{"id":15011,"date":"2011-04-19T12:36:46","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T17:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=15011"},"modified":"2011-04-19T12:36:46","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T17:36:46","slug":"al-betting-l-a-angels-at-texas-rangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/al-betting-l-a-angels-at-texas-rangers-15011\/","title":{"rendered":"AL Betting: L.A. Angels At Texas Rangers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Angels (10-6) AT Texas Rangers (11-5)<\/strong>
\nApril 19, 2011 at 8:05 PM EST<\/strong>
\nOpening Moneyline:\u00a0 TEX -170, LAA +150<\/strong>
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 TEX -183, LAA +173<\/strong>
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 9.5<\/strong>
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 9<\/strong><\/p>\n

SP:\u00a0 LAA- M. Palmer, TEX- C. Lewis<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The struggling Colby Lewis takes the mound for the Rangers tonight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Rangers still have yet to lose a home game and could improve to 8-0 at home this season with a win over the visiting Angels tonight.\u00a0 When the Rangers reached their first World Series in 2010, their longest win streak at home was 7 games.\u00a0 They opened the series against the Angels with a 7-1 victory on Monday.\u00a0 Starting pitcher CJ Wilson struck out nine batters in 7 and Adrian Beltre homered for the second straight game and the Angels had a 5 game win streak snapped.\u00a0 The Angels hit well, but choked with runners in scoring position, hitting .125 (1 of 8).<\/p>\n

Angels manager Mike Scioscia took a diplomatic approach to the defeat.\u00a0 \u201cThose guys beat us today,\u201d manager Mike Scioscia said. \u201cWe didn\u2019t execute some things on the mound and at the plate, but we\u2019re not that far off.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adrian Beltre tied Mark Teixiera for the major league lead with 4 games with at least 3 RBIs.\u00a0 He is 14 of 36 with 12 RBIS over the last 9 games, which constitutes a 9 game hitting streak.<\/p>\n

Ian Kinsler rebounded from an 0 for 18 streak to record two extra base hits and the #2 batter in the lineup Elvis Andrus had 3 hits as well after hitting a 4 for 39 stretch.<\/p>\n

The Angels have dropped 14 of their last 20 in Texas and Angels outfielder Torii Hunter recognizes the challenge posed by Texas:\u00a0 \u201cThey know us, we know them.\u00a0 We\u2019ve got to keep pounding. We know it\u2019s going to be a grind.\u201d<\/p>\n

Neither pitcher in this matchup is having a particularly good season.\u00a0 Palmer is at 7.71 and Lewis is at 5.25.\u00a0 Palmer’s WHIP is particularly bad at 2.36, and he has recorded only 2 strikeouts so far.\u00a0 He gave up 5 runs over 4 2\/3rds innings of play in a 14 inning win over Toronto.\u00a0 He started in place of the injured Scott Kazmir.\u00a0 In his lone start against Texas, however, he only gave up 1 hit in 5 innings as the Angels won 5-0.<\/p>\n

Lewis has only started one game, a game in which he gave up 5 runs over 6 innings, in a loss to the Orioles.\u00a0 He went on paternity leave and is making his return to the lineup today.\u00a0 In his 2 starts against the Angels he is 0-1 with a 3.00 ERA.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

The total has gone UNDER in 7 of the Angels’ last 8 games and the Angels are 5-1 SU in their last 6 games.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 4 of their last 5 on the road and the Angels are 5-1 SU in their last 6 on the road.\u00a0 The Angels are 2-4 SU in their last 6 games against the Rangers and they are 3-8 SU in their last 11 road matchups against the Texas Rangers.<\/p>\n

Texas is 2-4 SU In their last 6 games and they are 11-5 SU in their last 16.\u00a0 The total has\u00a0 gone UNDER in 4 of their last 5 games and they are 5-0 SU in their last 5 games at home.\u00a0 Texas is 4-2 SU in their last 6 games against the Angels and the Rangers are 8-3 SU in their last 11 games at home against the Angels.<\/p>\n

Today’s game should be interesting.\u00a0 Both pitchers are struggling but could find their groove against a team they have pitched well against in the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Angels (10-6) AT Texas Rangers (11-5) April 19, 2011 at 8:05 PM EST Opening Moneyline:\u00a0 TEX -170, LAA +150 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 TEX -183, LAA +173 Opening Total:\u00a0 9.5 Current Total:\u00a0 9 SP:\u00a0 LAA- M. Palmer, TEX- C. Lewis The Rangers still have yet to lose a home game and could improve to 8-0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":4497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[479,771],"class_list":["post-15011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-texas-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15012,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15011\/revisions\/15012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}