. "We're going to get this turned around," Maddon, the Angels' skipper, said. "But you don't turn a battleship on a…
Recap: Angels’ Bats, Bundy Wilt In Heat Against Giants
The fact that the Angels' as offense took the afternoon off on Tuesday wasn't any great surprise 24 days into this strange, shortened season. The fact that burly right-hander Dylan Bundy would join the offense in a siesta was definitely…
Angels News: SS David Fletcher’s Great Play Is MLB’s Best
David Fletcher probably isn't going to win any MVP awards, but the Angels' Swiss Army knife defender and leadoff man's jaw-dropping play at shortstop Saturday was named the MLB Play of the Week. "You have to say it's as good…
Freeway Series Recap: Angels Fall In 10 Innings As Dodgers Cash In
The Angels came out on the wrong side Saturday night of the crapshoot that is known as extra-innings baseball in the COVID-19 pandemic. After a three-hour battle in regulation innings that highlighted the best of the star-powered drama of Southern…
Angels News: Questions On Simmons, Upton, Lineup
Andrelton Simmons, the Angels' acrobatic shortstop, is getting closer to returning from the injured list. Simmons' return should be good news, but it does present manager Joe Maddon with several lineup quandaries. Leadoff man and sparkplug David Fletcher has been…
Recap: Bundy Dominates A’s And Angels Power Up, 6-0
It was expected that the 2020 Angels would pack a powerful offense. Veteran right-hander Dylan Bundy was expected to pitch quality innings. It wasn't expected that Bundy would suddenly be one of the major leagues' most dominant starting pitchers. Bundy…
Recap: Punchless Angels Waste Sandoval’s Fine Performance
Angels manager Joe Maddon is maintaining his hitters are on the verge of greatness, that's these current struggles are only a matter of timing. "You look at the numbers, you know they're going to get better," he said. But they…
Recap: Angels Kick One Away In Texas, 4-3
The 2020 Angels should be built for contention for a postseason spot in this year's 60-game race to MLB's one-time 16-team playoffs. But they've got to do the little things -- and the big things -- better than this. Sloppy…
Recap: Angels Flex Muscle But Bullpen Can’t Hold On
These days it doesn't seem to matter how much power the Angels can pack into their lineup. Two days after returning to the club after the birth of his son, Mike Trout belted a pair of home runs. And the…
