Trumbomb But No Sweep (23/81)

The Yankees ran away with the final game of the series and beat the Angels 6-5 Wednesday night.

Mark Trumbo hit his 4th home run in as many games, Mike Trout hit a 2-run double, but it wasn't enough to overcome an early hole set by the home run king, Ervin Santana.

Ervin Santana now leads the league in most home runs given up this season with 15. He and Scioscia tried to argue that its because Santana is aggressive and throws the ball hard. Yeah, it's okay to be aggressive, but creativity is more important when you're not missing bats. Santana needs to start pitching smarter. End of discussion.

Bullpen woes have all but disappeared during the 8 game win streak, but they came back in the form of Hisanori Takahashi. The middle-reliever came in to shut down the Yankees, but instead gave up a triple and a sacrifice fly to put the Angels down in the whole again. That's just devastating after you've been battling back from a 5-1 deficit, but hey, it happens.

Angels will face the Texas Rangers this weekend, and you can bet that I'll be there. Texas is coming off a couple of embarrassing losses to the Seattle Mariners, so you know they're coming to town with something to prove.

Pujols and Trumbo Homer, Angels Spank Yanks (22/81)

The Angels got their 8th win in a row Tuesday as they defeated the Bronx Bombers 5-1.

Mark Trumbo and Albert Pujols each hit home runs, and the Angels speedy youngsters in the outfield robbed a couple of them from the Yankees.

Dan Haren pitched beautifully, and now has 21 strikeouts and no walks in the last two games.

It wasn't a good day to be Nick Swisher as Peter Bourjos ran into the wall catching one of his line drives, and Mike Trout (above) robbed a would-be Swisher home run.

Quick question: How the heck can AT&T U-Verse NOT televise this game? At first I didn't care, but this squabble between U-Verse and Fox Sports is really starting to piss me off.

TRUMBOMB Walk-Off Leads to 7th Win in a Row (21/81)

"Exciting" would be an understatement to describe the Angels 9-8 win over the visiting New York Yankees tonight. "Explosive" would be more like it.

The Angels are walking around with a lot of swag lately as they extended their winning-streak to 7 games tonight and their record to .500 thanks to a walk-off home run by Mark Trumbo and some great team hitting, including a home run by Mike Trout (above).

For those that complain that baseball is too boring to ever watch, I invite them to watch this drama-filled game.

First, Angels lost their ace pitcher, Jered Weaver, after only 12 pitches due to a back injury. It looked bad. The guy may very well be out for a few weeks, but we'll see once they've ran some tests. Following the loss of their best pitcher, the Angels then gave up 3 runs to the Yankees in the first inning, digging themselves into an early hole with nothing but their bullpen to get them through the next 8 innings.

The team that scores first, usually ends up winning, unless of course the other team outscores your run total in the bottom half of the inning. The Angels strung together some key hits, and sure enough, after the first inning, the score was 4-3, Angels. Keep in mind, the Yankees get to keep hitting against the Angel's bullpen for the rest of the game and answered right back in the top of the 2nd to tie the game with a Curtis Granderson home run.

In the 3rd, Angels got lucky as Granderson and right fielder, Nick Swisher, ran into each other for a Trumbo triple. Howie Kendrick hit him in with a sacrifice fly. Angels up 5-4.

Trout homered in the 4th, but Mark Teixeira homered in the 5th. Angels got two runs in the 6th that looked like it might put the Yankees away, but the Bombers tied it up in the 7th with 3 more runs. 8-8.

Jordan Walden, who has been shaky all season until recently, came in and blew through the 8th inning. He did so well, needing only 8 pitches to get through, that Mike Scioscia brought him back for one more. Walden was still throwing heat, but ran into some trouble and loaded the bases with two outs. A bouncing ground ball to Albert Pujols' right ended the inning with a bang-bang play at second.

Now I was watching the game at home tonight with my dad, and he really likes calling shots. He calls so many shots that the Law of Averages states he has to get them right every now and again. Sure enough, not a minute after he said Trumbo would hit a walk-off home run, Trumbo hit a TRUMBOMB to kingdom come.

Hopefully Angels keep this win-streak going for the rest of the season. They only need to win 19 more games in a row to tie the longest win streak held by the 1916 New York Giants. Piece of cake.