Boxscore Breakdown #75: Knotted up – Angels 4, Mariners 2

The Angels knotted up their series with the Mariners and knotted up Robinson Cano‘s forehead thanks to an errant warm-up throw from Taylor Featherston. Yes, “errant” throw. Errant like a fox!

Robinson Cano gets hit in the head with a ball, Albert Pujols gets mad. pic.twitter.com/pOIM3AeOLx

— Justin Russo (@FlyByKnite) June 28, 2015

Angels 4, Mariners 2

Run Expectancy Rundown
[googleapps domain=”docs” dir=”spreadsheets/d/1DDqhHVKgwkhVw3GJfKuVoRkODFpKjFN1c-uHeM-YsG8/pubchart” query=”oid=1976391661&format=interactive” width=”623″ height=”389″ /] Featherston was last in RE24, but that doesn’t account for him “accidentally” taking out Robinson Cano. That has to count for something, right? Kole Calhoun tapped into his long lost power for a two-run shot as he slowly tries to rebuild his approach now that he’s hitting in front of Trout again.

[googleapps domain=”docs” dir=”spreadsheets/d/1DDqhHVKgwkhVw3GJfKuVoRkODFpKjFN1c-uHeM-YsG8/pubchart” query=”oid=1154832181&format=interactive” width=”620″ height=”341″ /] Even before he took one to the dome, Cano was having a pretty bad day. Mike Zunino, who is one of the worst hitters in baseball, took Garrett Richards deep, which was kind of weird.

Starting Pitcher Scores
[googleapps domain=”docs” dir=”spreadsheets/d/1DDqhHVKgwkhVw3GJfKuVoRkODFpKjFN1c-uHeM-YsG8/pubchart” query=”oid=161400381&format=interactive” width=”584″ height=”293″ /] Aside from that Zunino dinger and the Cruz double, Richards was locked in. He left the game with two outs in the eighth and had only thrown 94 pitches. J.A. Happ was actually pretty good too, which is a damning indictment of the Halos offense.

Bullpen Battle
[googleapps domain=”docs” dir=”spreadsheets/d/1DDqhHVKgwkhVw3GJfKuVoRkODFpKjFN1c-uHeM-YsG8/pubchart” query=”oid=1141913419&format=interactive” width=”620″ height=”315″ /] Huston Street made things interesting in his save attempt. Other than that, the only bullpen development of interest is that former Angel Mark Lowe is still alive.

Game Flow
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Halo Hero

Sure, it was against the Mariners, but Garrett certainly looked ace-like once again.