Why I'm Not Furious At Either Ervin Santana Or The Angels For His Crappy Performance Tonight: Orioles 6, Angels 4

Oh, how I yelled fury at Ervin Santana in the first couple of innings of this game; his command was absolute garbage, and he was giving up longballs like batting practice. But by the time the game was over, I had an entirely different view of things. What else were the Angels gonna do? Matt Palmer was the obvious other choice, but he had been hammered in his last two starts; following his craptacular appearance in Arizona, his most recent and possibly final start with the Angels for a while, Mike Scioscia said "If he was making pitches and guys were hitting them, we'd be more concerned," Scioscia said of Palmer, who is 2-1 in his past four starts, despite yielding 18 earned runs in 22 innings. "What's happening is he's not making pitches as consistently as early in the year. "Matty's inability to control the count has caught up with him the last few games. He can pitch better than he's shown the last couple starts." And indeed, Palme...