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AL West champs in playoffs for first time in 19 years as a franchise
For the first time in 19 seasons, the California Angels are in the postseason. They clinched the 1979 American League West division thanks to consecutive home wins over the Royals on Monday and Tuesday of the season’s final week.
Nolan Ryan overcame three unearned runs early to beat Kansas City, 4-3 on Monday. Then on Tuesday, catcher Brian Downing...
It certainly sounds as if the Angels are ready to shake things up after a brutal run of disappointing results.
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“We’re not winning games, so something is not right in our organization,” team president John Carpino said.
Angels president John Carpino and manager Joe Maddon held a conference call with reporters on Wednesday, with the most pressing topic at season’s end the club’s search for a new general manager.
Billy Eppler was fired on Sunday after the completion of his fifth losing season in five years on the job. As for his...
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Tommy La Stella helped prevent history, so that’s something
Since we can’t watch any current Angels in the MLB playoffs, let’s check in on the next-best thing: seeing how former Angels are faring in the 2020 postseason.
Tommy La Stella, traded to the A’s at the trade deadline, had the headlining moment, singling to open the seventh inning, breaking up Lucas Giolito’s perfect game. The Whit Sox prevailed in that one, 4-1.
Matt Shoemaker started Game...
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The postseason is here!
The Angels season is over, of course, but there are plenty of MLB playoff games to keep us occupied. We won’t get the full slate of eight games until Wednesday (and maybe Thursday too!), but on Tuesday we have all four American League wild card round series to give us wall-to-wall baseball.
The wild card round is a best-of-3 series, with every game at the home park of the higher seed.
Postseason action gets started with the No. 6...
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They both were fantastic for the Angels this month
The Angels’ season is over, but they closed it out with some awards. They were one of the hottest teams in baseball for the month of September, and their production didn’t go unnoticed. Not one, but two players took home honors for the monthly MLB awards.
We’ll start with Jared Walsh, who took home American League Rookie of the Month honors. Walsh very well could have won the Player of the...
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This season ended like the previous five have, with the Angels on the outside looking in to October.
The Angels managed to stay alive until Friday night, but a weekend sweep punctuated a fifth straight losing season in Anaheim. For the final week, they split six games, beating the Rangers and Padres, but losing all three to the Dodgers.
Batter of the weekMax Stassi homered twice on Tuesday and was 7-for-16 (.438) for the week, ending a nice rebound...
Even if Ohtani doesn’t pitch again, he’ll still have ample value as a hitter.
Shohei Ohtani’s status as a two-way player is in real doubt for the first time since he moved to MLB, but the Los Angeles Angels star refuses to give up just yet.
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Angels star plans on both hitting and pitching in 2021
The 2020 season was rough for the Angels, but it was especially trying for Shohei Ohtani, whose third major league season was marked by slumps and injuries.
Heading into this year, there was buzz surrounding Ohtani, who was recovered from Tommy John surgery and expected to be the dynamic two-way player he showed for the first few months of his rookie season in 2018. Instead, he made no such impact...
Eppler was named general manager of the Angels in October 2015. They failed to make the playoffs over the five-year span.
The Angels had a losing record in all five seasons of Eppler’s tenure from 2016-2020. The best they did was get to 80-82.
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5 straight losing seasons led to Eppler’s ousting
After five losing seasons in five years, Billy Eppler is out as general manager of the Angels. The team announced on Sunday that Eppler was fired, with one year remaining on his contract.
Sunday’s loss gave the Angels a 26-34 record in the abbreviated 2020 season, the .433 winning percentage the worst for the franchise since 1999.
The press release from the Angels touted some of Eppler’s deals,...
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Angels finish 26-34
The Angels got swept in the Freeway Series to end a miserable season, and finished with their worst winning percentage in 21 years.
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.433 winning percentage is Angels’ worst since 1999
The Angels ended their season by getting swept in Los Angeles, dropping Sunday’s game 5-0 to the Dodgers at Dodger Stadium.
Patrick Sandoval took the loss, allowing three runs (two earned) with three walks and three strikeouts. Adding injury to insult, he left with a trainer in the third inning, suffering a left calf strain on what should have been the final out of the inning.
Jahmai Jones singled...
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Trout has won team MVP 9 times in his nine full seasons
Death, taxes, and Mike Trout winning the Angels MVP award. These are the constants in our lives — even when everything else is out of whack in 2020. For the ninth straight year, Angels players voted Trout the team MVP, the team announced on Sunday.
Trout this season hit .281/.390/.603 with 17 home runs and 46 home runs in 53 games, and ranked fourth in FanGraphs WAR (2.6). That’s the most...
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Game 60 of 60
The Angels finish up the season on Sunday against the Dodgers in Los Angeles, with Patrick Sandoval starting the series and season finale.
Game infoTime: 12:10 p.m.
TV: Fox Sports West
He’s currently the third base coach for the Astros
Former Angels outfielder and current Astros third base coach Gary Pettis has been diagnosed with multiple myeloma and will miss the rest of the 2020 season. The good news is that he is expected to make a full recovery.
Pettis hasn’t coached a game for Houston since September 15. He was sidelined with hip discomfort. Tests conducted to find out the cause of the discomfort led to the diagnosis of multiple myeloma.
Here was the statement...
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They almost pulled off the rally
The Angels nearly completed a ninth-inning comeback on Saturday night. Entering the inning, they trailed by three runs. They were able to get the tying run to third inning, but their rally fell just short. Shohei Ohtani grounded out to end the game, as the Angels fell to the Dodgers, 7-6.
Dylan Bundy was scheduled to make the start for the Angels on Saturday. He hat a cut on his finger, and the team figured it would make...
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Angels are 0-5 vs. Dodgers this season
Julio Teheran needed 52 pitches to complete his one inning. Jahmai Jones and Elliot Soto got their first major league hits back-to-back, but the Angels’ comeback effort fell short in a loss in Los Angeles.