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My decision to stay up way too late watching baseball was entirely validated by Bo Bichette's towering, game-changing three-run home run in the top of the seventh with Espinal and Springer aboard. It was the last thing I saw, but from there I had the Fan 590 radio call in my ear the rest of the way, Ben Wagner my guide through Yimi's flawless seventh, Swanson's hard-contact (an Ohtani double) and loud-outs eighth, and Romano's easy ninth (four saves so far, with an ERA of precisely 0.00). Chris Bassitt's second start cannot be seen as anything but a success, following a career-worst outing in St. Louis: by statistical definition, and also just by any reasonable standard, three runs through six complete is indeed a start of quality. It must be said that it was a little frustrating to watch, though: Bassitt has eight pitches, and hadn't really worked with Alejandro Kirk before (Jansen was ill last night), and there were pitch-com issues, and it just felt like he was up against the pitch clock/everybody's patience all night. But a good result, for sure! And maybe he'll just settle in with regard to the rest of it? Aside from Trout's first-inning, two-run homer, the Angels really didn't do a whole lot of anything. Looking at the box score I see that while Ohtani and Trout combined for three-for-eight with that home run, the rest of the Angels went . . . oh no they went oh-for-twenty-two. Dear me.
Oh hey also: it was the Angels home opener, which meant an even more ludicrously late start than I'd expected (fair enough; everybody gets a home opener), but it also meant Vladimir Guerrero Sr. (aka Dadimir Guerrero) throwing out the first pitch! Pretty neat! I will attach a nice photo of this below!
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| no fewer than two Hall of Famers (let's make it three!) |
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