Sam Blum
Angels and MLB Writer at The Athletic
Angels and MLB writer @TheAthletic. Host of the Calling All Halos podcast. Email me: [email protected]. @dailyorange C/O 2016.
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nytimes.com | Sam Blum
ARLINGTON, Texas - It was a party on the mound this spring. Or at least, that's what the 5-year-old daughter of Tyler Anderson thought when she went to watch her father make a start out in Arizona. Anderson is a 10-year MLB veteran, a perfectionist on the mound. A cerebral personality, at least four out of every five days. But don't let the sub-90 miles per hour fastball fool you. On his start days, he's nonetheless one of the most intense pitchers the game has to offer.
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nytimes.com | Sam Blum
For his 44th birthday, just one month ago, Bobby Jenks asked his family to buy him a tent. It was a gift he knew he couldn't use, not right now. It was more about what it represented. Someday, when his body allows, he wants to take his family on a road trip through Europe, stopping to camp along the way. "We understand that may not be possible," said his mother-in-law, Kate Souglides.
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nytimes.com | Sam Blum
The Los Angeles Angels are funding and supporting the legal defense of Eric Kay, the team's former communications director who was sent to prison for providing the drugs that caused the death of the former Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs, say lawyers for the Skaggs family.
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nytimes.com | Sam Blum
HOUSTON - Mike Trout did something on Friday night that has long been the bane of his baseball existence: He turned on a four-seam fastball that clipped the top of the zone - a pitch he typically struggles to hit - sending it over the Crawford Boxes in left field for a long home run. It was a small sign, but a good one for Trout. The narrative of his last four seasons has been of the premature end to his once-elite prime. The narrative for this season, he hopes, is one of redemption.
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nytimes.com | Sam Blum
HOUSTON - An Astros fan was relocated to different seats after ripping a ball out of Mike Trout's glove on a foul ball that went into the first row of the right field seats. The play was eerily reminiscent of the infamous foul ball incident during Game 4 of the 2024 World Series, when a New York Yankees fan took a ball from the glove of Los Angeles Dodgers right fielder Mookie Betts.
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FINAL: The Angels follow up their 10-run win yesterday with an 11-run, 14-3 loss in Houston today. Jack Kochanowicz couldn't get the last out of the fifth inning, and everything went downhill from there. The Angels are 8-5.
The Angels are not using a position player to pitch, down 8 runs in the 8th. They also didn't sub Mike Trout out of the game.
The Angels got the first two outs of the 5th inning, no problem. Six Astros batters have come up since. All of them have scored. 7-2, Houston.