Sunday, June 12, 2005

Angels 4; Mets 3

Well, this was a nice surprise after yesterday's giveaway. Pretty much a solid if unspectacular game. The defense was good, the pitching was good, the hitting was timely, and the bullpen did it's job.

Great job by Peralta to come in knowing he was probably only going to face one batter, and get the strikout. You really can't do much better than Shields did. When he has that two seamer going, and he's getting the low strike, he's really good.

It's really easy to be down on Finley after what he did last night, and the two double plays he hit into in his first two at bats didn't make him look any better, but credit where credit's due. That was a huge double he hit. And great at bat by D-Mac to put the ball in play and drive in the tying run. Big enough for me to overlook the big strikeout that came later.

Anyway, not much else to report on this one. They let one get away yesterday, and they won one that, on paper, they probably shouldn't have today. It all evens out. 6-6 on a twelve game trip is fairly respectable, especially against the teams they played. Sure, there were games that they let get away, but that's going to happen, especially on the road. Great trip? No, but it could have been worse.

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