Angels Are On The Ropes

I never thought I would say that after the Angels beat the Yankees.

But here's the problem.

The Angels have not been able to get to the White Sox bullpen.

Mark Buerhle, Jon Garland and now Freddy Garcia, (pictured) have all pitched complete games. And Jose Contreras in game one got pulled in the 9th with one out.

The Angels have only faced the White Sox bullpen for 2/3 of one inning in 4 games.

Neal Cotts came in and faced 2 batters in the game one loss to the Angels.

This is not the way to beat the White Sox.

The White Sox have a great pitching staff, no question, but they are weak in the bullpen. The way to beat the Sox is to get to the bullpen early.

The only hope the Angels have is that they face Contreras again tomorrow, hopefully he is tired from his long outing on Tuesday. And then Buerhle is tired and then Garland...etc. you get the idea.

But I wouldn't count on it.

I just hope the Halo's can put together some hits.

It seems they are in fact deflated from the umpire ending the game on them in Wednesdays defeat. Just for the record, the Ump didn't cost them the game, he just ended the game. The chance of the Angels scoring a run against The Sox was pretty slim anyway.

They have no offense to speak of.

The Sox have outscored the Angels 17-8 so far.

Vlad has 1 hit in 16 at bats, Anderson has 2 hits in 16 at bats, B. Molina is 2 for 13, Figgins-1-14, oh, I could go on.

This is a team that needs to pick up a bat tomorrow if they want to play any more this season.

I will now say, Scioscia is not yet in the class of a Joe Torre, he is not showing that he can pick up his team in the tough times.

But please, Mike Scioscia, prove me wrong, win this damn series!

PLEASE, PROVE ME WRONG!