Imagine if you were an Angels fan, how annoying it’d be, getting to regularly enjoy watching two of the best athletes in the game, and yet all people wanted to talk about was how disappointing your team is.
Well, allow me to opine that the Angels are pretty disappointing. Tonight, a lineup featuring Mike Trout, Shohei Ohtani, and Taylor Ward (.304 BA, .935 OPS) was shut out for six innings by a pitcher who looked, for approximately half of his start, like garbage.
It’s easy to marvel at those dominant outings where aces roll through lineups, but in a way it’s cooler to see someone on your team grit their way through a start when they’re firing blanks.