The 2023 Major League Baseball season of the Angels It started with a loss on MLB Opening Day. However, the ninth Angelina did not take long to put a line in the win column.
In the second game of their opening series, LThe Angels defeated the Oakland Athletics 13-1 with good performances by the Japanese Shohei Ohtani and the Mexican Patrick Sandoval.
The third chapter was a scoring explosion for the ‘Halos’ since they added 11 of their 13 runs. Ohtani drove in the first of his two RBIs in the game while Jake Lamb and Gio Urshela each sent two runners to the recorder.
Sandoval took advantage of his hitters and pitched five good innings to get his first win of the season.. The Mexican pitcher allowed two hits, a run on a home run by Ramón Laureano and struck out two of the 20 batters he faced.
The Mexican declared after the match to MLB.com that It felt good to have that advantage and not blow it..
“I just tried to keep up and make good shots,” Sandoval said. “It was good to get 11 runs in that inning. Playing five innings with an 11-run lead and not blowing it makes me very happy.” .
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Response from Anthony Rendón about altercation with Athletics fan
Yesterday, MLB announced that it has begun an investigation into the confrontation between third baseman Anthony Rendón and an A’s fan at the Oakland Coliseum and the Angels player today declared that cannot comment on the situation
In a video posted on social networks, Rendón holds a fan by his shirt and points out that he called him a ‘bitch’. The Los Angeles infielder continues with the attack while the fan denies having done it. Subsequently, the player of Mexican descent tried to hit him in the face, but failed to connect.