NJ

Fan of the Angels,Lakers,Seahawks,& horse racing too 😎🏇💙🌊

[NJ @NJinHB]

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[AngelsWin.com @AngelsWin]

Tomorrow @VictorRojas, @GeoffStoddart & @ChuckRichter70 are back in the studio to record episode 41.

The focus will be on the upcoming trade deadline, post draft discussion, Trout & Rengifo’s return and what to expect for the rest of the 2024 campaign. #RepTheHalo

[AngelsWin.com @AngelsWin]

THIS DATE IN #ANGELS HISTORY July 14th, (2003)

Garret Anderson wins the HR Derby at U.S. Cellular Field, outlasting St. Louis’ Albert Pujols in the final round.

Anderson would go on to claim All-Star Game MVP honors joining Cal Ripken as the only players in All-Star history to capture each award.

From our Greatest Moments in @Angels History #42
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If the Angels were to retroactively come up with a slogan for the 2003 season, it might have been “Come bask in the afterglow of 2002.”

As April rolled around, and pennants were hoisted up gold painted flagpoles, Angels fans were still drunk on World Series emotion. Only trouble was the players seemed to be, as well.

The team sleepwalked through April, May and June and arrived at July with a perfectly mediocre 40-40 record. But with fans flocking to Edison Field in record numbers (attendance would surpass 3 million for the first time ever in 2003), most of them wearing something bearing the words “2002 World Champions,” it was difficult to be too disappointed.

Heading into the All-Star break, however, the team finally seemed to recapture a little bit of the 2002 magic of which it was constantly reminded on the scoreboard in right field. They won nine of their first 12 games in July, including five straight before the break. Sure, they were still 8.5 games out of first, but it was better than the 12.5 deficit they faced when the month began.

And for two amazing days at Chicago’s U.S. Cellular Field, it was like October all over again. The Angels had three players selected to the American League squad: Garret Anderson, Troy Glaus and Brendan Donnelly, the latter of whom was in the midst of one of the best relief seasons in franchise history. He hit the break with a 0.38 ERA, having given up only two runs in 48 innings pitched.

On top of that, as American League champions the previous season, Mike Scioscia was the A.L. manager, bringing his entire coaching staff along with him. The Angels presence in Chicago was already assured, but this contingent seemed determined to be seen and heard.

The most improbable of events actually occurred first; in hindsight a harbinger of things to come. Garret Anderson, who hit 22 home runs in the first half of the season, beat out former teammate Jim Edmonds in the semifinals and then 23-year-old phenom Albert Pujols in the finals to win the Home Run Derby.

“I don’t look at myself as a home run hitter, but I know I’m capable of hitting the ball out of the park,” Anderson said. “It’s just another platform to go out and show America what I can do.”

The GA show wasn’t done, either. The next night, with the American League trailing, 5-1, in the sixth inning, Anderson smoked a two-run homer to right-center on Woody Williams’ first pitch to pull the A.L. within two runs.

Donnelly pitched a perfect top of the eighth to hold the N.L. lead at 6-4. In the bottom half, Anderson’s one-out double off the Dodgers Eric Gagne, his third hit of the night in four at-bats, started a three-run rally that was capped by Hank Blalock’s game-winning two-run home run.

The A.L. won, 7-6, Donnelly was the winning pitcher, Scioscia the winning manager and Anderson named the game’s MVP, his second trophy in as many nights.

It was an outstanding night and the perfect denouement to the championship season. But, of course, all good things must come to an end, and those two nights in Chicago were indeed the end of the afterglow. The Angels lost their first five games after the break and finished the season 77-85, in third place, 19 games behind the A’s.

For a couple of days, however, the defending champs looked every bit the part.

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[Mike Trout @MikeTrout]

Little brother is here! Beckham’s sidekick has arrived. You fill our hearts with so much joy, Jordy Michael! God is so good🙏🏻

June 30th, 2024
8lb 2oz
21 inches
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[AngelsWin.com @AngelsWin]

Win or Lose, the 2024 Angels never quit.

You gotta love that. Especially when it’s coming from the future of the club.

[Sam Blum @SamBlum3]

Taylor Ward is OK, Ron Washington said. He said Ward cleared a concussion protocol.

Washington also said he received an apology from AJ Hinch and Shelby Miller.

[B/R Walk-Off @BRWalkoff]

On this day in 2012, Mike Trout made THAT catch to rob JJ Hardy in Baltimore 🤯

(via @Angels)

[NFL @NFL]

Travis, Taylor and the Royal Family at the Eras Tour in London.

(via @taylorswift13)

[NJ @NJinHB]

Hell yeah!! Angels win!! 😇

[Jeff Fletcher @JeffFletcherOCR]

Here's Hans Crouse getting congrats from his teammates upon learning of his promotion to the Angels.

(Also, a Miguel Sanó sighting, in case you wondered what happened to him.)

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

One of the most ridiculous catches ever. Willie Mays goes way up.

[Smithsonian Magazine @SmithsonianMag]

Welcome to Old Friends Farm, an idyllic retirement home for racehorses, with 236 grassy, gently rolling acres in central Kentucky. https://t.co/4zErKBJl71

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

The cat just accepted its fate.. 😂

[Jonathan Adamany @JAdamany]

@LAmag Absolutely correct. It's a dead giveaway of someone not being from California.

[NJ @NJinHB]

Yep! It's SoCal or NorCal to all of us,no one says "Cali" 🙄

[Los Angeles Magazine @LAmag]

Do you agree?

[Dr. Lucy Jones @DrLucyJones]

Remember that the @USGS_Quakes has a website to report what you felt and that information will be used by the scientists. Did You Feel It? https://t.co/RX5Ll05X7k

Both the M3.6 and its aftershock are up on the site

[Barbara D. Livingston @DRFLivingston]

Preakness winner SEIZE THE GREY, vanned here from Churchill Downs today, seems happy to be in Saratoga! ⭐️

Trained by Wayne Lukas, the feel-good son of Arrogate is scheduled to run in the June 8th Belmont Stakes.

[Jeff Fletcher @JeffFletcherOCR]

There’s a cool new feature in the visitors clubhouse in Seattle. They have a framed newspaper representing a great moment in the history of every other franchise. Here’s the Angels.