Angels and Indians press the reset button on the Thursday after the scheduled Justin Masterson-CJ Wilson Wednesday's match was postponed due to rain.
The postponement gives Cleveland one day attack reevaluate how blazing star of Los Angeles, Mike Trout.
After reaching base three times and swiping a couple of bags in the party of the series on Monday, Trout hit a pair of homers and a double in the 9-3 win over the Angels on Tuesday.
Since his batting average dropped to .263 on May 19, Trout has published a .410/.475/.819 slash line in 101 plate appearances. He racked up 17 extra base hits in his last 22 games.
"I'm just being patient and not try to do too much," Paul said after Tuesday's game. "I'm squaring some balls."
Cleveland manager Terry Francona jokingly suggested that the rest Halos trout.
"In fact, I love that he should rest tomorrow," Francona said after his team's defeat on Tuesday. "He has the chance to be a very good player who does not want to exhaust."
Trout did receive a day off, but so did everyone because conditions were considered too extreme to play Wednesday in the progressive camp.
Francona and Angel’s manager Mike Scioscia chose to push their regular starters return one day Wednesday.
This means Masterson gets the chance to avenge a bad start last time out.
As Cleveland posted the second shortest start of his career in his last outing, allowing five runs on three hits while walking four in two innings against the Red Sox, inflating his ERA to 5.05 on the season. He threw only 28 of his 59 pitches were strikes.
"It's been an interesting season for me," Masterson, who had a 3.45 ERA and three shutouts in 2013 said. "I threw too many balls [on my last outing.] That's roughly what happened."
The Angels could be the perfect team to start their Masterson turnaround. In 13 career appearances (10 starts) against the Angels, Masterson is 4-1 with a 2.84 ERA.
The last time Wilson to the Indians, who held them to one run and two hits in eight innings in victory April 30 faced. The left-hander has had a rough June until now, seeing his ERA jump from 3.05 to 3.50 after going 1-2 with a 5.63 ERA (10 earned runs in 16 innings) in three starts this month.
Wilson allowed four runs for the Braves in his last start, and would not take solace in the fact that after a rough first recovered.
"Not satisfy everyone - who lost," Wilson said. "It [stinks]. Gives you four runs. You make a good game plan. You spend four or five days planning the launches and you are going to throw a couple of errors and give back-to-back runs in the first. There is nothing good about it. "
Angels: Cron sits back
It was a promising start to the race Angels rookie first baseman / designated hitter CJ Cron.
Cron took only 106 plate appearances to accumulate 12 extra-base hits, good for a .461 slugging percentage.
However, a recent fall and dissolved in interleague road trip now the Halos' limited playing time lately Cron. Cron has not started a game in seven-game road trip to Los Angeles, and he was not penciled in the lineup Wednesday before rain wiped out play.
With Albert Pujols at first base locked and Raul Ibanez win the lion's share of at-bats as the designated hitter against right, the role of Cron has mostly been relegated to Dhing against lefties.
"Since I've been here I've kind of platooned," Cron said. "He has not changed. Come to the field every day like I'm gonna play. If I'm not in the lineup, I will help the team later in the game."
Indians: Brantley has a mild concussion
If Wednesday's game had been played, Michael Brantley, would not have been in the lineup.
For the second straight game, Cleveland budding gardener was forced out of the lineup after being diagnosed with a mild concussion.
"The way it was explained to me that is the kind of turmoil that will disappear faster," Francona said. "And I think we're really seeing that."
Francona said that because of the concussion is less severe, you may Brantley, who leads the team in homers, RBIs and runs scored, could avoid the DL concussion 7 days and be back on the court Saturday.
"If he is playing Saturday, he's good," Francona said. "Because that's the last thing we want to do is run someone out there that should not. But because of the importance of training and who is, we would try to have him back as soon as we can."
Note
- • Trout leads the American League with a .610 slugging percentage and is second with 155 total bases. He's on pace for a career-high 353 total bases.
- • At 38-32, the Angels have improved seven games after 70 games last season.
- • From 21 April 0.328 batting average of Angels shortstop Erick Aybar Dominican is tops for a major league shortstop, while his 31 RBIs lead the American League shortstops.
- • Lonnie Chisenhall snapped a 0-for-13 performance with two hits against the Angels on Tuesday night. It was his ninth multihit game since May 30.
- • The tribe saw its 10th home game winning streak with the loss Tuesday night against the Angels.
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