Talk about a sinking ship. The Angels have lost their last six games and they’ve now sunk to last place (at least before some of tonight’s finishes) in the NL West. They’ve done it with some pretty poor hitting and it’s not surprising as both Vlad Guerrero and now Howie Kendrick are hurt. Vlad of course got nailed on the hand on Monday by Josh Beckett and now Howie Kendrick has an injured hand and is going to hit the disabled list. Not good at all.
The Angels scored their lone run of the series on Tuesday in a 4-1 loss to the A’s. Maicer Izturis doubled home Reggie Willits and that was it. Jered Weaver made his season debut and while he wasn’t horrible, he wasn’t perfect either so he took the loss. He gave up four runs (three earned) on four hits and two walks with four strikeouts in six innings.
This afternoon, John Lackey threw a decent game but the hitting was even worse as the Angels were shutout on five hits. Lackey gave up three runs on eight hits and two walks with four strikeouts in seven innings of work. Orlando Cabrera was the only Angel with two hits in the game.
Next up is three against the Mariners beginning tomorrow. Saturday’s game will be particularly interesting because Bartolo Colon will make his season debut after starting the season on the DL. We’d need to win all three just to get back to .500 and that’s the goal right now.
