AAR: Aston’s Angels Report July 4-6, 2011
Game 86-88: Pitching + Defense= Win Or: Why Joe West Sucks Vol. 1, Issue 88
Obviously I’m behind in my writing, as if it really matters to anyone else, and maybe it’s just some version of OCD or other brain malfunction that forces me to want to continue, so here I am again typing away, even though I could easily just say I took a vacation for the Holiday and omit even watching the games, without any repercussions whatsoever. Maybe it’s just turned into a habit, maybe I want to prove (at least to myself) that I could do this for a living, or maybe I am sick of quitting things because I’m not successful at it (I.E. the guitar, baseball, pursuit of math tutor career). Or maybe it’s just that I dread having to back into the social work force, pleasing the social masses with a smile mask and arbitrary pleasantries, while continuing my [fleeting] hopes that I could actually have a job that I enjoy, because it allows me to work autonomously and creatively… And this is me trying to write a shorter document?…Let’s try this again!
I’m going to compile the entire series vs. the Detroit Tigers into one submission, and maybe I’ll continue it this way in the future, who knows (or cares?). After winning, 13 of the 18 inter-league game, the Angels started the series with Detroit in a tie for 1st place in their division, but after losing the 3rd game of the series, they fell one game back, because the Rangers swept their series. Pitching and defense was the name of the game in this series, as all three Angels starters had good outings, especially Dan Haren and Joel Pineiro, and each was helped out by stellar defense behind them, but some poor defense hurt the 3rd game’s starter, Tyler Chatwood, and ruined an otherwise solid outing. The all-mighty Joe West’s umpiring crew was involved, and as usual they made sure they were noticed, ejecting coaches and players, before and after making bad calls that altered the outcomes of games, and then dismissing anyone who dared to question their decisions, without even listening, as if it is impossible for them to be wrong.
Game 1 of the series was on Sunday, the 4th of July, and the Angels celebrated with a couple loud displays on offense, to back up one of Joel Pineiro’s best outings in a couple of months. He retired the first six batters he faced, and it looked like his pitches were moving more than they have lately, especially his sinker, as indicated by the four groundball outs. The first hit he allowed came in the 3rd, when the catcher Alex Avila celebrated his all-star team selection with a double down the 1B line, on a grounder that should have been stopped by 1B Mark Trumbo, but bounced right by him and into right field. Pineiro would strike out 2B Ryan Raburn, and get 3B Brandon Inge on a line out, before walking CF Austin Jackson (on a 3-2 sinker that was called a ball, as the Angels players started to go to the dugout, thinking it was a strikeout). LF Brennan Boesch grounded out to 2nd to end the 3rd.
Pineiro was given the lead early, when Torii Hunter hit a solo homerun deep to center field on a fastball right down the middle, from the Tigers’ rookie pitcher Charlie Furbush, making his first start in the majors, after 12 relief appearances so far this season. He retired the next five hitters he faced, until Peter Bourjos led off the 3rd inning with a grounder through the left side, on a 96 MPH fastball from the young lefty. Bourjos stole 2nd base, then catcher Jeff Mathis struck out, but Bourjos stole 3rd base on the 1st pitch to SS Erick Aybar, and the 3B Inge had to dive to catch an errant throw from the catcher, to save an error and a run. On the 2-2 pitch to Aybar, Furbush caught his cleat as he stepped to make his pitch, and stumbled off the mound without throwing the pitch, which is a balk, so the runner was automatically awarded home. They really manufactured that run, to make the score 2-0, and after Aybar and Hunter made outs, the game headed to the 4th.
Pineiro got into some trouble in the top of the 4th, started by a leadoff walk to RF Magglio Ordonez, which is never a good thing, especially when one of the best hitters in baseball, All-Star Miguel Cabrera coming up, and to make matters worse, Ordonez went to 2nd on a wild pitch to put a man in scoring position. Luckily for the Angels, they have Peter Bourjos in center field, and he was the main reason Cabrera went hitless in this one, except for his groundout in the 2nd. With the man at 2nd, he hit a sinking liner into CF, and Bourjos ran in to catch it just before it hit the ground, but stayed on his feet to avoid the problem he had last game (diving when he probably didn’t have to) and keeping the runner at 2nd base. The DH, Victor Martinez pulled an outside fastball and grounded out to 2nd, but SS Jhonny (yes that is how you spell it) Peralta pulled a grounder through the left side for an RBI single, to make the score 2-1.
In the bottom of the 4th, the Angels got a two-out double from their all-star 2B Howie Kendrick, to extend his hitting streak to 13 games, but Trumbo ended the inning with a fly out to left. They would, however, score single runs in three of the next four innings to take the 5-1 lead, starting in the 5th. Callaspo led off with a single back up the middle, went to 2nd on a bunt by Mathis, and scored on a bloop single to center by Aybar, which made the score 3-1 and ended the night for the Tigers’ starter. Lester Oliveros came in relief and ended the inning with a line drive to center. In the 6th, Vernon Wells hit a one-out double off the big wall in right center, that would have been a homer if it was just a couple feet to the left, and scored on a two-out single to right by Trumbo, to make it 4-1. They went down 1-2-3 in their next at bat, but added one more in the bottom of the 8th, when Vernon Wells blasted a homerun on a high fastball off of new reliever Phil Coke, deep into left field, into the stands beyond both bullpens.
Pineiro shut the Tigers out in his final three innings, with some help from his defense to preserve the lead. He retired them in order in the 5th, with about 8 pitches or so, but faced some major problems in the 6th [when the score was still 3-1]. Boesch led off the inning with a soft liner into left for a single, and Pineiro compounded the problem with another walk to Ordonez, this time on four straight balls, to bring their dangerous 1st baseman up with runners on again. He whacked a low sinker into deep centerfield, and Bourjos sprinted back to the track, jumped and caught the ball as he crashed into the wall, robbing Cabrera of another hit and saving the Angels from at least one run (probably two runs), from scoring. It was a huge play, and the momentum seemed to continue from that point on, and the next hitter, Martinez, pulled another outside pitch, and grounded into a double play, to end the inning. He got out of another jam in the top of the 7th, after Peralta continued his hot hitting with a leadoff double down the left field line. Avila grounded out, and Raburn singled to right, but Peralta was held at 3rd. This time it was Brandon Inge’s turn to hit into an inning-ending double play, hitting a grounder to Callaspo who threw to Kendrick at 2nd, and he made a good throw to 1st even though he was being barreled into by Raburn. That kept the score 4-1, and ended the night for Pineiro, who pitched 7 full innings for the first time in months, and finally earned a win (just a 4-3 record with a lot of no-decisions).
Scott Downs struck out two en route to an easy 1-2-3 inning in the 8th, and Michael Kohn came in to finish the game in the 9th, after Vernon Wells homer in the bottom of the 8th pushed the lead to 4 runs, so a save wasn’t in the works anymore. He walked Cabrera to lead off the inning, but retired the next three to end the game and seal the victory for the Angels. Five one-run innings, good pitching, and great defense were the winning combination in this one, and they were able to celebrate America’s Holiday with a victory.
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Game 2 of the series was another pitcher’s duel, as expected, with two of the best pitchers in the American League, facing off against each other. Dan Haren won his last game against the Nationals 1-0, in a major pitching duel, and his opponent on Tuesday was the fireballer, Justin Verlander, who is always a threat to throw [another] no-hitter. Both pitched virtually flawlessly in this one, but the umpires made themselves very apparent in this one, unfortunately for Verlander. There were only a few changes in the lineups, with Maicer Izturis playing 3rd, instead of Callaspo, which moved Aybar down to the 6th spot. The Tigers switched Cabrera and Martinez, so Cabrera was DH instead, and Don Kelly was the 3B instead of Brandon Inge. There wasn’t a whole lot of offense to report in this one, since there were less than ten total hits, as pitching dominated from the start.
The Tigers did got a base runner in the 1st inning, when Boesch struck out on a split finger in the dirt, but reached 1st because the ball went through the legs of Mathis and couldn’t get to the ball to make the throw on the dropped 3rd strike play. Ordonez hit fly outs to end the inning, so Haren actually had to get four outs to get out of the inning. He retired the side in order in the 2nd, helped out by a good running catch by LF Vernon Wells, running into left center to snag a deep fly ball by Peralta for the 2nd out, before Avila struck out looking to end the inning.
Verlander retired the side in order in his first inning of work, it cost the Angels more than just three outs, because Abreu was ejected by the home plate umpire for saying that the 3-2 pitch was low ( I read his lips). I guess he was tossed for continuing to argue, but the inning was over, and he doesn’t play the field, so I don’t see the big deal of at least discussing it, but Angel Campos instead decided to throw out one of the most mild mannered players in the game, after a 20-second argument. The Angels scored their lone run of the game in the 2nd inning, when Howie Kendrick hit a slow grounder to the SS, and was called safe on Peralta’s throw to 1st. It wasn’t a great throw; more of an off-balance flip that floated high, but it still beat Kendrick to the base, so he should have been called, but Joe West made the safe call. That of course prompted the Tigers’ manager Jim Leyland to come out and argue (and ask if the ruling was that Martinez was off the base when he caught the high throw), but Joe West was already waving him away before he got there, insisting that Kendrick beat the throw, and was so overly confident that he had the call right, and he couldn’t believe that Leyland would dare come out to argue. With Aybar up, Kendrick started for 2nd as part of a hit and run play, and Aybar hit a grounder into right field that Ordonez had to run towards the line to field. Kendrick was hustling around the bases, and continued chugging as the 3rd base coach sent him home when the throw went to 2nd, and the throw from Rayburn was too late. Kendrick scored from 1st on what was basically a single, that Aybar stretched into a double, as their aggressive base running earned them a run. Trumbo grounded out and Bourjos hit a fly out to strand Aybar at 2nd, but the Angels capitalized on another bad call by an umpire to score what turned out to be the winning run of the game. The ego of some of these umpires is just ridiculous, but if he cares at all, he will look at the tape and realize that he made another bad call, and maybe he will finally figure out that he is, in fact, not infallible.
The Tigers got their first hit of the game in the 3rd, when their leadoff man Austin Jackson got his 2nd turn at the plate, and tripled to deep right center with two outs. Brennan Boesch grounded out to the pitcher, on an inside slider, to end the inning, after fouling a ball off his leg on a similar pitch, which brought the trainer out to examine him for a few minutes and forced him out of the game in the next inning (replaced by Andy Dirks in the next inning.) Both pitchers only had one inning with any hardship from that point on, and it came in the 5th. After retiring the Tigers in order in the 4th, Haren allowed a leadoff single to Peralta in the 5th, and he moved to 2nd on a groundout (it would have been a double play if they hadn’t sent the runner on a hit-and-run play, so he got a head start to 2nd). Raburn tried to bunt, for some reason, and Haren pounced off the mound to make the play at 1st, but they had another runner at 3rd with two outs. Haren got the 9th place hitter, Don Kelly, out, throwing a slider in tight to induce a weak pop out to the SS, to end the inning.
Verlander set the Angels down in order in the bottom of the 3rd and 4th before hitting a roadblock in the 5th, when Aybar led off the inning with his second hit of the game, a broken bat single into right. Trumbo hit a hard grounder to 3rd that Kelly made a great diving stop on, but he got up and made a terrible throw, way over Martinez’s head at 1st and into the stands. It was ruled a hit plus an error, so runners were now on 2nd and 3rd with no outs, and Verlander then issued a four-pitch walk to Bourjos, so the Angels looked primed to push another run across, with the bases loaded and no outs. Verlander struck out Mathis, then got Izturis to pop out to the SS, and had a long battle with Hunter (who has hit Verlander well in his career), and after fouling off a few 3-2 fastballs, he hit scolded a line drive into center, but it was right to Jackson for the last out. The Angels blew a huge opportunity to extend the lead, and it looked like it could come back to haunt them later, but Haren made that 1-0 lead stick.
Another instance of umpire interference came up in the 6th inning, and this time it cost the Tigers their manager. During the inning, the 3rd base umpire, Angel Hernandez made Verlander get a new ball, accusing him of licking his fingers and not wiping them off, for the second time in the game, which Verlander didn’t appreciate too much and complained to the home plate umpire as he came out to trade balls. After Verlander got out of the inning, their manager called Joe West over to the dugout and yelled at him about that and probably the missed call at 1st again, to protect his players basically, and West was sick of hearing it, so he ejected Leyland. When Verlander was pulled in the 8th inning, he turned around and said one word to Hernandez at 3rd, which was enough to get him ejected by him, but before he even realized it, he said a few things to West over at 1st, on his way to the dugout. I’m surprised more pitchers don’t yell at the umpires more often as they leave the game, since getting ejected doesn’t really effect anything, when they are already out of the game.
After that previously mentioned single by Peralta, leading off the 5th, Dan Haren proceeded to retire every hitter he faced from then until the final out in the 9th (15 straight outs). He allowed just two hits in the game, and struck out nine batters, without allowing a walk, as part of a magnificent complete game shutout. He threw first-pitch strikes to 24 of the 30 hitters he faced, and nearly three times as many strikes as balls during the entire game. He was able to throw any pitch at any time, and changed up his pitch sequences as the game progressed to constantly baffle the Tigers’ hitters. If not for a blown call by an umpire, turning an out into a hit, the game may have remained scoreless, because Verlander only allowed 7 hits in almost 8 innings, and was the tough-luck loser, through no fault of his own. It looked like the Angels just said “Here’s your run, now get us a win”, and Haren somehow won 1-0 for the second straight game, to earn his 100th career win, with only his 4th ever complete game shutout. For a pitching nerd like me, it was a thing of beauty, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a pitcher win 1-0 twice in a row like that, at least not in the last few years.
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In Game 3, on Wednesday, the Angels got off to an early lead, but some poor defense and wild pitching, along with an assist by the dreadful umpiring of Joe West (again), allowed the Tigers back into the game and then eventually give up the win. Angels starter Tyler Chatwood walked more than he struck out (a problem for him this season), with no help from the home plate umpire Joe West, who refused to call strikes on several high-quality pitches, resulting in walks (extra runners) and extra pitches. The two runs he surrendered were unearned, and he was still in line for a win when he left in the 6th, but the bullpen were wild too and the walked batters spelled their demise in the end.
The Tigers’ Brennan Boesch remained out of the lineup after fouling a pitch off his right knee in the last game, so Don Kelly took over LF, while Andy Dirks played RF, instead of Magglio Ordonez, probably because it was a day game after a night game. Ramon Santiago played 2B instead of Raburn, and Brandon Inge was back at 3B. The Angels gave the day off to Erick Aybar, so Izturis took over SS, and Abreu played LF, to allow Vernon Wells to stay off the field as the DH, after tweaking his ankle in the last game.
Chatwood came in with a 5-5 record and very respectable 3.83 ERA, and got off to a shaky start, walking Jackson to lead off the game, and then allowing a single to Santiago, who just slapped one into left, to put two runners on for the middle of the lineup. During the at-bat to Jackson, the 2-2 fastball was above the knees and down the middle, but home plate umpire Joe West called it a ball, and Jackson thought it was ball four and went to all the way to 1st, before realizing it was just ball three. That comical mistake overshadowed the real issue, but it gave the broadcast extra time to show the replay with the strike zone box on the screen, which showed just how bad of a call that was. Joe West’s inconsistency and discriminatory strike calls would be an issue throughout the game; he at least lacked consistency, and I would go a step further and say showed favoritism to other pitchers, because he seems like that kind of person to me and everyone else who deals with him. Chatwood probably had his best three-batter-sequence after those first two reached, striking out Andy Dirks (batting 3rd for some reason) with a good fastball that moved across the plate to the outside corner. Then he fell behind mighty Miguel Cabrera (2-0), but blew him away with three straight 95+ MPH fastballs for three swinging strikes to get a big strikeout, and finished the inning with a good curveball to Martinez to induce the weak pop out on the infield.
The Tigers’ starter was Brad Penny, who had a 5-6 record, and 4.43 ERA, and pitched well after a poor start. The Angels barely scored one run to win the last game 1-0, so their 1st inning in this game was something of an offensive explosion. Izturis grounded out to lead off, but the Angels followed with four straight hits, beginning with an inside-out line drive by Torii Hunter, who hit an inside fastball into right field, for a single. Abreu worked the count full and, with Torii Hunter running, hit a grounder through the left side, to advance Hunter to 3rd, with one out. Vernon Wells, pulled a 2-0 fastball, down the left field line, for an RBI double, to push across the first run of the game. Howie Kendrick came up next with runners at 2nd and 3rd, and the first pitch from Penny was supposed to be outside, but he threw one that tailed to the other side and almost hit Kendrick in the foot, but [you guessed it] Joe West put up the strike signal. The count went to 0-2, and Penny tried another fastball, but it went right down the middle and Howie smacked a line drive back up the middle, to drive in two more, and make the score 3-0. Kendrick would steal 2nd, but Callaspo and Trumbo hit fly ball outs to end the inning….
Back to my umpire tangent, the pitch to Kendrick missed location by almost 2 feet (no exaggeration), traveled halfway into Howie’s batter’s box, and yet it was still called a strike!! That, my friends, is called favoritism, not just inconsistency, especially in context of this game, when so many strikes from the other pitcher were called balls. If I was Howie, I would have probably gotten thrown out after that one, because that was probably the worst call I’ve ever seen on a strike call. The first rule of umpiring is supposed to be: make the same call for both teams (i.e. all players), with no favoritism; their job is simply to be consistent, and now they won’t even allow another player or manager to question them when they’re so far from consistency it changes the outcome of games, because their ego has grown bigger than the game they are supposed to be monitoring.
In the 2nd, Peralta hit a grounder to Callaspo at 3rd, who nonchalantly went after it, and misplayed the ball off his arm, but luckily it bounced off his body in front of him, and Peralta is slow, so he had time to make the out at 1st despite the poor fielding. Avila walked, but Inge grounded into a double play to end the inning relatively quickly… In the 3rd inning, Don Kelly hit a fastball into center for a solid leadoff single, to start what would be a taxing inning for Chatwood. Jackson hit a high chopper to 3rd, and Callaspo decided to wait back for it, then unleashed a high throw to 1st, for a very costly error (and 2nd defensive mistake of the game really). With two men on, Santiago laid down a sacrifice bunt to the pitcher to move the runners to 2nd and 3rd. Chatwood had to throw five strikes to get three against Andy Dirks, thanks again to Joe West, who called the first pitch a ball even though it was a strike upon the replay, and then again on the 2-2 fastball, another ball on what was a strike, to force a full count. Chatwood struck him out swinging at a fastball for the 2nd out, which should have been the last out, if not for that error by Callaspo. Now he had to face Cabrera, who hits .390 with runners in scoring position this year, and once again got no help from the umpire. Chatwood did get ahead 0-2, but eventually went to a full count after his one curveball in the at-bat went in the dirt and was blocked nicely by Conger. His 3-2 pitch was a fastball again over the outside corner (inside to left-hand batters) and it was once again falsely called ball four, to extend the inning and load the bases for the DH Victor Martinez. He of course lined a single into right field, scoring two runs, to make it 3-2, thanks in large part to prejudicial judgments by the umpire who is supposed to be impartial. If a pitch crosses the plate in the strike zone, it is a strike, even if the pitcher is a rookie, and the hitter is a veteran; it’s as simple as that, unless you are a major league umpire, apparently….
The Angels offense did basically nothing from the 2nd inning on, until the last batter Penny faced in the 7th inning. He set them down in order in the 2nd, using his curveball to get two strikeouts and a groundout. Hunter singled to right to lead off the 3rd, in a carbon copy of his first hit, but he was erased on a double play by Vernon Wells, after Abreu made the first out. They went down in order again in the 4th, and Izturis walked in the 5th but that was there only base runner. In the bottom of the 6th, Abreu walked to lead off, but Vernon Wells hit into another double play to the 3rd baseman again for two quick outs. Kendrick checked his swing on a 1-2 curveball in the dirt, but Joe West called him out without appealing to the 1st base umpire (another pet peeve of mine). He turned around a stormed away, ignoring Kendrick’s inquiry/argument, only turning his head slightly to say something (probably something dismissive like “yes you did“, with his back toward him, because he was headed off the field, to the bathroom or water fountain. So, because he had to pee or was thirsty, he refused to even ask for help on a play he is supposed to, and disregarded any comment from Kendrick, who rarely complains about anything (he didn’t even flinch on that phantom strike call in his first at-bat).
In the top of the 4th, Joe West tried to give the Tigers the lead, calling ball four on a 3-1 fastball, to Don Kelly for an unearned walk, that shouldn’t have been. Then he did the same thing on a 3-2 fastball, in the same place, to Jackson, to turn a strikeout into a walk, and two runners on with two out. Santiago got the benefit of another call, when West called the 1-0 inside fastball, a ball, instead of strike two. He then singled into left field, but Abreu threw a good one-hop throw to Conger, who caught and tagged out Kelly, sliding into home, for the final out, keeping the lead in tact. Some forget how good of a throwing arm Abreu has, since he doesn’t play in the field much and is viewed as something of a liability because he isn’t very fast, but he leads active players in outfield assists for his career… Chatwood got his first 1-2-3 inning, in the top of the 5th, but Chatwood was already near 100 pitches (no thanks to the invisible strike zone) so his night was close to over. He came out to pitch the 6th and retired Peralta on a fly out, but that was his last batter, and Hisanori Takahashi was brought in to replace him. He walked the first batter he faced, Avila, but struck out Inge and got a fly out from Kelly to end the inning, and keep Chatwood in line for a possible victory with the 3-2 lead.
Unfortunately, it unraveled in the top of the 7th, as Takahashi came back out to pitch, and walked their fastest runner, and leadoff man, Jackson to start the inning, which is always a bad sign. Santiago put down another sacrifice bunt, moving Jackson into scoring position at 2nd base. Left-hand hitter Andy Dirks made contact with an 0-2 outside slider, and broke his bat, but it died a hero, as the ball blooped into right field, and enabled Jackson to score the tying run. Takahashi was then removed from the game, a little late in my opinion; I think allowing the leadoff walk would have been a good reason to pull him right there. Michael Kohn was brought in to face the slugger, Cabrera, but he surrendered the game-winning hit, as Cabrera pulled an inside 93 MPH fastball, muscling it over the left field fence for a two-run homerun and the 5-3 lead. Kohn retired Martinez and Peralta but the damage was done, and it can all be traced back to a leadoff walk in the inning.
The Angels were now down by two, going into the 7th, and Penny was in the midst of mowing through the Angels, so it wasn’t looking too good. He retired Callaspo to lead off the 7th, but the Mark Trumbo snapped the Angels funk, when he smashed a curveball into deep left center for a solo homer to bring them within one run. That was the first hit Penny allowed since the 3rd inning, and turned out to be the last batter he would face. David Purvey came in, and retired the two batters he faced to end the inning.
Rich Thompson came into the game for the Angels in the 8th, and pitched like he did earlier in the year, using his firm fastball and great curveball to dominate hitters and get easy outs. He got ahead of each hitter with fastballs, struck out the first two he faced with his big curveball, and then get Kelly to groundout to end the inning quickly. Benoit came in to pitch for the Tigers in the bottom half, and got Izturis to fly out leading off the inning. Hunter took a 0-1 fastball that was in the exact same place as the ones called a ball by West all game, when Chatwood threw it, but it was called a strike to make the count 0-2 (a big difference from 1-1), to the dismay of Hunter and everyone in the Angels dugout. Hunter grounded out on the next pitch, for the 2nd out, and Abreu drew a two-out walk, but the inning ended when Wells struck out on a high fastball. When an umpire bases his decision on whether a pitch is a strike on who is throwing it, and how long the game has been going on [in the hot weather, because he wants to go home] there is a problem.
Thompson pitched well again in the 9th, even though he walked Jackson (I have no idea why they couldn’t throw a strike to a guy who hits about .250 and is their fastest runner) . He retired Santiago, who popped up a bunt, then Dirks hit a fly out to right. Cabrera was called out by West, on a check swing, which made Cabrera angry and forced Leyland out to complain (he was due for that eventually). Once again he refused to ask for help, and it looked like he needed to catch a plane or something… Jose Valverde came in to close the game out for the Tigers and set the Angels down in order, to continue his perfect record in save opportunities, with his 21st save this season. Of course it had to end on another fraudulent call from Joe West, who called Trumbo out on an outside fastball, which was NEVER called a strike when Chatwood threw it, but became a strike since the game was almost over and it was a veteran pitcher on the mound.
Too many walks (8), and one major defensive miscue cost the Angels a chance at a sweep, but they still came away with the series win, to extend their streak to seven straight series victories as they continue their run to take over the lead in their division. Of course, the final two games could have ended differently, and were shrouded with controversy because of egomaniacal umpires who forgot what their job is. Umpires are getting worse, making bad calls, throwing out people because they dare complain (with just cause in most cases), while acting like fans come to the ballpark to see them, and hopefully these facts will bring on the advent of instant replay, so the game isn’t stained by these conceited, inconsistent, and seemingly biased men who think they are beyond criticism. I can’t wait!!
Wins (5-1 + 1-0), Loss 5-4 Record: 46-42
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