BOSTON -- It was the kind of Angels debut
“He’s a guy I hadn’t seen before,” Ausmus said. “He had an immediate impact, obviously. The reports we had on him were that he’s an excellent defensive catcher. For us, it was the bat that made the difference today, because we needed it.”\n\nBemboom didn’t start but replaced
\n\nWe don't have a GIF or anything for Anthony Bemboom yet but we wanted to let you know his RBI single just gave us the lead. 5-4 Halos!
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\n\n“I was ready to swing \\[on\\] first pitch. Just see something up, put a swing on it,” Bemboom said. “I hadn’t faced him before so I wasn’t trying to go too deep into a gameplan. I just wanted to see it up and put a good swing on it.”\n\nIncredibly, it was the first swing of the day for the left-handed hitting Bemboom, who didn’t have any time for any swings in the cages before the at-bat.\n\n“That probably helped, to be honest,” Bemboom said. “I wasn’t thinking about it too much. It’s one of those things, you take a million swings, you’re thinking about it a lot.”
Bemboom also made a strong play defensively to help the Angels, easily throwing Betts out at second base as he attempted to steal in the eighth inning. It helped