Rob McMillin

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• Posted Angels Beat Afflecks to LAist
  In case you missed it, the Angels are on one heck of a tear, going 19-6 so far in July. Prior to this one, the Angels hadn't posted a winning decade once in its history, so you might be surprised to learn that even if they close out tonight's game against the A's with a win and finish 20-6, they still wouldn't break the team record for the best month in club history. That...
• Posted Dodgers Drop Three More, Skid Into Last Place to LAist
  Way back when, back on July 7, the Angels were dead last in the AL West, and ESPN's Keith Law recommended the Angels look toward 2007 and throw in the towel on 2006. Of course, a short note to Law revealed he had written the piece at the end of June when the team was seven games out and playing through a miserable stretch. Lackluster, error-prone, and unable, in Tommy Lasorda's memorable phrase, to...
• Posted Trade Deadline Rumors to LAist
  If it's trade rumors you're after, this is a remarkably weak season for them. With about 20 teams in at least theoretical contention, almost nobody is selling, and almost no club is in a position where fixing one weak position will vault that team over their division rivals. With only six days left until the trade deadline (after which players are required to clear waivers), the list of likelies is shrinking faster than the...
• Posted Dodgers Slump Continues to LAist
  One of the problems of writing about a bad team is that generally it's hard to say anything new about what's going wrong with the team. Usually, it's the same failures by the same players day in and day out, and after a while, everyone looks listless, the hitters press, and the pitchers can't make outs. The Dodgers, losers of ten of eleven games since the All-Star break and 6-14 in July, have had...
• Posted The Streak Ends, And Then Some to LAist
  After a perfectly wretched first half, the Angels concluded their run into the All-Star break on a tear, taking three straight from Oakland. They started their second half just as hot, sweeping the mostly hapless Tampa Bay Devil Rays at home, despite some peculiar moves by Mike Scioscia, who apparently likes to announce his intention to use the suicide squeeze so often they're thinking of putting the hotline on speed dial. The Angels then...