Angels: You’ve Got To Like These Kids - The 110 Report - The 110 Report - A Los Angeles Sports Site

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It’s About Time! - The 110 Report - The 110 Report - A Los Angeles Sports Site

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The Angels Rain on Boston’s Parade - The 110 Report - The 110 Report - A Los Angeles Sports Site

Typically a strength in Anaheim, it was the Angels’ pitching staff that set an ominous … [visit site to read more]

Jered Weaver Leads Race for L.A. Angels’ Ace in 2010 - The 110 Report - The 110 Report - A Los Angeles Sports Site

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Halladay To The Angels Is Just What The ‘Doc’ Ordered - The 110 Report - The 110 Report - A Los Angeles Sports Site

The Angels had a tough time against the Yankees' offensive power.

After 171 grueling regular and postseason games, after all of the ups and downs, tragedies and triumphs, the Los Angels Angels of Anaheim are getting a preemptive jump on the offseason.

It’s not the Angels’ fault, per say. I cringe to even think it, but though the differences were minor, the New York Yankees were simply the better team, throughout both the regular season and the American League Championship Series.

The starting pitching was fairly evenly matched, but they featured a dominant lefty in CC Sabathia whom the Angels couldn’t touch, while we countered with a sure-fire klutz in Scott Kazmir.

Seriously now, did have one solid inning this postseason?

The Yankees’ bullpen was a bit shaky in the series, but the great Mariano Rivera picked Angels batters apart and helped bolster their creaky relief core.

Meanwhile, the Angels chose to stick with Brian Fuentes, a closer who looked like his mission was actually to blow every save he was handed this year, and just failed 48 times.

More than anything though, the difference between these two teams was the power. Up and down the Yankees’ lineup, guys were belting home runs with ease.

On our side of the dish, it was a struggle just to get the ball out of the infield for everyone who wasn’t named Jeff Mathis.

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Angels Get Yanked From Playoffs, Fans Suffer 5 Stages of Sports Grief - The 110 Report - The 110 Report - A Los Angeles Sports Site

Jered Weaver didn’t bring his best stuff to the mound today. He got his pitch count up early, and his fastball was very hittable. He battled through five innings, allowing five hits and three walks while striking out four. He was undone by three solo homers, the first coming from Derek Jeter on the third pitch of the game. To Weaver’s credit, he worked out of some serious jams. In the second and fourth innings, he found himself with two runners on and no one out, and was able to work out of it both times. He left after a fifth inning in which he allowed the third solo homer of his day, a fastball that was hit over the short wall in right field by Johnny Damon.

In the bottom of the fifth, Howie Kendrick started the comeback with a solo shot of his own off of Yankees starter Andy Pettite. Kendrick crushed an inside fastball into bullpen in left field. An inning later, Bobby Abreu worked a one out walk. With two outs, Vladimir Guerrero hit a towering shot over the wall in left field to tie the score at three.

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Angels Stay Alive, Beat Yankees 5-4 - The 110 Report - The 110 Report - A Los Angeles Sports Site

The Yankees got the scoring started in the second inning. Nick Swisher worked a two out walk, and Robinson Cano tripled him home. Derek Jeter’s third inning homer gave the Yankees a 2-0 lead. The Angels got both runs back in the fifth inning. Maicer Izturis led the inning off with a ground rule double, and Erick Aybar singled him home. After Chone Figgins was hit by a pitch, and Torii Hunter walked, Yankees starter A.J. Burnett threw a wild pitch that scored Aybar to tie the game.

The bullpens battled it out into extra innings, with Joe Girardi burning through his best pitchers early, while the Angels went to the 10th with some of their best arms unused. In the 11th inning, Gary Matthews walked to lead off the inning. After Aybar bunted him to second, Chone Figgins singled him home to give the Angels a 3-2 lead. Mike Scioscia called upon closer Brian Fuentes to end the game, but he surrendered a lead off home run to Alex Rodriguez that tied the game. It came on an 0-2 pitch, but in Fuentes’ defense, the ball barely cleared the wall in right field, and would have been a routine fly ball in every single professional ball park in the country. Only in the joke of a ball park they built in the Bronx would that be a home run. Yankee Stadium is really an embarrassment to baseball.

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Angels Throw Away Game 2: Yankees 4, Angels 3 - The 110 Report - The 110 Report - A Los Angeles Sports Site

The Angels’ offense, prolific in Monday’s series opener, failed to create many opportunities, and squandered the opportunities it did create.  Mariners rookie Doug Fister allowed just five hits and two walks over 7.1 innings, and the bullpen closed the deal for the home team.  The Angels put the lead-off hitter on base in six of their nine at bats.  Three times the runner was erased via the double play (including a strike-him-out throw-him-out double play in the first inning), and three times the runner advanced no further than the base at which he started.

The night’s largest failure came in the eighth inning.  With the Angels trailing 2-1, Maicer Izturis led the inning off with a double to right field.  But Erick Aybay fouled out, failing to move Izturis to third.  Consecutive fly-outs from Mike Napoli and Chone Figgins stranded Izturis at second.

Ervin Santana became a victim of low run support for the second straight game.  He lasted six innings and allowed only one run.  But he was also a victim of his own high pitch count, leaving after 100 pitches even.  Darren Oliver relieved him in the seventh inning, and allowed a two out double to Jose Lopez which scored Franklin Gutierrez from first base for the eventual winning run.

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Angels Fall to Ms: Angels 1, Mariners 2 - The 110 Report - The 110 Report - A Los Angeles Sports Site

Three of Four in Baltimore: Angels 8, Orioles 5 - The 110 Report - The 110 Report - A Los Angeles Sports Site