Boxscore Breakdown #122: Walked all over – Blue Jays 9, Angels 2

What happens when you walk four batters in one inning? You set yourself up to get metaphorically walked all over the rest of the game. That’s what happened for Hector Santiago and the Angels who once again dug themselves an early hole that the offense was totally incapable of digging the team out of.

Blue Jays 9, Angels 2

Run Expectancy Rundown
[googleapps domain=”docs” dir=”spreadsheets/d/1qhHH-qOFmcleqy1IvXZi0nrn4ikfuhxf2XN9c2-fZUk/pubchart” query=”oid=1976391661&format=interactive” width=”623″ height=”389″ /] Facing David Price is no easy task. Facing any pitcher with a pulse hasn’t been an easy task for this lineup lately, so I guess we should consider ourselves lucky that they even got two runs off of him. Kole Calhoun had a homer and Chris Iannetta had a pure luck double, but maybe one that can help shake him out of his deep, deep slump. Ryan Jackson sure didn’t make a case for him being an upgrade over Taylor Featherston.

[googleapps domain=”docs” dir=”spreadsheets/d/1qhHH-qOFmcleqy1IvXZi0nrn4ikfuhxf2XN9c2-fZUk/pubchart” query=”oid=1154832181&format=interactive” width=”620″ height=”341″ /] Josh Donaldson strengthened his MVP credentials and Ben Revere strengthened his “guy the Angels fans wish the team had traded for instead” credentials. Cliff Pennington being awful is really the only thing that went right for the Halos.

Starting Pitcher Scores
[googleapps domain=”docs” dir=”spreadsheets/d/1qhHH-qOFmcleqy1IvXZi0nrn4ikfuhxf2XN9c2-fZUk/pubchart” query=”oid=161400381&format=interactive” width=”584″ height=”293″ /] Price was terrific because he’s David Price, who is terrific. Hector Santiago was just a disaster in that first inning. Amazingly, he could’ve gotten out of it relatively unscathed if Shane Victorino had just made that catch which he really should’ve made. Hector really wasn’t all that bad after the first, which is the real shame of Shane going all Shanf on that eyes closed sliding catch attempt.

Bullpen Battle
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Game Flow
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Halo A-Hole

Four walks in an inning is too much.