The Angels love a nice homestand because it gives them the opportunity to take a week off. It is awfully kind of Arte Moreno to bestow so many vacation hours upon his employees, even if it does make for some less than entertaining baseball.
Jokes aside, this could have been a good game. There are so many scenarios a fan of this team could play back in their mind that would have created such a nail-biter.
What if Jefry Marte didn’t try to Frisbee the baseball to Heaney? What if Maldonado could remember how to catch a baseball and make it look like it was in the strike zone when it absolutely was?