Pirates (9-15) @ Angels (11-11)
First Pitch: 6:38 PM at Angel Stadium
| Team | Starter | TV | Radio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pirates | Bailey Falter (1-2, 5.19 ERA) | ||
| Angels | José Soriano (2-3, 4.34 ERA) |
Line Score – Game Over
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | LOB | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PIT | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 18 | 0 | 13 |
| LAA | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 4 |
Box Score
| LAA | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | BA | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LF | Ward | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .220 |
| SS | Neto | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .154 |
| RF | Trout | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .177 |
| DH | Soler | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .263 |
| C | O'Hoppe | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .284 |
| 1B | Schanuel | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .275 |
| CF | Adell | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .226 |
| 2B | Paris | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .273 |
| 3B | Newman | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .125 |
| 3B | Rengifo | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .215 |
| LAA | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | P-S | ERA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soriano, J | 3.1 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 84-45 | 4.34 |
| McDaniels | 1.2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 27-14 | 5.14 |
| Darrell-Hicks | 2.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 35-22 | 6.75 |
| Burke, B | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 23-14 | 5.79 |
| Anderson, I | 1.0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 28-16 | 11.57 |
| PIT | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | BA | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CF | Cruz, O | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .236 |
| RF | Reynolds, B | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | .263 |
| DH | McCutchen | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | .246 |
| 1B | Valdez, En | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .216 |
| 1B | Triolo | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .161 |
| C | Bart | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | .291 |
| 3B | Hayes | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .210 |
| 2B | Frazier | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .217 |
| LF | Pham | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .181 |
| SS | Kiner-Falefa | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | .293 |
| PIT | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | P-S | ERA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Falter | 4.0 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 65-44 | 5.19 |
| Shugart | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 28-17 | 1.04 |
| Bednar | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8-7 | 9.00 |
| Lawrence, J | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 17-5 | 0.79 |
| Santana, D | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3-3 | 1.74 |
| Borucki | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15-11 | 3.60 |
Scoring Plays
Highlights
Decisions
| Winning Pitcher | Losing Pitcher | Save |
|---|---|---|
| Shugart (1-0, 1.04 ERA) | Soriano, J (2-3, 4.34 ERA) |
Game ended at 9:38 PM.
22 comments
Shit game and the K’s keep racking up. Except for Adell who’s hit the ball well, almost had a homer there too 🙁
If we could stop striking out 40 times a game that’d be awesome.
Can the Ian Anderson experiment be over? Id rather pick up someone off the street than let him pitch.
Just win the next two, need a bounce back from Jack K tomorrow. Man, that was an ugly one though.
What good is Johnny Washington providing?
What’s the purpose of Barry acting as Matt Wise 2.0?
Why is Ron incapable of seeing when a pitcher just doesn’t have it?
Im not gonna sit here and say we’re better than the pirates, cause we are not. But the overall hitting talent has so much better ability and they continue to whiff at every thing.
Just blows my mind
At what point do we start ragging on the hitting coach? Or is it analytics that has this offense looking so bad?
I think this team is just cursed
how do we go from life n death with the giants and getting our backs blown out by the fucking pirates
This is a very winnable series, but man tonight was bad
I hope that one person had second thoughts on that Kyren Paris jersey. Dude is free falling out of a lineup spot 😵💫
Hope he adjusts and gets over all the K’s
I checked the team stats before the bottom of the 8th and saw only 2 men LOB. I thought, that’s not bad. Then I saw 10 SOs and said “That’s why only 2 LOB.” Striking out 40% of the time must be a MLB record.
Whatever we do, the “sell the team” chants must continue!!!
well that was ass and also cheeks
The strikeouts are killing us. That Soler K in the 8th was particularly bad.
Gave up 18 hits, gonna lose most of the games when that happens. Our bats got 12 K’s, 2 BB’s.
Worried about Soriano. Today’s performance was not like him.
Glad to see Darrell-Hicks pick up 2 scoreless innings. Feeling less good about McDaniels and Anderson. More inclined to give McDaniels a longer leash because of his status, but we should start looking at other reliever options regardless.
Paris might need some time in AAA to work on his swing. We only have short-term gap fillers like Scott Kingery to replace him. 10 K’s in his last 14 PA’s is rough stuff.
At least Newman is a good fielder, but his bat’s been impressively bad. He pulled a Brandon Drury, though Drury was a good hitter before being almost historically bad.
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I don’t think it’s been highlighted enough how tenuous our pitching depth is. We’re relying on two older soft tossers and pitcher aging can be unpredictable. Soriano struggled today, and I’m worried about his arm health too.
Our bullpen depth, which was pretty respectable last season, lost two guys in quick succession (Joyce and Crouse) and we immediately went from 6 guys I thought could be reliable (Jansen, Joyce, Zeferjahn, Burke, Crouse, and eventually Detmers) to only 4.
The front of the bullpen were pretty big question marks, like McDaniels (Rule 5, barely played at AA), Ryan Johnson (0 minor league games), and Ian Anderson (we got him for Suarez, which should tell you all you need to know about him), along with Michael Darrell-Hicks.
Couple pretty much all of those guys struggling (predictably) with Burke being a surprise regression and it’s looking rough back there. At least the back of the bullpen is lockdown when they come in.
Follow that up with how the only replacements for any of the starters are Detmers, Dana, or Silseth, and it’s pretty scary if we lose any more of these guys long-term.
The bullpen replacements are…who exactly? Carl Edwards Jr.? Kenyon Yovan? Samy Natera Jr.? Jose Fermin? Lots of uncertainty back there.
Yeah they could not hit tonight, and have not for a week or so it seems.
Awful, awful ugly game
Overall a pathetic showing from everybody
Designate Ian Anderson for Assignment already.
That, or fire Enright.
He is a horrible pitching coach.
Of all the games didn’t expect to lose this one
This was the first game of the year I made it out to. Ended up leaving early (not because of the score, but because I wasn’t feeling well). Glad to see I didn’t miss much.
Horribly rough game defensively, and offensively. At least there were some positive flashes, but over all, this was simply a rough, rough night. Sucks, because I figured after the big Giants win a few days back, the Angels would carry some momentum.