Los Angeles Angels WIN Series vs. Phillies! Jo Adell & Taylor Ward Milestones, Soriano Dominates!

Los Angeles Angels WIN Series vs. Phillies! Jo Adell & Taylor Ward Milestones, Soriano Dominates!

On this episode of Locked on Angels, a series win against a really good Phillies team. Wow, it kind of got us thinking. What does this mean for our favorite team? We’re going to discuss the impact of this series win in segment 3 today. I’m Mike. That’s John. We’re the Super Halo Bros. And this is Locked on Angels. You are Locked On Angels, your daily Los Angeles Angels podcast, part of the Locked On podcast network. Your team every day. Thanks for making Locked On Angels your first listen of the day. You can find us anywhere you get your podcast, including Apple Podcast, Spotify, and SiriusXM by searching Locked On Angels. And if you’d like to give back to the Super Halo Bros. For all the Super Halo content, here’s some things that you can do. Leave us a rate and a review on Apple Podcast. Thank you to Matt E. Ice who gave us a recent review and a fivestar. We appreciate that. If you’re watching on YouTube, hit that thumbs up button. 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On today’s show, we’re going to share with you the biggest takeaways from the weekend. You know, you can always catch a great recap, instant reaction from the busiest man in podcasting, Gavin Carlson, on our YouTube channel. And immediately after each and every game, he does the Angels Lockdown Angels postcast. And so we try to give you what you need to know from each game, the takeaways, the things you want to walk away with knowing so that when somebody talks to you about this weekend, you can say, “Well, you know, actually,” and then you can uh, you know, lay some knowledge on them. We want you to be a Smarter Angels fan. And that’s our goal here at Lockdown Angels. So with that said, let’s get into Friday night’s game against the Phillies. The Angels took this one six to five. Mike, let’s talk about it. Yeah, Angels are 19 and 11 in one games. A good indication of a good team. Now, not all the metrics are up and to the right for this team. That run differential is one of those metrics that makes us really nervous. But a lot of one a lot of oneun games. John Angels getting a victory on Friday night. First takeaway, the Angels opted to have a bullpin game. That was an interesting move, right? And I was ready to be upset about it. And I think Angel fans were ready to be upset about it. Oh, yeah. But it it it ended uh a a really interesting streak for the Angels. a streak that you never thought this team would actually be able to start and participate in, but they had a fiveman rotation in 96 games this year that they had a strictly fiveman rotation. Same guys every single every single time. It was a franchise record to begin a season. Third longest stretch in the majors over the past decade. Cardinals in 2016, 98 games without going to a sixth starter. And then the Astros in 2018, 126 games without going to a six-star. They just had Garrett Cole and Justin Verlander and Frerald, right? Yeah, they didn’t need to do that. Um, Ray Montgomery said it was a logical question to wonder why they wouldn’t simply give Kikuchi and Seraniano the ball as soon as possible. He said they like the opportunity to give them a little bit of an extra day after the break. Then Jeff Fletcher of the OC Register tweeted that two other factors for the bullpin game. The Angels prefer Hendrickx and Anderson in New York against the Mets instead of the Phillies because it’s a better pitcher park. We’ll see if the Angels are correct in that. We’ll see. Yeah, we’ll see. Uh uh they also have one more option for a fifth starter on Wednesday that they would have on Tuesday because Wednesday is the first day that Victor Maderos can return because he was up with the team, was sent back to Triple A, and then there’s that 15-day window where player A pitcher can’t come back right away unless there’s an injury. The final game in New York on Wednesday is TBD. Mike, was this a bad decision? What do you think? I mean, it felt like it initially, right? It felt like it with with Zephr John starting this game. He went out there, he struck out the first two, but then gave up a home run to Kyle Schwarber in the bottom of the first. And then right after that, Jake Eer comes in and Eer gives uh three innings to the Angels, but gives up three runs and walks three. And so, we feel like we’re in some trouble. We’ll get to the offense in just a moment. But then the rest of the bullpen really did a good job of shutting things down, kind of living on the edge a bit. Brock Burke entered into the bottom of the fifth. He went an inning and uh he he gave up a hit, striking out two and then Sam Bachmann followed with twothirds of an inning. He really struggled in this game. Not not this game, but the next game, but he struggled this weekend. And then Reed Deetmer’s entered in the bottom of the seventh, win an inning, struck out two, and then Jos Firmine comes in in the bottom of the eighth and immediately gives up a home run to Bryce Harper that made it a one-run lead at that point for the Halos. We’ll talk about Famine um and what he did this weekend coming up on the show. Uh he did get the next three batters, uh including a strikeout of Marsh and then Kenley Jansen came in for the save in this game. Got the hitters one, two, three. So, the bullpin game ended up being a success for the Halos and it was because second takeaway, John, the Halo hitters supported the bullpen with three home runs on Friday. Yeah, I was going to say that considering it’s the guys that we talked about, Kyle Schwarber and Bryce Harper doing the damage. It’s like, well, yeah, like expect that, right? Yeah, they would have done that to a starter, too, right? like maybe not as much success, but like also I mean literally Schwarber won the All-Star game for the NL because of the swing off, which I thought was awesome, by the way. I thought that was a lot of fun. Yeah, the offense supported the bullpen. They got the scoring started in the top of the second. Jose uh Jorge Cer hit his 11th home run of the season. He looks good up at the plate. He’s looking a lot better now that it seems like he’s healthy. Top of the fourth, Joe Adele hits his 20th home run of the season. That ties a careerhigh and it was a two-run homer. Color me shocked, Mike, that they had a home run with runners on base. Trout was on with a double uh after before Joe Adell hit that home run. Speaking of Trout, in the top of the fifth with runners at first and third with two outs, Mike Trout hit an RBI single. That’s career RBI 996 for Trout at that point. That RBI was Neto who scored a run in his eighth straight game. So doing the job from the leadoff position. Top of the seventh after a Nolan Shaell walk, Taylor Ward hit his 22nd home run of the season at the time and that gave the Halos the lead. So the offense really uh showing up for this bullpen game that they really really needed to show up for. Yeah. Third takeaway from Friday. Oh batting stance a little bit different. His hands are a little bit more behind his head. He’s turned in towards the plate and he had some success with it at least on Friday night. Two hits including John. He hit a triple. He was motoring around the bases and that was great to see. Fourth takeaway, John. Uh there’s there’s two plays that we loved, right? And there are three plays that we hated. So, let me do the two that we loved first and then I’ll let you share all the hate on the show. top six. After a Solair walk, Logan Hoppy flies out to deep center field. Marsh caught it but was moving backwards and Solair noticed that and he tagged up. He went from first to second. Now, it didn’t lead to a run which was frustrating but I loved the awareness. And then the second play, top nine, Neto doubles and Shaunell grounds out to first base to move Neto to third. Productive out. I love that. It’s the little things that make this team successful and they just need to continue to do that. So, those were two plays that we love. John, share the three plays that we hated on Friday. Yeah, let’s stay in the top of the ninth and share the plays that we hated. Neto was on third. Mike Trout struck out looking. Took fast balls on three and one and three and two counts and he didn’t swing. Yeah. So, he’s searching for the walk. It’s like, bro, come on. We might trout just swing. You got Neto on third. Like we we need you to swing in those situations. I understand. He’s very good at working counts. And in this situation, you had a 3-1 count. Heck, you even had a 3-2 count. You had another chance. And so frustrating. Taylor Ward also followed that with a strikeout looking. This happened in back-to-back innings actually, Mike, for the for the Angels. Top of the eighth. Oh, hop hit that triple that you mentioned with one out. Ranifo and Newman both struck out. Both times this happened, they had less than two outs and didn’t score that runner from third base. So, frustrating stuff there. Finally, top of the fifth, the Angels did leave the bases loaded. Uh, and then Joe Adell grounded out to end that inning. However, the Angels win this one six to five and start the road trip off well. So, that was uh exciting to watch. I did kind of I had a I don’t know. I had a funny moment of watching Joe Adell hit the home run over Brandon Marsh’s head. Did you have a any sort of feels about that? Because I certainly did watching that. I was like, man, I love Oh, but it would have been nice to have Oh, and Marsh and Adele in this on this team. I don’t know. I just kind of had a funny feeling like that. The the Brandon Marsh that they traded away, he had two really good years. Um, and then this year happened and he’s just not doesn’t seem like the same guy. And I don’t know if it’s injuries or if he’s getting older or pitchers are starting to figure him out. It was great to see him. He made a couple of great catches on Sunday, one on Renifo, and then they had a moment at second base. And so I love the camaraderie there. But I I will say I’ll take Hoppy over Marsh, right? I know you would as well. But it would have been nice to maybe have a Brandon Marsh in the outfield. Uh maybe it would have been nice to keep Mickey Monia, right? Like it would have been nice to have some of those guys, but I love that Joe Adele is is heating up and of course he had a really great weekend. It all started on Friday night. 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Interesting note here, he’s got a 5.85 ERA in the first inning. 17 runs given up most of any inning. So, it’s the way he starts and then kind of the way he finishes too, Mike. The next closest inning is the sixth inning where he’s given up 11 runs. He only gave up the one run because the Halos turned a very unique double play behind him. You know, it’s funny as I saw the clip and there were a lot of comments. I think John Boy had reposted it and it was like, “Ooh, this doesn’t this is not a good look uh for the Phillies.” And before it said that caption, there were people in the comments saying, “Man, I thought this was going to be a an Angels issue. I thought it was going to be an Angels problem.” Like, it was like, “Oh, good. It was the Phillies that made the mistake, not the Angels.” So, I thought that that was really funny. But one comment about that, John, is and maybe I should hold this comment back because uh we haven’t really seen the moments with with the Angels this year, right? Where they’re they’re just going crazy and things are falling apart. I know they’ve had a couple of bad like errors and throws and things like that, but nothing to where it was like this on on Saturday for the Phillies. Just bad base running and and really heads up defense by the Halos. Yeah. With uh no outs and runners on second and third. Bryce Harper grounded out to second. Renifo threw home and Trey Turner was on third. And then Darno gets him to go back to third. Then he throws it to second to get the runner out. Then Neto, who was at second, throws it back home because Trey Turner broke for home again. Yeah. And so then Darno runs the runner back to third. They throw it to Monata and he tags the runner out. So it was a Ranhifo to Darno to Neto to Darno to Manata. Double play to get those guys off of second and third. So yeah, he was able to get out of it without much damage. Um the second takeaway, Mike, for the rest of his start, Kikuchi was much better. He followed his first inning struggles by striking out the side in the second inning. The second inning has actually been one of his best innings. He’s posted a 2.25 RA in the second, which is important because of those struggles in the first. He’s able to lock in and get back to where he needs to be by the second inning. Just one hit since the first sixks from the second to the fifth inning. Things got difficult for him in that fifth inning. He walked the lead off hitter and Trey Turner singled him in. Kikuchi recovered, struck out Harper and a 10 pitch at bat and he got Castanos to line out. Thing is though is he had about 33 pitches in that fifth inning. Yeah. And so the next question here that we’ll talk about is the bullpen management. Uh but he did go five innings, gave up five hits, two runs, three walks, eight strikeouts on 91 pitches. Mike, 19 swings and misses in this game. 10 of them came on the fast ball because he was throwing it in there at like 98 on Saturday night. Now, he would not get the win obviously because the Angels not only lost this game, but the bullpin couldn’t hold the lead for Kikuchi. And that’s our third takeaway, right, Mike? Yeah. Bottom six, the bullpin took over. Angels were leading four to two, but they ended the bottom of the sixth inning trailing seven to four because in this inning there was a hit by pitch. There were two walks that came back to hurt the halos. And the bigger issue, John, and it’s one that I’ve talked about on this show often, is that the walk and the hit by pitch were to guys at the bottom of the freaking order. I know, guys are are hardly hitting, right? You have such a hard top of the order with with Trey Turner and Kyle Schwarber and Bryce Harper and Cassianos. I mean, you’ve got great hitters. Bottom of the order are the guys you got to get out and the bullpen just couldn’t do it. Specifically, Bachmann and for me, they really struggled. Bachmann was charged with three runs and Fine was charged with two runs each walk to combine three batters, but the big blow was the grand slam by free agent Kyle Schwarber at the end of this year. Uh and and Fine, John Fine threw him a fast ball in the zone, high in the zone, exactly where he likes it. Second night in the row that Fine has thrown a high fast ball and it was hit out. And this all happened, Here’s what’s even more frustrating. It all happened with two outs in the bottom of the sixth inning. Yeah, that was really, really frustrating. Phillies added more in the top of the eighth on a home run from Bryce Harper. It happened with two outs and Carson Fulmer was on the mound. But John, back to you for me for just a moment. Like th this is frustrating because he I know he’s a young guy and and somebody that is learning how to pitch. It really brings us to our fourth takeaway. The Halos really need some experience in the bullpen if they’re going to make a run, right? Yeah. And we’ve discussed this before, but if they want to make a run, they’re going to need some more veteran guys in there. And David Robertson, funny enough, signed a deal with the Phillies over the weekend because they were mad about how their bullpen looked on Friday night and so they signed him. Can I just say that the fact that it’s for mean and Bachmann, the guys who haven’t been around the team as much or as long this year, uh, to me it’s an experience thing. I also think it’s a a mentality thing in that Mike, you have to attack the guys at the bottom of the order like you said. Yeah. But then, and I don’t know if it’s if it’s Oh calling the pitches, Darnell calling the pitch. Well, it was Darno in this situation, but what I’m saying is who’s in charge here? Because when you look at I’m on Baseball Savant right now, Kyle Schwarber’s hitting 316 against fast balls. Mhm. But you know what he’s hitting against breaking balls? 149. Yeah. Right. So, why you throwing him a fast ball? Why you throwing him a fast ball atone, right? At all. And then in the zone. And not even to try to hit the top of the zone and and you know, get him to swing through. Don’t do that. Don’t throw him a fast ball. Right. And so it just makes me wonder, you know, who’s in charge and who’s guiding these young guys along if not Darno? And shouldn’t you know the scouting report on a Kyle Schwarber like that? So yeah, it’s just frustrating in that situation. And even if you didn’t know the scouting report, John, I don’t know the scouting report. And I knew that it was not great to throw a fast ball at the top of the zone or throw a fast ball at all. Yeah. Throw And I get that they had just walked a bunch of guys. It did seem like Bachmann was really struggling with his control. for me didn’t seem like he was not in control of his breaking stuff, but I think that they were trying to set Schwarber up for the breaking stuff when in reality like bases loaded, it’s it’s it’s like a video game, right? It’s like Kim Griffy Jr. baseball and you had Griffy Jr. at the plate. You knew with the bases loaded that he’s going to smack the ball, he’s going to crush the ball. Didn’t matter what you threw to him, he was going to hit the ball and hit it out of the park. And so, you have to be very careful in those situations. And there was a lot they did before that situation that got them into trouble. They were nitpicking. They weren’t throwing in the zone. They were trying to throw out of the zone. And I mean, it’s Harper and it’s Trey Turner. They’re not going to chase. Yeah. And that’s the problem. And then if you’re not going to get the bottom of the order out, then you’re going to have to face Trey Turner and the Bryce Harpers and the Kyle Schwarbers and the Nick Nick Castanos. You’re have to you’re have to face them with runners on. If you’re not going to get the guys who you’re supposed to get out out of the game in the Angels bullpen, Bachmann and for me specifically just couldn’t do it. Yeah. And and to be a Monday morning quarterback here for a second, it almost feels like you needed to go to Connor Brogden for the sixth inning rather than these young guys who were in in the night before. Right, Mike? Now, problem is is that we probably would have had Hunter Strickland in that situation, but he’s hurt. Yeah. Um I I’m going to say, well, if he was still around, they probably would have put Hector Nery in there. But did you see Hector Nery against the Mariners this weekend? Not too good. I think we dodged a bit of a bullet there. But yeah, the problem is is that even though these guys are young and veterans also can make mistakes, they do have a better sense of what the hitter can do. And so they’re going to pitch to the weaknesses of that hitter rather than groove him a fast ball to Kyle Freaking Schwarber who again 316 on the fast ball this season for his batting average. Yeah. Fifth takeaway for the Angels uh was that they had a really good offense early on. They got the lead, but they struggled to regain the lead. We’ll get to that in just a moment. But first, everything started for the Halos in the top of the fourth. Taylor Ward got the Angels on the board with his 23rd home run, his 100th career home run. Then Joe Adell follows with a home run of his own, 21st. That’s a careerhigh for Joe Adele. And the Angels follow with four singles. Mata, Wade Jr., Renifo, and Neto. And they add another run. They had six hits and three runs in that fourth inning. John, they added a run in the top of the sixth on a Monata home run. And then the top of the seventh after the Angels bullpin surrendered the lead in the bottom of that uh in that inning in the sixth. Nolan Shaunell reaches on a single and then Taylor Ward who’s just on fire right now doubles Shaunell in. And that was the only positive for the Halos because after Schwarber hit the grand slam, the offense just they fell asleep, John. They they struck out five times in the last three innings after striking out seven times through the first six innings. I know those numbers aren’t great, but it really felt like they were pressing once Schwarber hit that home run. Once they went down, it felt like they were like, “Okay, we got to get it all back right now in this moment.” I was just going to say that’s something you say often on this show is that when the Angels fall behind, it feels like they’re trying to get everything back in the very next inning rather than it feel like that on Saturday. I mean, it felt like they were like panicky. It felt very panicky and and I would say like maybe that is a lack of having Ron Washington on the bench and it’s Ray Montgomery, but remember they did that with with they did it with Ron, you know. So it just it just it feels like that hasn’t been solved and I know that they’ve come back like they’ve had some great comebacks. Sure. This season, but it just felt like once when when Shaunell reached and then Ward doubled him in, that felt great, but they had a chance to knock in Ward and they didn’t do it right. They And that’s the thing that I think I think happens often with this team. If they get down big, and they weren’t down that big. It was only three runs, but if they get down big, it seems like they’re trying to get it all back in one swing. With Taylor Ward sitting at second base after knocking in a run, man, you have an opportunity to continue to turn the bat turn the batting lineup over, right? And that’s where you just need little little dinks and dunks. And that’s that’s how the Angels have been beaten by really bad teams this year. And then here they are as the bad team playing the good team. And they just didn’t do that on Saturday. And then of course Carson Fulmer comes in and then the lead grows after that and the Angels end up losing nine to five on Saturday. Feels like Carson Fulmer should have been back a while ago to be that innings eater guy uh rather than it. It certainly would have solved the issue of bringing up Aldi, bringing up Kaden Dana like everybody hooting and hollering about that. It would have been nice to replace that innings eater guy, but the fact is they haven’t really needed that guy, right? They haven’t needed that mop-up Jose Suarez guy a lot this season, and that’s a good thing. And they needed it early on in the season, and that’s why Ian Anderson was that guy. Uh, but at this point, um, they haven’t really needed that. It’s unfortunate that they lost the game on Saturday, but they did try to look to win the series on Sunday. How about FanDuel and you and winning some money? Those are three great things and let’s combine them all together. FanDuel is the best way to make every game more exciting. You’re already following the action, so why not make it a little bit more thrilling. With FanDuel, you can get in on the game while your friends are out at the beach getting sunburned. You can earn some cold hard cash. FanDuel is easy to track your favorite matchups. The app keeps things fresh with new daily promotions. It’s a fun way to bet. 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Of this year, and you knew that to be true because, as you said, it certainly felt that way. And not only that, but coincidentally, it was a a day game as well. And that’s something that they’ve struggled in in uh this season in in addition to uh winning on Sunday, which I know most of the time it’s it is a day game, but uh they haven’t won day games during the week often either. So, it’s been a problem. But, let’s talk about the takeaways from Sunday. Mike, first takeaway was the Angels learned how to hit with runners in scoring position. Happy learned how to put. Uh, from Jeff Fletcher, he’s he said that since the weekend in Toronto when the Angels couldn’t get a hit with a runner in scoring position. Since then, they’ve hit 292, including 333 with runners in scoring position. on Sunday. They had three hits with runners in scoring position and had at least two hits in the last two games. We saw those big hits helped the Angels in the second inning. That brings us to our second takeaway, Mike. Yeah, Angels had a big second inning on Sunday. They loaded the bases in that second inning with less than two outs and Neto delivered with an RBI single to right. Uh he’s John, he’s batting .478 in his career with the bases loaded. Is that all? That’s that’s all. Right. And then Wade Jr. who is in this game. We’ll talk about him in a second because Shauna went out. He flew out to left. Then Mike Trout draws a bases loaded walk. First of two RBI’s on the day for Trouty. Now that ball that was called ball four looked like strike three to to Mike Trout. It feels like and we we mentioned this in the first segment. It feels like he’s up there looking to walk rather than to do some damage right now. Am I wrong in that? But I know his stats right now have been great. His last seven games he’s been great. Since he’s returned, he’s been great. But his on base percentage since he returned, it’s in the 430s. So, he’s getting on base, but it feels like he his approach is more of a leadoff hitter rather than a number three hitter. Yeah. Well, and I think that goes back to the argument of where he could have been in this lineup, Mike, and that’s, you know, number one or at least number two. But I think he’s just rolling with what’s working right now. And the fact is is like if he’s if he’s swinging at the ball, like he’s going to make good contact whether it lands or not, you know, that’s up to, you know, the expected average, the the outfielder, what have you. The truth is, Mike, I know that we pile on sometime where the trout’s not clutch or he doesn’t come through in the big moment, but we have to look at where he’s been in his career, and it’s usually in front of Albert Pulse at number two. At times it was in front of Otani, at times it was behind Otani, but still like batting second, batting third, right? So there were a lot of moments where he’s being the kind of guy that he’s being now, right? He’s been that guy for a very, very long time. In this situation, he’s trusting somebody like Taylor Ward, the cleanup hitter, to do what he’s supposed to do. And in this situation, he did do what he was supposed to do. Taylor Ward cleared the bases with a double, gave the Halos a fiveun lead. Taylor Ward is guessing right right now, Mike. It’s the the streaky Taylor Ward is guessing right and he did that all weekend. Uh the first five run innings since June 28th against the Nationals. Taylor Ward had two doubles in this game. That gives him 24 doubles on the season and 23 home runs as well. He also had four RBI’s in this one. Eight RBI’s for the series and 73 total RBI’s for the season. He’s been hitting a lot better on the road as well. Entering yesterday’s game on on Sunday, slashing 278, a 355 on base, a 593 slugging, and a 948 OPS on the road. However, at home, 171 average, 240 on base, a 366 slugging, and a 606 OPS at the Big A. But all this offense was in service of helping José Soraniano pick up the win, who is the focus of our third takeaway, right Mike? Yeah. Soraniano so much better on the road. He entered Sunday 5-2, 247 RA in 10 starts, 62 innings, 42 Ks, and 25 walks with a 126 whip and a 239 batting average against. At home, 1 and5 with an RA of 565, 10 starts, 51 innings pitched, 56 Ks. He’s striking out more guys at home. Interesting. Walking more guys, 30 walks and a 1.69 whip with a 279 batting average against. He went seven innings in this game, John, and gave up six hits, two runs. He walked two and he struck out five. It was the longest outing for an Angel starter since July 3rd against the Braves. Guess who the starter was? Jos Soraniano. He went seven innings in that game and he got the win. And here’s a remarkable stat. He got 16 outs on 14 ground balls, zero outs on fly balls and line drives. John, the last out of the game was the first out that wasn’t a strikeout or a ground ball. It was a line drive to Newman. That was the first out that was in the air and it ended the game. The Angels bullpin and Sorano had the Phillies hitting the ball into the dirt. Yeah, you made my buckle up nerd alarm go off when you said that he’s got more strikeouts at home, but also more walks than he does on the road. I think I’m going to have to dig into that, Mike, because I think that there’s something there. So, uh, yeah, I’m going to I’m going to pull that thread a little bit and see what I can find this week. Do it. Fourth takeaway. John Nolan Shaw left this game with a left wrist contusion. Sounds like everything is fine. He’s just really, really sore. pitch hit him in the wrist top of the first and then he left in the bottom of the first and then Lamont Wade Jr. took over for him and John uh Wade Jr. hits a home run in this game. He has three hits in this game. Makes an incredible scoop at first base in this game in the seventh inning. He suddenly becomes not late night Lamont, but uh what was the name that our everydayers nicknamed him? Steve Rivera on YouTube said lunchtime Lamont as they say. And you know what, Blake? Maybe there’s something to that. Maybe Lamont Way Jr. needs to be in a day game because the ball flies a little bit more uh it’s a little bit easier, you know, to to get some air time, some hang time on those. So, I thought that was funny. And then also, I have to shout out Raul Ignasio on YouTube said uh Ranger Suarez pitched like Jose Suarez uh this year. And which is funny because there’s something about Angels and Suarez’s because we said the same thing about Robert Suarez of the Padres’s who blew that save and Taylor Ward hit that grand slam off of him. But yeah, very interesting series. Uh and again, I like Lunchtime Lamont. I think we’re going to have to roll with that. But what does this series say about the Halos as we get closer and closer about two weeks away from the trade deadline? Great. You won a series. Good. Now you got to win the next one, right? That’s what it says. It it it should they should not be making decisions about what happens this weekend because they got the Mets and then the biggest test comes when they play the Mariners and the Rangers. They have to win those series. They cannot split those series. They cannot lose those series. Doesn’t matter if they beat the Mets and and greet the Mets, right? It doesn’t matter. They have to be able to win against the Mariners and the Rangers. Win series, not winning streaks. Win series, not winning streaks. Get that tattooed across your forehead. Thanks for making Lockdown Angels your first listen of the day. Now for your next lesson, catch me and JD Haffern of Lockdown Cardinals on MLB game night. We’re going live after the final out of the final game. We’re back this week. Of course, they picked it back up on Friday, but JD and I have a lot of fun. So, you can catch Locked on MLB game night on the Locked on MLB YouTube channel or wherever you get your podcast. On Tuesday, Mike, we are back for more Locked on Angels. Before we get to that, give us a follow at lockdown angels and connect with Mike and I, Super Halobros on Twitter and Instagram. We would love to hear from you there. Whether you’re watching or listening, come on over to today’s show on YouTube. Get in the comments section and we’d love to hear your thoughts on the weekend and what the Angels need to be doing as we approach the trade deadline. Mike, what conversation do we have coming up on Tuesday? We’ll give you an update on who the fifth starter will be on Wednesday, who the Angels are looking at to fill that spot. Plus, we’re going to talk about how Jack Kohanowitz did yesterday in Triple A. He did start and the start was interesting. We’ll talk about the details of that tomorrow in Locked on Angels. All right, we’re looking forward to that conversation and we hope you’ll come back and join us. Until then, my name is John and that’s my brother Mike. And my name is Mike and that’s my brother John. Thanks for being here with us everybody and we’ll see you back here on Tuesday. Beat the Mets. Greet the Mets. I don’t know though. I don’t You’re looking at the new scouting director of the New York Mets.

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