General

#Angels rip Giants pitcher Shaun Anderson after third Mike Trout scare

#Angels rip Giants pitcher Shaun Anderson after third Mike Trout scare

August 21, 2020 | 9:02am

SAN FRANCISCO — Angels star Mike Trout flinched after yet another high-and-tight fastball from San Francisco reliever Shaun Anderson, prompting a warning from the plate umpire Thursday night in the Giants’ 10-5 win over Los Angeles.

Two days earlier in Anaheim, Trout was upset when Anderson twice threw near his head in the ninth inning. After that game, Giants manager Gabe Kapler said he was giving Anderson, a 25-year-old with control issues, some needed work after not pitching for a while.

This time, the three-time AL MVP turned his head after another heater sailed up and in. Angels manager Joe Maddon loudly cursed and complained before emerging from the dugout to continue — after this week’s previous episode, Maddon said of Anderson: “That’s just a young man that’s not ready to be here, that’s all that is.”

Maddon didn’t mince words after seeing it happen again.

“Enough was enough,” he said. “I don’t want to use the word ‘irresponsible’ loosely but in that situation, you pretty much knew it was going to happen again. I’m not accusing the guy of doing anything on purpose. I’m just saying he doesn’t command his fastball enough in order to know where it’s going.”

Maddon wouldn’t call the pitches to Trout intentional but was incensed after it occurred three times in two games.

“A player of Trout’s stature, third ball in the (two games) that we’ve faced them. Too close, too close,” Maddon said. “It can’t happen. It just can’t happen. The kid’s got eight walks in nine innings, so it’s not an anomaly moment for them.”

Mike Trout
Mike Trout glares at the Giants dugoutAP

A few people in the Giants barked back as Maddon came onto the field and the umpires conferred in the infield, prompting the warning from plate ump Lance Barrett.

Once play resumed, Trout tripled off the fence in left field.

Kapler declined to discuss the situation.

“On a night where Joey Bart got his first major league hit, when he led us to a major league win, and when Brandon Crawford hit his 100th major league home run … anything I say related to that is going to distract and I’m just not going to do that,” Kapler said.

Wilmer Flores homered and drove in four runs for the second straight day and Mike Yastrzemski had a two-run double to lead San Francisco.

Crawford hit his milestone homer and Austin Slater added a pair of hits and scored twice as the Giants won their third straight.

Anthony Rendon had three hits and two RBIs for the Angels. He extended his hitting streak to 10 games but the Angels fell to 8-18, the worst start in franchise history.

Flores hit a two-run homer off Angels starter José Suarez on a 3-2 pitch, his second in two days with a full count. Flores walked and scored in the second, had a two-run single in the third and singled again in the fifth.

Over his last seven games, Flores is hitting .414 ( 12 for 29) with three homers and nine RBIs.

Kevin Gausman (1-1) struck out eight and allowed four runs in 5 1/3 innings to win.

Crawford hit his milestone home run off Julio Teheran in the fourth.

“It’s really cool,” Crawford said. “It’s something I never really dreamed of doing in the major leagues, being able to hit 100 homers.”

Suarez (0-1) allowed five runs, five hits and retired only four batters. The left-hander, who was called up from the alternate training site before the game, has not won in 13 consecutive starts dating to last season.

If you want to read more Sports News articles, you can visit our General category.

if you want to watch Movies or Tv Shows go to Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com for forums sites go to Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com

Source

Related Articles

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Back to top button
Close

Please allow ads on our site

Please consider supporting us by disabling your ad blocker!