All Posts Tagged With: "Kendry Morales"
L.A. Angels Swing Into New Season With New Faces and A New Lineup
GM Tony Reagins says his Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim could still make a move or two this offseason, noting the team's lingering need for a fifth starting pitcher and a utility man off the bench. Like most of what he and his predecessor Bill Stoneman say, this sounds like another half truth. The Angels do indeed need have a few holes ... 21Jan2010 | Johnathan Kroncke | 0 comments | Continued
Angels Stay Alive, Beat Yankees 5-4
With the season on the line, the Angels needed to find a way to get back into this series. Thanks to the bats of Vladimir Guerrero, Howie Kendrick, and Jeff Mathis, the Angels pulled the series back to 2-1 and look to get even tomorrow night. Jered Weaver didn't bring his best stuff ... 19Oct2009 | Bill Seitz | 0 comments | Continued
ALDS Game 2: Angels 4, Red Sox 1
After two games, the Angels have erased the letters H and E from the word HEX. Two starts, two great pitching performances, and two days with just enough offense to get the Angels over the hump. They'll board a plane tomorrow and fly back to Boston with a 2-0 series lead in ... 10Oct2009 | Bill Seitz | 0 comments | Continued
Saunders Sharp: Angels 10, Mariners 0
For much of the season, 2008 all-star Joe Saunders was firing blanks. After finally admitting to an arm injury, and spending some time on the DL, it's Saunders' opponents who are getting blanked. In his second start since returning from the DL, Saunders tossed seven scoreless innings, allowing ... 1Sep2009 | Bill Seitz | 0 comments | Continued
Three of Four in Baltimore: Angels 8, Orioles 5
The Angels relied on the long ball at the plate, while Ervin Santana followed up last week's gem with another solid performance as the Angels closed out a four game set against the Orioles with a 8-5 victory. The Angels needed the win to keep pace with Texas ... 18Aug2009 | Bill Seitz | 0 comments | Continued
Back on the Horse: Angels down Orioles 5-1
After Friday's 16 run debacle, the Angels handed the ball over their big horse, John Lackey. Lackey responded with seven innings of one run ball, and was the beneficiary of a five run third inning as the Angels beat the Orioles 6-1. All of the game's runs came in ... 15Aug2009 | Bill Seitz | 0 comments | Continued
Clean Sweep: Angels 10, Rays 5
The Angels offense waited a little too long to give Trevor Bell a win in his major league debut, but the rookie gave the Angels a chance to win, and the Angels closed out the series with a sweep of the Tampa Bay Rays in an afternoon tilt at the Big A. ... 12Aug2009 | Bill Seitz | 0 comments | Continued
Santana Dominant in Shutout: Angels 6, Rays 0
Ervin Santana has been an enigma all season. The velocity, the movement, the ability seems to have been there all year. Yet he entered tonight's game with Tampa Bay with an ERA over seven, struggling to find any type of consistency. He looked like Santana v2.008 tonight, simply dominating Tampa. Santana held ... 11Aug2009 | Bill Seitz | 0 comments | Continued
400: Angels 8, Rays 7
Vladimir Guerrero is trying to slug his way into the hall of fame AND into a big contract for next season. He hit two home runs, including the eventual game winner in the seventh inning, the 400th of his career. Kendry Morales hit his 24th and 25th homers of the year, the ... 11Aug2009 | Bill Seitz | 0 comments | Continued
Angels Eclipsed in Series Finale by Texas
Despite a strong pitching performance from their ace John Lackey, the Angels fell to the Texas Rangers 7-0 on Sunday after an uncharacteristically poor fielding performance.
Lackey came out of the gate on fire, recording three strikeouts on the first four outs of the game. Despite throwing a season
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Angels Bested by Rangers Once Again
Facing their divisional rivals from the Lone Star State, the Angels once again had difficulties handling the Rangers' prolific offense, as they gave up 5 home runs in an 11-6 defeat on Friday night in Anaheim. Joe Saunders, who hasn’t allowed fewer than four runs in a start since ... 8Aug2009 | Joey Kaufman | 0 comments | Continued
Mike Scioscia: Angels Offense Best Since 2002
Over the past few seasons, the achilles heal for the Angels has been a lackluster offense that has failed to not only get runners on base, but to also drive them in. However, this year appears to be quite the exception for Mike Scioscia's bunch, as they currently have one of baseball's most ... 7Aug2009 | Joey Kaufman | 0 comments | Continued
Bats Arrive from Minny: Angels Club ChiSox 9-5
It took a couple of days, but the Angels finally found the offense they left in Minnesota. Combined with an adequate performance from Ervin Santana, the Angels salvaged the last of their three game set at the Cell with a 9-4 victory. The Angels got things rolling early with six runs in the first ... 6Aug2009 | Bill Seitz | 0 comments | Continued
Angels Fall to White Sox 5-4
The Angels left their bats in Minnesota. Following a series in which they pounded out over 50 hits and scored in double digits in all three games, the Angels managed only five singles against White Sox pitchers and failed to take full advantage of seven walks ... 5Aug2009 | Bill Seitz | 1 comment | Continued
Angels get out their brooms, sweep Minnesota
Kendry Morales is good; period. On Sunday, Morales homered twice and had a career-high six RBIs, as the Angels defeated the Minnesota Twins 13-4 to sweep their three-game series in Minneapolis. Morales hit the first of his two home runs in the fifth inning, a three-run shot, and followed ... 2Aug2009 | Joey Kaufman | 0 comments | Continued
Game 100: Angels 9; Indians 3
The Angels hit the century mark with their winning percentage at an even .600 as they took the rubber game against the Indians in an afternoon tilt. John Lackey continued to round into form, tossing seven innings and allowing one run while striking out eight. 70 of his ... 29Jul2009 | Bill Seitz | 0 comments | Continued
Angels fall to Cleveland despite offensive outburst
Despite a two home run night by Kendry Morales and a back-to-back-to-back home run outburst by Juan Rivera, Mike Napoli and Morales, the Angels fell to the Cleveland Indians 8-6 for their second consecutive loss but just their third in the past fifteen games. Even with the offense enjoying success with the longball, ... 28Jul2009 | Joey Kaufman | 0 comments | Continued
Arte Moreno: ‘We’re keeping our options open’
With the major league baseball trade deadline vastly approaching, the Angels are one of several teams that have been rumored to be seriously pursing Toronto's Roy Halladay, Cleveland's Cliff Lee, or any other top of the line starting pitcher. Yesterday, Angels owner Arte Moreno confirmed the suggestion that the club is seriously interested ... 24Jul2009 | Joey Kaufman | 0 comments | Continued
Bats come alive in Angels’ late inning surge over Yankees
Trailing 4-0 early in the ball game after an erratic Joe Saunders allowed five runs in five innings, the Angels knew they would need some of the bats to come alive if they were going to spoil Mark Teixeira's return to Anaheim. Luckily, they did find some power in ... 11Jul2009 | Joey Kaufman | 0 comments | Continued
Obviously place-kicker is an important aspect of the game. But if you're short scholarships and need to be more ...
Scott we can see you are a hater and if the trainer knew then how come he didn't report it. ...
@ Scott: I couldn't have said it better myself!