ANGELS POSTCAST: Jansen, Halos give up EIGHT RUNS in 9th, lose 7th straight 9-1 to Detroit Tigers

ANGELS POSTCAST: Jansen, Halos give up EIGHT RUNS in 9th, lose 7th straight 9-1 to Detroit Tigers

This is the Angels Post Cast, your instant game reaction for the Los Angeles Angels, part of the Locked On podcast network. Your team every day. Hello Halo Nation. Hello Halo hopefuls. And welcome back to the latest edition of the Locked on Angels postcast. Coming at you live as always after every single Angels game, angels, whatever you want to call it at this point, right here on the Locked On Angels YouTube channel and after the fact, both on the channel and wherever the heck you get the Locked on Angels audio podcast feed. If you don’t know who I am, what’s going on everybody? My name is Gavin Carlson, former credential journalist in the LA area. spent four years writing articles, conducting interviews, traveling all across the country with the Daily Breuin, and now in year two with the Locked On Network, where it is your team every day. Our team is the Angels. Unfortunately, I mean, what else can you say at this point other than unfortunately unfortunately our team is the Angels who have continued now in a sevengame losing streak to create new ways to lose baseball games. New ways. New ways. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a game like this where it is one to one in the top of the ninth inning. And you leave the ball game getting blown out. Eight runs. Eight runs. And only the Angels, only the Angels could take one of the greatest closers in MLB history. And no, I know it’s not 2017. Okay, I know it’s 2025. And I know this is not the Kenley Jansen that was in his prime at all, but let’s not forget that Kenley Jansen had not allowed a run this season. And he and the rest of the guys that come in after him absolutely lay 18 eggs. They lay every egg ever. An absolute embarrassment. An absolute embarrassment. And Angels win, you are so right. What can we say anymore? I don’t know. I don’t know what we can say anymore at this point. It’s just absolutely baffling. It’s baffling. But before we actually at this point, this happens every show where I get distracted and I just start losing it before I even really kick off the show. So, let me kick off the show. Shout out to everybody in here. Um, obviously for those who don’t know, as I do see uh I’m laughing in the comments here as Angel Antonia says, “Is that the childhood room?” all. Yes, it is. You’re exposing me. Um, Andrew in here saying, “I love you, Gavin. This helps me cope.” I love you all, too. Um, but yes, I am in the childhood home. I’m back in the Bay Area. Um, obviously, like I said on the last show, the plan was for me to be in Anaheim at the Big A. Uh, enjoying this game, although enjoying is quite the stretch, but suffering together in person with you all. Obviously, for those who don’t know, I had to come up to the Bay Area for some family stuff, but uh we will do a meet and greet at another game. Um I I would have loved to be there tonight uh suffering with everybody. Uh but we’ll suffer together uh the next time we go to a game because you at this point there’s no doubt whether or not you will suffer. It’s just in which way will you suffer. Will it be having two hits while the Pirates get 18 hits and you lose by 10 or will it be a 1-1 game going in the ninth inning and then you still lose by eight runs. That’s the only thing that’s uncertain coming into baseball games. Not suffering. That’s guaranteed. It’s just how you suffer with the Los Angeles Angels. But shout out to everybody in here. Uh, thanks for all the kind words. Uh, Larry, Angels, win, everyone else saying, you know, wishing the family well. I really appreciate it. Um, but yes, let’s jump right into this one. You guys know the drill at this point. There’s no need for a player of the game. There’s no need to tell you what the heck I’m talking about. Let’s go right to everyone’s favorite segment, the turning point. Time to reveal where the game was won or lost. It’s the turning point. And unless you live under a rock, you already know what the darn turning point is. is the Angels come into this ball game losers of six in a row. I don’t even know why I paused there. You come in losers of six in a row. You’re able to steal a run in the top or in the bottom of the first via Zack Netto. You give up a run in the top of the seventh. Not going to act like that was the turning point or anything cuz it’s still a 1-1 ball game going into the ninth inning. And what do the Angels do? I mean, there’s plenty of debates that be can be had of, you know, bullpen management throughout this losing streak. Uh even in this game, some people would have liked to see Seraniano continue even though he was getting up there in the ‘9s in terms of pitches. Obviously Johnson comes in and gives up that run in the seventh that ties the game. Zephr John’s able to have a perfect eighth inning uh with the strikeout. And then you bring in Kenley Jansen. And this is what I mean when I say it’s hard. It’s hard because yes, Ron Washington is running a circus. He is. But it’s hard when even when he makes the right decision, it’s still a circus. And that’s why the thumbnail says Jansen joins the circus. Nobody’s mad at Ron Washington for putting Kennley in at this point. He never gets the pitch cuz he’s a closer on a team that’s never in positions to have saves, right? So, this felt like the no-brainer decision. Tie game, top of the ninth inning. This is the closest Kennley Jansen is going to get to a save opportunity in the month of April and now the month of May. It feels like, right? And coming into this ball game, in case you forgot, coming into this ball game, here’s how many runs Kenley Jansen gave up before tonight. Zero. Zero. Perfect. In his debut on March 29th, gives up one hit, no runs, and a walk in on March 30th. I I don’t even need to go through it. He’s pitched six innings in the month of April, two innings in the month of March. Hasn’t given up a run. He gave up a total of, if I can do the math here quickly, five hits in eight innings. Five hits. Five hits and two walks in eight innings. And in his first appearance in May, in arguably maybe his third or fourth most important appearance of his early Angels career. You can’t blame Ron Washington for putting him in. You cannot. This is Ron Circus, but you can’t blame him for doing this. And what does Kenley Jansen do? He gives up. I I He gives up run after run, run after run, home run after home run. And I’m not even li I’m going to be completely honest with you guys. You can see the room here. You know, this is the childhood room. You see the Warriors poster, right? I am from the Bay Area. I am a Warriors fan in addition to my Clippers. I’m wearing the Norm Powell shirt. Game seven tomorrow for Eclipse. I’m sitting there watching both games. My dad zoomed in on the Warriors. I’m watching both and my dad’s like, “What’s the score of the Angels game?” I said, “Oh, it’s 1-1 going into the ninth inning.” And he’s like, “Oh, okay. This interesting. Maybe it’s going to go to extras. I I know that the offense ain’t going to do nothing, right? So, hopefully they can keep it tied at the top of the ninth, make it an extra inning game because you know the offense ain’t doing nothing in the bottom of the ninth. Keep it at 1-1 and then we’ll see if we can do better with the runner starting at second base. The only way the Angels are going to get a walk-off walk-off is if the runner starts at second base in extras. I knew it wasn’t happening in the bottom of the ninth. So, it’s just, okay, keep it tied in the top of the ninth, right? Keep it tied. Kenley Jansen coming in feeling real good about keeping it tied. Nope. Jansen throws a cutter right down Broadway. Right down the middle. 92.4. Green, who killed us yesterday, kills us again today. Not the furthest home run at all. Only 371 ft. But he hit it hard. He hit it high. And just like that, it’s 2-1. I’m sitting there going, “Oh gosh, if the Angels already come into this game with a 50% chance of winning at best.” You come into the ninth inning with it 1-1 with a 50% chance. You give up a run, it already feels like it’s goes from 50% to 10% chance, right? Just based on the way the Angels have been doing offensively. I’m like, “Okay, we got a one in 10 chance now of winning this game because even if we tie it, we might not win it in extras, but okay, it’s 2-1. All right, I I trust Kenley to lock in, right?” Okay, 02 pitch now to Colt Keith. Nice. He’s going to strike him out. He’s going to ease into things. We’re getting into the bottom of the ninth. Nope. Boom. Hangs a slider. Why in the world is there a slider up and away on 02 and Colt Keith hits it 106.7 exit VO 398 ft and my dad’s 3-1. He’s like what? I looked away. I looked back. It’s 3-1. Okay, we get Dylan Dingler out. Jace Jung gets a base hit. Trey Sweeney strikes out. Okay, 3-1. Screw it. The The way the Angels play, they can only score via the home run anyway. Most likely would have been a solo shot in the bottom of the ninth if anything. But hey, maybe you get a base runner on and you hit this the home run and and you know, you could tie it at three, right? Two outs now. Jav Bayz up against Jansen. I like that matchup. Righty righty. 02 pitch. Like it. Like it cut it right down the middle. See you. Highf fly ball to left field. 51. Four runs on three home runs off Kenley Jansen. Unbelievable. And then the worst part of all is at this point I’m like, “Get him out. Get him out. It’s done. Get him out. I’m ready for him to be gone there.” You can’t give up three home runs. I don’t care if you’re Kenley Jansen. I don’t care if you’re Ryan Johnson. I don’t care if you’re Zephr John or Reed Demers or anybody. You can’t give up three home runs and stay in the ball game. Ron Washington leaves him in. Gives him one more chance. And how does he respond? Cut it right down the middle. Base hit. Carrie Carpenter. McKinstry up. Take one guess. Sinker where? Basically right down the middle for a double down or into center field. Lays an egg. Lays an egg. Lays an egg. And B Dave saying what we’re all agreeing and and thinking. Jansen was the right guy coming in, but the problem was that he hadn’t pitched in a while because of the losing streak. Absolutely. And once again, that’s why we we are broken, suffering Angels fans that are not asking for this team to make a playoff run. But what do I always say? Play competitive baseball for as long as possible for several reasons, right? First and foremost, we have young guys who need to experience what real baseball is in June and July and August, right? they can’t have the season over by the All-Star break, right? But there’s all these little other things in baseball that come from losing streaks versus screw winning streaks, but just playing competitive baseball. And this is a perfect example. If you’re a bad team, but still a team that is playing close games, having leads occasionally, I mean, we don’t even have leads anymore, other than yesterday, which boy did we say goodbye to that one quickly. We don’t even have leads anymore, right? Other teams that lose and suck like the Angels, at least they have leads sometimes. And so their closer gets to pitch sometimes or at least they’re close and their reliever can go in maybe in a oneun deficit deficit. But when it is constantly angel zero, other team four every ninth inning, yes, Kenley Jansen’s not going to pitch. And so there you go. You are totally right. He was rusty. He has not pitched in a while. But still, if you’re rusty, you give up one home run. Maybe you give up two, but you give up a third. A third and then you stay in the game. So, if there was any chance of having a Giants-like rally like they did against the Giants on that Sunday afternoon walk-off when it’s 5-1, maybe you still have that chance. But when you give up two more hits and it’s second and third and Jake Ger comes in for him and then immediately throws a wild pitch which was hilariously infuriating by the way and then walk Spencer Torlson and then Riley Green for the second time in the inning. Remember remember the good old days when Joe Adele was the one hitting two home runs in an inning. Now it’s Riley Green at the big A. Hits his second home run. This one a three-run shot. He absolutely crushed it on a hanging sweeper and it’s nine to one. Nine to one. So I don’t know what else you can say it watching this game other than two things. Be absolutely infuriated and two say that the turning point was Kennley Jansen blowing this game. Right. And so that’s why I just did air for about 13 minutes. I guess rant about how infuriated infuriating this is and how much of a turning point it was with Kennley Jansen coming in the ball game. When I come back, I’m going to take a deep breath, read some ads, and I’m going to try to tell you what else happened in this ball game. There was one positive, and there’s one other huge negative that some people are going to forget just because of how bad this ninth inning was. But there’s one other huge negative, and there’s a tiny little positive that we’ll talk about as well after our only break here on the Locked on Angels Podcast. I’ll be right back. Now, today’s show is brought to you by Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K. Did you know your Fire TV is also an Xbox? Turn any TV into your gaming and entertainment hub with Fire TV Stick 4K devices. No console required. Just grab your paired controller, subscribe, or sign into Xbox Game Pass Ultimate with EA Play included, and you’re ready to go. 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Well, let’s just give up all eight runs in the ninth this time. Let’s just invent a new way to lose. And that’s what the Angels do. 14 hits for the Tigers, nine runs. Of course, eight of them coming in the ninth inning. But there’s one other infuriating thing that I haven’t even talked about yet. And it’s the fact that the Angels offense was downright awful. Once again, Zach Nettle leads off the game with a first pitch home run. A first pitch home run. And how poetic that after Zach Neto takes the first pitch at the bottom of the ninth inning or the I wish it was the bottom of the ninth. The bottom of the first inning, a high fast ball off school ball 97.8 at the letters. He ripped it. He absolutely pummeled it by the way. 107.9 xavila 429 ft. He continues to be the only angel. And I mean Kennley Jansen was included in this. He just forgot about him because he doesn’t play. But even he’s not included in this anymore. Zack officially probably the only competent angel, right? Only competent angel. It feels like Tyler Anderson’s probably there as well. I would argue that Jos Seraniano was hopefully still there. Logan Hoppy maybe too. But Zach Nettle the only competent angel for the most part. He gets your only run on your only home run on your only RBI on your only run on one of your four hits in the entire ball game. Absurd. Oh goes one for three. Darno goes one for three. And Paris goes one for three. But don’t worry, Darno still added two strikeouts. Paris still added two strikeouts. And even Neto still added two strikeouts. Talk about Taylor Ward in the cleanup spot replacing Mike Trout, right? 0 for three with three strikeouts. He’s now hitting 178 just like Mike Trout was doing when he was actually playing baseball. Renifo is going 0 for three every game now. Tim Anderson, you already know what he did without me needing to tell you. And so, yes, just once again, in addition to collapsing, you also did nothing the whole game. And so, it’s one of those things where if you stole a 2 to1 victory, some people would have forgotten how bad the offense was, right? They would have forgotten. But fortunately, fortunately, I just tried to look for something positive. I couldn’t think of anything. Fortunately, there’s nothing fortunate. We are just pummeled. We’re just It’s just pathetic. It’s pathetic. Yes, there was that little skirmish there, Zach Neto. Um, and I I kind of agree with this point here from real Marco Polo. He says, “I love Neto, but you can’t be home run watching when your team is on a six-game losing streak.” I agree. I do agree. And I’m usually not someone who is, you know, poo pooing celebrations, poo pooing the excitement that I think needs to be added to baseball. I like bat flips. I like talking trash if it’s respectful in the right moments and everything. Um, but I agree because Zach Neto, and once again, if you forget the one time I was talking about it, the first time he came back, Zach Neto was one of the leaders of this team. It’s him and Oh, right. And oh is never going to do something like this because he is as cool, calm, and collected as they come. And Zach Neto is the opposite. He is the Energizer buddy. That’s why I call him, right? He is going to give you the flare, the excitement that you need when your team is dead. And this team is dead right now. So, part of me is like, “Hey, we need some life. Maybe we need you getting excited after hitting a home run because there’s been no excitement.” But I don’t know if home run watching, like real Marco Polo just called it, is what I need. I need you to hit the home run, scream at your dog out, let’s go, let’s wake up. I need you to round the bases, go back in the dugout and say, “Let’s keep it going.” Right? I don’t need you to worry about looking cool or showing up the pitcher or anything like that on a six-game losing streak when your offense has been abysmal. I need you to as the leader that I believe you are and we all hope you are. Hit that home run and don’t worry about the other team strictly Angels dugout. Let’s go. Let’s wake up tonight. Start something. Right. So, I’m not going to get fully mad at him or anything because I need some energy. I need some excitement, some life for it to act like people care on this team, right? But like Joseph says here as well, pimping it was kind of embarrassing because one, it’s the first inning and you you sit there going, you know, those those Twitter accounts that are like photos that precede horrible events. It’s one of those things where it’s like you do realize you play for the Angels and one- nothing means absolutely nothing and you know you’re probably going to lose this lead. Right. Right. You know you’re going to lose this lead. You’ve been here I know it’s not been super long, but you’ve been here long enough to know one nothing ain’t nothing, right? So the end of the day that was annoying and it was still the the most exciting thing of the ball game still had a negative connotation to it. There’s only one positive in this game other than that home run and it was Jose Soraniano. I thought he was very good. I know he gave up six hits and a walk, but five strikeouts and multiple multiple times he gave up two singles in a series in an inning and got out of it. Couple singles, second inning, third inning, double plays, getting out of it. Strikeouts, getting out of it. I was impressed. I know he was only able to pitch six innings because he did have 94 pitches. I would have liked to see him have a chance to pitch in the seventh just to see. Who knows if he’s coming out there and he’s having a long at bat in his first at bat. All right, get someone ready to go, right? But if he goes in there and he throws three sinkers and gets two ground balls right away, screw it. Get him through the seventh. And then if you get him through the seventh, instead of it being Johnson giving up a run in the seventh, it’s Johnson coming up in the eighth, right? or you don’t even need to go to Johnson the eighth, you go with Zephr John, right? So, um I’m laughing at these comments. They’re hilarious. Um but yeah, at the end of the day, it’s just frustrating cuz another positive is ruined. Uh in a a series, a season a season, yes, that hasn’t had many positives. Sorano at times has been one of them. And once again, it’s ruined. And it’s just feeling once again, it’s feeling a whole lot like 2024 where whenever there’s a positive, it seems to always be the starting pitcher and it’s for nothing. It’s for nothing. And here it is once again. So, with all that being said, another really long show. We’re going to wrap this one up, but shout to everybody in here as always. Uh really appreciate a big crowd tonight despite it being a Friday night. Uh I know it was a little bit of a delay there. Always weird setting up on a different uh place when it’s not my apartment in LA. Uh but shout out to everyone who’s been really g giving me the kind words and everything. again. Really miss uh the fact I wasn’t able to go to the game tonight and meet all you guys there. But we will make it happen. I’m thinking maybe next Friday. I the Friday nights worked the best for me just with work and everything with my other job. We’ll see if the Clippers are playing at that point. But maybe next Friday. That quarter zip is also looking pretty nice. I’m not going to lie. But I’ll let you know. We’re going to make it happen whether it’s next Friday or another game. But with all that being said, we’re going to wrap this one up. Angels one, Tigers nine. Seven losses in a row. Eight runs given up in the ninth inning. It sucks to be an Angels fan, but shout out to all of you. Vinnie says he was at the game. Uh really appreciate everyone that was planning to meet up. I really do. So, we’ll make that happen. Have a great rest of your Friday. Have a great weekend. I’ll see you back here tomorrow after Please and Angels win. Take care everybody. Go Angels and go Clippers tomorrow. Let’s get this dubbed. Peace out.

Kenley Jansen had not given up a run in 2025, but the legendary closer came in with the game tied in the 9th and gave up SIX as the Detroit Tigers scored 8 in the inning to hand the Los Angeles Angels a 9-1 loss on Friday night. In this Locked On Angels Postcast, Gavin Carlson rips into Jansen’s performance, gives his take on Zach Neto pimping his HR, and highlights another strong Jose Soriano start wasted.

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