And it Gets Worse

Game One
Game Date: July 21, 2009
Los Angeles @ Kansas City
Angels 8, Royals 5 / Box Score
WP: Santana (3-5), LP: Ponson (1-6), SV: Fuentes (29)
KC Home Runs: None
Royals Record: 37-55 / Record in July 4-12

This one was about what we expected. Sidney Ponson struggled. The bullpen struggled even more. And Trey Hillman was left saying this: “We battled back and scored some runs, scored more than our average, that’s a positive. We’ve got to keep the opposition off the board.”

Game Two
Game Date: July 21, 2009
Los Angeles @ Kansas City
Angels 10, Royals 2 / Box Score
WP: O’Sullivan (3-0), LP: Chen (0-5)
KC Home Runs: None
Royals Record: 37-56 / Record in July 4-13

At the risk of repeating myself, who expected anything different? We’re at the back end of our rotation running a pitcher out there who doesn’t belong in the major leagues and we’re asking him to stop the first place Angels. Then when he pitches better than we might have hoped, we ask a dreadful bullpen to stop the Angels. Yeah, right.