Boxscore Breakdown #46: Less than zero – Padres 4, Angels 0

What’s the only thing worse than a typical shutout? Getting shutout in extra innings. It is a shutout plus some. It is an exaggerated display of your own incompetence. You’ve been given extra opportunities to get on the board and yet you still fail. It is the salt in an already open and festering wound. It is the Angels offense.

Padres 4, Angels 0

Run Expectancy Rundown
[googleapps domain=”docs” dir=”spreadsheets/d/1XfkkN-h37Od5E-9YbPgvR-dKkWsfWMoq37dqevljiMQ/pubchart” query=”oid=1976391661&format=interactive” width=”623″ height=”389″ /] Albert Pujols is doing that thing again where he clusters a bunch of singles together to make us think that he’s finally going to turn his season around. It hasn’t taken so far, but maybe the fifth time is the charm. Everyone else was terrible and useless, even Albert. There is a reason nobody was on the positive side of the axis, after all.

[googleapps domain=”docs” dir=”spreadsheets/d/1XfkkN-h37Od5E-9YbPgvR-dKkWsfWMoq37dqevljiMQ/pubchart” query=”oid=1154832181&format=interactive” width=”620″ height=”341″ /] Was it just me or did it seem painfully obvious that after striking out the excellent Justin Upton that Smith would suffer some let down and give up the game-losing hit to the mightily struggling Matt Kemp? Will Venable had a solid night at the plate, but his biggest contribution was saving the game with a home run robbery of Mike Trout. Will Venable: hater of greatness.

Starting Pitcher Scores
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Bullpen Battle
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Game Flow
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Halo A-Hole

Smith would be the easy choice, but I refuse to blame him for getting forced into a bad situation by an inept offense. No the honor goes to David Freese who had two of the best chances to put the Angels on the board and he failed both times.