Boxscore Breakdown #37: Wright makes Angels look wrong – Orioles 3, Angels 0

After Saturday’s win, I commented on how the Angels had won five in a row but done so in an uninspiring way:

https://twitter.com/Garrett_MWAH/status/599765145708011520

I fully expected to get shouted down, but I wasn’t. In fact, everyone agreed with me. In other words, we all saw this coming. The Angels came out on Sunday and just laid down for a rookie in his debut, like they do. The winning streak is now over and the questions about the anemic offense can once again resume being asked without anyone trying to ignore them with the “yeah, but they’re winning” mindset.

Orioles 3, Angels 0

Run Expectancy Rundown
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[googleapps domain=”docs” dir=”spreadsheets/d/12RYlzvs3itifE99uGQ9Bt1vQZrIAhfPKrBIOYTM94C8/pubchart” query=”oid=1154832181&format=interactive” width=”620″ height=”341″ /] Adam Jones finally got loose in this series, which I am sure makes that one National League general manager who said he’d take Jones over Trout very happy. He’s still wrong, but for one day he was slightly less wrong. Baltimore didn’t really get anything else going aside from the run scored on a Richards wild pitch. Even then, they needed a Giavotella fielding miscue to set up the big hit from Jones.

Starting Pitcher Scores
[googleapps domain=”docs” dir=”spreadsheets/d/12RYlzvs3itifE99uGQ9Bt1vQZrIAhfPKrBIOYTM94C8/pubchart” query=”oid=161400381&format=interactive” width=”584″ height=”293″ /] Garrett Richards deserved better than this. He was absolutely terrific once more but was undone by his own wild pitches and defense, again. Seriously, that seems to be the blueprint to beating him now. Mike Wright made the Angels look just wrong. He isn’t even one of the highly touted Oriole pitching prospects, but the Angels made him look terrific. I suspect that is more the Angels being bad than him being good.

Bullpen Battle
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Game Flow
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Halo A-Hole

Johnny B. Not So Good. Johnny B. Really Bad, at least in this game.