“This is de history of de Angels”. Despite having one of their best seasons in the past 10 years, the Angles 2-1 series loss against the Colorado Rockies perfectly sums up how inept this organization is with expectations and hopes.
Only the Angles can win a game 25-1 but still end up losing the series.
The Los Angeles Angels have once again proven they are the biggest chokers when it comes to expectations as despite beating the Rockies by a franchise record score of 25-1, Los Angeles still ended up losing the series 2-1 to a Rockies team that’s bottom of the NL West and has 11 wins fewer. And, to be honest, no one really should have expected anything different.
Betting on the Angles to accomplish the high expectations always set on them is like hoping your dad comes back after he went out to buy a gallon of milk.
I really don’t know what else to say about the Angles other than this team is the Tottenham Hotspurs of the MLB. Whenever you think they have a chance of achieving greatness and finally stepping out of the Dodgers shadow by assembling a great roster with two of the league’s most talented players, they always fall flat on their face in humiliating fashion. And this series against the Rockies proved it.
Putting aside the Angles and Rockies, respective, records for a moment, there’s no way in hell this Angles team, a side consisting of Mike Trout, Shohei Ohtani, Hunter Renfroe, Brandon Drury, Taylor Ward, and Patrick Sandoval, should be losing 2/3 games to a Rockies team with three of their four starting pitchers posting an ERA of 4.50 or worse, only one player (Ryan McMahon) has double-digit home runs, and is in the Bottom-5 of total home runs scored (tied-25th in HR scored with 72).
Yet, if you take out the 25-1 game, the Rockies outscored the Angles 11-7 as they beat them 7-4 in Game 1 and 4-3 today in Game 3 of the series.
Obviously, this series isn’t indicative of either the Angles or Rockies seasons as the Angles are currently sitting 3rd in the AL West with a 41-37 record and the Rockies are 5th in the NL West with a 18-37 record, yet it is indicative as to how Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde this Angles team is.
I just don’t know how the Angles can go from losing 7-4 and giving up 15 hits in one game, score a franchise-record 25 runs and only allow a single run in the next game, and then lose a low-scoring nail-bitter to the same team in the third game. You’d be forgiven for thinking that it was Ohtani’s brilliant pitching (Ohtani season stats: 6-3 record, 3.14 ERA, 37 ER, 117 SO) was the reason the Angles won 25-1, but you’d be wrong as he didn’t pitch a single game in this series.
Yes, he did play in all three games as a designated hitter and racked up 6 hits, 3 runs, and 2 home runs, but he didn’t impact the Angels pitching whatsoever. The Angles pitchers are just incompetent as only Ohtani has an ERA of at least 3.15 or less of the five Angles pitchers who have pitched 65 innings or more this year.
Obviously, the Rockies aren’t making the playoffs, but its’ way too early to tell if the Angles will finally get over the hump and break their 8-year playoff drought. And if they crumble and falter under the pressures of success once again, then LA can kiss Shohei goodbye as he’s definitely not sticking around for another season.
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