Tag: Los Angeles Angels

Recap: Angels’ Pitching Battered Again In Giants’ Rout

Angels manager Joe Maddon has been preaching all season long that his team will only be as competitive as his pitching allows. For yet another yet, the Angels hurlers never really gave their team a chance Thursday night. The San…

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Angels News: Brian Goodwin’s Colorful Cleats Up For Auction

Angels fans can find all sorts of game-worn and autographed memorabilia on the Angels Auctions website -- usually with very high price tags. Jerseys worn in games by the likes of Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani are big-ticket items, usually…

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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…

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Angels News: Top Pick Detmers Could Be A Callup

Reid Detmers, the prized University of Louisville left-hander the Angels drafted 10th overall in the 2020 draft, was considered "major-league ready" by Angels scouting personnel prior to the draft. In the bizarre scenario of 2020 coronavirus baseball, Detmers' time may…

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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…

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Freeway Series Recap: Dodgers Tee Off On Angels Pitching In Sweep

Joe Maddon sounded defiant, if not a little bit desperate, after the Angels were beaten 8-3 by the crosstown rival Dodgers, who completed a sweep of the Halos in Anaheim. The defiant part? Maddon insisted the Angels aren't about to…

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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…

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Freeway Series Recap: Kershaw, Bellinger Too Much For Angels In Opener

For an hour or so, Angels neophyte Patrick Sandoval and Dodgers longtime ace Clayton Kershaw were locked in a duel of seeing how many worms they could kill in the Angels Stadium infield. But the comparisons stopped there. In the…

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Recap: Oakland’s Laureano Thwarts Angels’ Bid For Sweep

Joe Maddon was wishing Wednesday that the wheels of justice at Major League Baseball headquarters were moving faster. Ramon Laureano, the Oakland A's' defensive wiz in center fielder, has been suspended for six games for his part in a brawl…

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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…

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