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RCPPHOTO \/\/ ShutterstockBiggest plays in Los Angeles Angels history<\/p>\n RCPPHOTO \/\/ ShutterstockBiggest plays in Los Angeles Angels history<\/p>\n
Major League Baseball history is built on moments \u2014 swings, pitches, and split-second plays that reshaped seasons and, in some cases, entire franchises. From walk-off home runs in winner-take-all games to clutch hits under October pressure, the biggest plays often came when the stakes were highest. Stacker<\/a> identified the most impactful plays in Los Angeles Angels history using data from Stathead<\/a>. Plays were ranked by their Championship Win Probability Added (cWPA), a metric that measures how much a single play changed a team’s odds of winning the World Series.<\/p>\n #6. October 26, 2002 (WS Gm 6)<\/p>\n – Score: down 5-3 (8th inning, 0 outs)<\/p>\n – Opponent: SFG<\/p>\n – Event: HR<\/p>\n – Play Description: Home Run<\/p>\n – cWPA: 7.73%<\/p>\n #5. October 26, 2002 (WS Gm 6)<\/p>\n – Score: down 5-4 (8th inning, 0 outs)<\/p>\n – Opponent: SFG<\/p>\n – Event: 2B<\/p>\n – Play Description: Double to LF (Fly Ball to Deep LF-CF); C.\u00a0Figgins Scores; G.\u00a0Anderson Scores (Unearned run)<\/p>\n – cWPA: 11.45%<\/p>\n #4. October 20, 2002 (WS Gm 2)<\/p>\n – Score: tied 9-9 (8th inning, 2 outs)<\/p>\n – Opponent: SFG<\/p>\n – Event: HR<\/p>\n – Play Description: Home Run (LF-CF); D.\u00a0Eckstein Scores<\/p>\n – cWPA: 11.45%<\/p>\n #3. October 27, 2002 (WS Gm 7)<\/p>\n – Score: down 1-0 (2nd inning, 2 outs)<\/p>\n – Opponent: SFG<\/p>\n – Event: 2B<\/p>\n – Play Description: Double to CF (Fly Ball to Deep LF-CF); S.\u00a0Spiezio Scores<\/p>\n – cWPA: 11.67%<\/p>\n #2. October 27, 2002 (WS Gm 7)<\/p>\n – Score: tied 1-1 (3rd inning, 0 outs)<\/p>\n – Opponent: SFG<\/p>\n – Event: 2B<\/p>\n – Play Description: Double to RF (Line Drive to RF Line); D.\u00a0Eckstein Scores; D.\u00a0Erstad Scores; T.\u00a0Salmon Scores<\/p>\n – cWPA: 13.85%<\/p>\n #1. October 26, 2002 (WS Gm 6)<\/p>\n – Score: down 5-4 (8th inning, 0 outs)<\/p>\n – Opponent: SFG<\/p>\n – Event: 1B<\/p>\n – Play Description: Single to LF (Pop Fly to Short LF Line); C.\u00a0Figgins to 3B; G.\u00a0Anderson to 2B (Advanced on throw) on E7<\/p>\n – cWPA: 14.65%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RCPPHOTO \/\/ ShutterstockBiggest plays in Los Angeles Angels history Major League Baseball history is built on moments \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[291,5,2178,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,4,81200],"class_list":["post-633100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-angels","tag-angels","tag-baseball","tag-california","tag-la","tag-la-angels","tag-laangels","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesangels","tag-mlb","tag-thestacker"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116260124604975839","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}