“After the first three games you want to try and put a stop to things,” Canning said. To me he’s been very selective, swinging at the right pitches and got the good part of the barrel on one today.”Ĭhris Devenski (3-0) pitched 1 2/3 scoreless innings for the win against his first major league team, and Carlos Estévez got four outs for his 14th save.

“Three hits last night and a big home run today. “He’s really swinging it well,” Nevin said. Luis Rengifo hit his third homer for Los Angeles, which stopped a three-game slide. “Maton is one of the toughest against a lefty in all of baseball. “Just a really good at-bat understanding what the pitcher is trying to do,” Angels manager Phil Nevin said. The clutch swing gave Ohtani 41 RBIs on the season. Ohtani was hitless before clubbing a pitch from Phil Maton (0-1) off the wall in right field, driving in Gio Urshela for a 2-1 lead. On the other hand, some also noted that MLB's 2010 rule change was basically to outlaw low-density maple bats because they kept shattering ( one player was infamously impaled by a shard during a game that year), though the league also decreased the maximum circumference from 2.75 inches to 2.61 inches, as Verducci reported.HOUSTON (AP) - Shohei Ohtani hit a tiebreaking RBI double in the eighth inning, and the Los Angeles Angels edged the Houston Astros 2-1 on Sunday to avoid a four-game series sweep. The Astros' cheating scandal leaves little room for nuance for most fans, though, so the Maldonado revelation awakened a lot of ire still directed at the team. Of course, it should go without saying there is a difference between a group of players making a conscious decision to use a camera feed to illegally relay pitch signals in real time all the way to a now-tainted World Series and one player using the wrong bat for one game his team lost. So Albert Pujols could use that bat but Maldonado, who began his major league career in 2011, was not legally able to use that bat.'Īwkward, given the Astros' recent history in the World Series.

'In 2010, Major League Baseball changed the bat specifications and that bat that Pujols modeled was no longer legal, except if you were playing prior to 2010 it was grandfathered in.

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