Things May Be Looking Good, But Can The Angels Keep It Up?

If you remotely follow baseball you are aware of the fact that last season ended pretty ugly for the Angels following a complete sweep in the divisional round against the Kansas City Royals.

But now Anaheim is looking to return the favor to their opposition.

Following Sunday night’s win 4-2 win at home, the Angels completed a very impressive sweep of the Detroit Tigers.

Normally the Tigers aren’t the kind of team to go down without a fight, but Anaheim was making them look pretty pathetic in desperate.

The final tallies from the four-game series were 12-2, 2-0, 8-6, and 4-2.

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So the Angels showed us they can blow teams out as well as stay just one step ahead of them and still pull out the victory.

Late inning heroics in the 8th were required to come out with  a win last night, but a win is a win, especially in the game of baseball.

The Angels are now seriously focused on catching the first-place Houston Astros (31-20), who sit four games ahead of Anaheim at the moment.

But regardless of how the regular season plays out, the Angels still will have the playoffs to worry about.

Much like their Anaheim partner-in-crime in the Ducks, the Angels get red-hot during the regular season, often towards the top of the power rankings and what have you.

But then when the playoffs come it’s like their as nervous as some kids are asking that one girl to prom or on a date.

It just all goes bad.

Usually by the time the playoffs roll around, there are obvious weak spots in any and all of the teams that made it to that point.

But with the Angels, it feels as if none of their serious flaws show until the first game of the playoffs when their opponent exposes it by accident.

Take last season, again, as an example.

Nobody thought that the Royals would be able to win in Anaheim against the team the Angels convinced they were at that point in time.

Unless you were that one die-hard dude in white and blue with a ten foot cowbell in the parking lot and a beer belly that would make Chris Farley jealous, of course.

Don’t take that as a derogatory knock to Royals fans, because there are plenty of wonderful, true fans of their team that they’ve loved since as long as they can remember.

But KC was the underdog of underdogs in the playoffs last year, and they should know that better than anyone.

What the Angels can do to fix their playoff woes this coming September and October is also simple — staying confident, but finding  a way to be the underdog.

Bottom Line: Sometimes being the underdog is better

The Angels have the firepower to come back from an early deficit in any particular game, but not enough to come all the way back from even a minor series deficit.

We saw the Angels completely deflate after losing just the first game to the Royals.

Instead of trying their best to even the series, everything just fell apart.

Let’s hope 2015 is different.