by Amaury Pi Gonzalez

photo credit bleacher report photo of MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred

OAKLAND–Everything in baseball is moving towards social media and now MLB is allowing fans to vote on different categories for players who achieved top status. This is a great move by MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred who is presiding, baseball as long as we know has been through a lot of changes with the clocks, in between innings, the replays. Baseball is going through a transformation and it’s good that their going through it with social media. That’s the way to do it now and that’s the way of the future.

Can the Angels get back in the race?: The Angels who are four games out of the first place spot for the wild card have a very interesting line up. Except Seattle and Oakland, all the other adversaries are teams that are ahead of them. Right now the Angels are in Seattle. Then after the series in Seattle they go to Minnesota for four games.

The Angels need to beat Minnesota because the Twins are ahead of them in the wild card standings. Then after Minnesota they go to Houston which they took two out of three. I got to broadcast the worst loss for the Angels it was last Sunday. The Halos had a three run lead with two outs in the top of the ninth and Houston Street whose leading the American League in saves with 35 was pitching.

Street got blown up as the Astros scored five runs unanswered in the top of the ninth and the Angels lost again on Monday night in Seattle 10-1. I said this on the air and I hate to say it and you want to be positive on the air when you broadcast for a team. We mentioned that loss as fatal for the Halos.

The Angels could have swept the Astros they had a terrific homestand, they could have swept the Astros a first place team and with two outs and two strikes and there was a three run homer by former A’s Jed Lowrie a pinch hitter none the less. In the end the Astros scored five runs off the Angels. The Astros beat the Angles, the Angels control their destiny because their playing teams that are on top of them but they can’t afford to lose them.

Anaury Pi Gonzalez is the Spanish radio voice for the A’s, the Spanish TV voice for the Angels, and does News and Commentary each week for http://www.sportsradioservice.com