MILWAUKEE – Typically, when a manager asks his closer to record a six-out save, it speaks to how desperately a team needs to secure a victory.
That was only partly true of Joe Smith’s performance to close out the Angels’ 7-3 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Wednesday afternoon.
Mostly, it was that Smith was essentially the only reliever who wasn’t pitching on fumes after a week in which the Angels starters have heaped far too much work on their bullpen counterparts.
“I had a pretty good feeling from the start that I was going to somehow get multiple innings today because of how much everyone else was used,” Smith said.