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I Stand Corrected - Game 48: Angels at Jays

Los Angeles Angels at Toronto Blue Jays, May 21, 2008 7:07 PM EDT


Last night was pretty frustrating. McGowan wasn't great but generally got the job done, but the Jays just couldn't convert with runners on. The last two innings were particularly frustrating. In the 8th the Jays loaded the bases with no out after some great at-bats, only to watch Matt Stairs strike out and Shannon Stewart bounce into a double play. The 9th was no better, where the Jays loaded the bases against Francisco Rodriguez but Aaron Hill popped up on a 1-0 count and Alexis Rios struck out looking on a 3-2 count (after having been 3-0).

Well, the Jays have been playing well, so let's not dwell on one bad game. Marcum pitches today against Jon Garland and it'll be interesting to see how Marcum does after 2 days rest following his one-inning rain-abridged performance in the city of brotherly love.

I will be around only for the second half of tonight's game, as I have a softball game after work. Not sure who we're playing, but they're about to get smacked down. Except probably not.

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Marcum gets the grounder

Scutaro makes a nice backhand play

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 7:10 PM EDT reply actions  

Good morning, good afternoon, and good night Matthews

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 7:11 PM EDT reply actions  

Guerrero with a 2 out solo shot

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 7:14 PM EDT reply actions  

And the Angels play-by-play guys are taking credit

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 7:14 PM EDT up reply actions  

Overbay has a Buckner moment

on a hard shot to first

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 7:16 PM EDT reply actions  

Broken bat popup to Rolen

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 7:18 PM EDT reply actions  

I feel like I'm paying mlb.tv a lot of money

so I’d appreciate it if they didn’t spam me with Nissan Live Sets At Yahoo! Music ads.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 7:21 PM EDT reply actions  

Wilk breaks his bat and flies to center

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 7:21 PM EDT reply actions  

Hill grounds out to second

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 7:22 PM EDT reply actions  

The stadium gun is registering some pitches in the 60s

I’m pretty sure neither Marcum nor Garland is tossing that soft.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 7:23 PM EDT reply actions  

Rios draws the 2 out walk

Stealing?

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 7:25 PM EDT reply actions  

Rolen singles to right, Rios to third

RISP time

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 7:28 PM EDT reply actions  

Stairs singles to right

Rios scores! 1 for 1!

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 7:30 PM EDT reply actions  

Overbay strikes out swinging on a full count

1 for 2, 2 stranded

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 7:35 PM EDT reply actions  

Kotchman grounds out to Hill's right

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 7:38 PM EDT reply actions  

Stew makes a jumping catch against the wall

and what was almost Napoli’s 11th

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 7:40 PM EDT reply actions  

Strikes out S-Rod

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 7:41 PM EDT reply actions  

Stew grounds to third

Figgins bobbles it and still had time

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 7:44 PM EDT reply actions  

Zaun breaks his bat and pops up to the pitcher

who was almost at the cutout at first

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 7:46 PM EDT reply actions  

Scoot grounds to first on the first pitch

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 7:46 PM EDT reply actions  

Grounder to Hill from Izturis

Pretty much a carbon copy of the Kotchman one

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 7:49 PM EDT reply actions  

Marcum 10 for 10 in first pitch strikes

but he seems to be going way outside on every 0-2 pitch.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 7:50 PM EDT reply actions  

Walk to Figgins on the 3-2

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 7:51 PM EDT reply actions  

And another walk to Matthews

With Vlad coming up. I’m nervous.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 7:56 PM EDT reply actions  

Vlad homers on the first pitch

Game over. I was nervous about Vlad in this game, because he’s such a notorious bad-ball hitter.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 7:57 PM EDT reply actions  

Marcum strands a single with a strikeout and a popup

but it’s not going to matter at this point.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 8:00 PM EDT reply actions  

Wilk draws the leadoff walk

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 8:04 PM EDT reply actions  

And Hill takes a friend

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 8:05 PM EDT reply actions  

Rios catches S-Rod in between hops

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 8:07 PM EDT reply actions  

Ruled an error

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 8:08 PM EDT up reply actions  

Rios up to second on a passed ball

Rolen with a 1-2 count to drive him in during RISP time

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 8:10 PM EDT reply actions  

Figgins throws out Rolen on a slow roller

1 for 3

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 8:11 PM EDT reply actions  

Marcum works a 1-2-3

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 8:17 PM EDT reply actions  

And now mlb.tv is dead

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 8:20 PM EDT reply actions  

I'm getting the other games on 'mosaic'....course they won't let me watch the Jays....

even though the game isn’t on tv….they’ve also blocked the fan audio….listening to the Angels radio

by Tom Dakers on May 21, 2008 8:21 PM EDT reply actions  

Long single for Zaun

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 8:34 PM EDT reply actions  

Scoot manages to avoid taking a friend

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 8:35 PM EDT reply actions  

Hill singles to left

RISP time with 2 out again for… oh. Rios.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 8:38 PM EDT reply actions  

2 for 4

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 8:41 PM EDT reply actions  

2 for 5

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 8:43 PM EDT reply actions  

Overbay with the stand-up double

RISP time

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 8:51 PM EDT reply actions  

Zaun ricochets one off Garland

3 for 7

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 8:55 PM EDT reply actions  

Scoot singles

RISP time for our painfully underachieving top of the order.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 8:58 PM EDT reply actions  

Wilk robbed of a double down the 1B line

3 for 8

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 9:01 PM EDT reply actions  

Almost turned a great double play

still got the lead runner

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 9:09 PM EDT reply actions  

Single for Figgins....runners on first and second

Marcums out but the Angel guys won’t say who’s coming in…a lefty

by Tom Dakers on May 21, 2008 9:12 PM EDT reply actions  

Tallet

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 9:13 PM EDT up reply actions  

Tallet's good vs. righties

and especially good against switch hitters because they choose to face him righty.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 9:14 PM EDT up reply actions  

One pitch one out

and the Angels TV guys pronounce Tallet kinda like towelette.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 9:15 PM EDT reply actions  

At least one!

Okay, exactly one.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 9:16 PM EDT up reply actions  

Hill beats the throw for an infield single

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 9:19 PM EDT reply actions  

Rios singles!

Give me an R
Give me an I
Give me an S
Give me a P!!!

by SuckaMD on May 21, 2008 9:21 PM EDT reply actions  

Wild pitch

I guess. Looks like they thought it was a foul ball for a moment

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 9:22 PM EDT reply actions  

3 for 9

Rolen strikes out

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 9:24 PM EDT reply actions  

Another double play to waste a runner at third

3 for 10

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 9:28 PM EDT reply actions  

I don't think I can bear to watch the rest of this one

I’m going to games night.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 21, 2008 9:28 PM EDT reply actions  

We need some runs......

the thought was that Gibby was going to be fired till they started winning a couple of weeks back….I wonder how far from being fired he is now. Isn’t fair really….he didn’t sign a bunch of use-to-be-good hitters

by Tom Dakers on May 21, 2008 9:35 PM EDT reply actions  

Zaun walks

Perfect set up. DP situation with RISP

by SuckaMD on May 21, 2008 9:41 PM EDT reply actions  

How is it possible

To leave 17 men on base?

Plus, we have grounded into 3 DPs which eliminate 3 other runners who were on base but not stranded because they got out on the DP.

by SuckaMD on May 21, 2008 9:47 PM EDT reply actions  

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