It was a Friday Night in Oakland, and time for Matt Harvey to make his American League debut! The Angels were super jazzed and made a video.
Time for @MattHarvey33‘s Angels debut. Let’s #PlayBall! #TheHaloWay
🆚 Oakland Athletics
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📻 @AngelsRadioKLAA pic.twitter.com/JUfhKlkxoc— Los Angeles Angels (@Angels) March 30, 2019
The Angels have convinced themselves that Matt was unlucky this spring and that he’s super awesome at baseball. Sure Matt himself wasn’t sure he still wanted to play, but hey give the guy $11M and he’ll show.
Let’s check the keys to the game.
And after an 0-2 count, Matt was the victim of one of those unlucky leadoff walks.
Matt wouldn’t melt down on the Angels though. After all, the announcers said that his teammates chanted The Dark Knight in the locker room. Wait, they what???? Let’s check in with John Oliver.
Yeah Angels, really cool. And the end of the first is over and the no-hitter is intact!
In the second…nothing to report! The no-hitter is intact. The second inning was so fast I decided to stick around for one more, even though I want to go to bed.
The third inning? Well this MH recap sucks because my man is cruising, and he’s getting ground ball outs not the 389 foot fly outs we saw in Cincinnati.
And thank you Fox Sports West for this. It will be put to good use!
And in the 4th…another 1-2-3! This is the worst recap ever!
But it was 11:15pm and I needed to go to bed. Let’s let Yahoo finish this up.
Harvey pitched solidly in his Angels debut, Andrelton Simmons hit a tiebreaking single in the eighth inning and Los Angeles beat the Oakland Athletics 6-2 on Friday night for its first victory under new manager Brad Ausmus.
”He was really, really good,” Ausmus said of Harvey. ”He used all of his pitches, his velocity was up in the mid-90s, he threw some really good curveballs. I liked the fire that he showed.” (via Yahoo)
And it looks like I missed out on the fun recappable inning.
Harvey was at his best after giving up two walks and an infield single in the fifth. He struck out Ramon Laureano on three pitches and got Nick Hundley to ground into a double play. (Yahoo)
In the end, 6 innings, 2 runs, 4 hits and a strikeout. Not the Next Tom Seaver of your dreams, but not the nightmare that was the latter Mets days, and nothing for me to make fun of. (This post wasn’t funny at all.)
So it was off to date some models (no more SUPERmodels with that stat line, regular models will have to do) and grab some burritos and maybe celebrate being 30.
