{"id":15256,"date":"2011-05-03T12:42:28","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T17:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=15256"},"modified":"2011-05-03T12:42:28","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T17:42:28","slug":"al-betting-preview-l-a-angels-at-boston-red-sox-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/al-betting-preview-l-a-angels-at-boston-red-sox-game-2-15256\/","title":{"rendered":"AL Betting Preview: L.A. Angels at Boston Red Sox (Game 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Angels AT Boston Redsox<\/strong>
\nMay 3, 2011 at 7:10 PM EST<\/strong>
\nOpening Moneyline:\u00a0 BOS -150, LAA +130<\/strong>
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 BOS -152, LAA +142<\/strong>
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 7.5<\/strong>
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 7<\/strong><\/p>\n

SP:\u00a0 LAA- D. Haren, BOS- J. Lester<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Lester is projected to have a good year, and he's off to a good start<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Boston took game one of the series 9-5 yesterday (Mon), but the Red Sox still sit 2 games below .500, due mostly to their horrid start to the season.\u00a0 The Angels, conversely, sit 3 games above .500 at 16-13.<\/p>\n

Boston has won 14 of the last 15 meetings between the teams, and they have won all 5 this season against the Angels.\u00a0 The Red Sox have hit .293 with 21 homers in the last 15 meetings, while scoring 97 runs and giving up a mere 46.\u00a0 In their last 8 at Fenway, they’ve been even better, hitting .322 with 13 homers and 60 runs.<\/p>\n

Jon Lester won’t make life any easier on the Angels.\u00a0 In his last two starts against the Angels, he has recorded a 0.64 ERA with 13 Ks in 14 innings.\u00a0 He threw 6 scoreless innings and struck out 8 in a 4-3 victory…and the opposing pitcher was Dan Haren.\u00a0 Haren failed to record a quality start that game, pitching only 6 innings and giving up 4 runs (2 earned).\u00a0 In his last three starts, all wins, he has compiled a 1.35 ERA and allowed just 2 runs and 4 hits in 8 innings last time on the mound against Baltimore.\u00a0 Lester’s PECOTA projection predicted a 12-8 record with a 3.48 ERA.\u00a0 In addition to Lester’s solid pitching, this season against the Red Sox the Angels are hitting .200.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe (Lester) was really good,\u201d manager Terry Francona told the team\u2019s official website, \u201cand he needed to be because we had chances to spread it out and we didn\u2019t. But he pitched so well, he gave us enough time where we finally did.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was kind of a weird game. A couple of balls found holes, so it\u2019s not like it was flying everywhere,\u201d said Dan Haren, who has lost 3 straight now against the Red Sox.\u00a0 This year may be different, Haren is the AL leader in ERA with a 1.23 ERA, and he has a 4-1 record.\u00a0 His last start was obviously quality as well, giving up one unearned run adn 3 hits while pitching 7 innings in a 2-1 10 inning loss to the A’s.\u00a0 In his career against Fenway, he hasn’t been bad.\u00a0 He just hasn’t received a lot of run support, as his 3.81 ERA has rendered him still with a 1-4 record.\u00a0 Haren’s PECOTA projects a 15-8 record with a 3.19 ERA.<\/p>\n

The Red Sox may be without hot hitting Jacoby Ellsbury who bruised his knee.\u00a0 Ellsbury was in the midst of an 11 game hitting streak, a span in which he has hit .383.\u00a0 David Ortiz has also been very good and has a .381 ERA with 5 HRs and 8 RBIs in his last 12 meetings against the Los Angeles Angels.\u00a0 Against Haren Ortiz is 7 of 20 with one triple and three home runs.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

The total has gone OVER in 4 of the Angels’ last 6 games and the total has gone UNDER in 14 of the Angels’ last 21 games.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER in 4 of LA’s last 6 road games and the Angels are 9-3 SU in their last 12 on the road.\u00a0 The Angels are 0-5 SU in their last 5 games against the Boston Red Sox and the total has gone UNDER in 4 of the Angels’ last 6 games against Boston.\u00a0 The Angels are 1-7 SU in their last 8 games against the Red Sox.<\/p>\n

The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Boston’s last 9 games and the Red Sox are 11-5 SU in their last 16 games.\u00a0 Boston is 5-2 SU in their last 7 games at home and the total has gone UNDER in 4 of the Red Sox’s last 6 games against the Angels.\u00a0 Boston is 5-0 SU in their last 5 against the Angels and 7-1 SU in their last 8 home games against the Angels.<\/p>\n

Tonight’s game will be a real pitcher’s battle.\u00a0 It’s indicated by the 7 run line, and both pitchers sport outstanding ERAs.\u00a0 If Boston is missing Ellsbury, it may hurt their run production, but with Haren on the mound, they won’t need many runs anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Angels AT Boston Redsox May 3, 2011 at 7:10 PM EST Opening Moneyline:\u00a0 BOS -150, LAA +130 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 BOS -152, LAA +142 Opening Total:\u00a0 7.5 Current Total:\u00a0 7 SP:\u00a0 LAA- D. Haren, BOS- J. Lester Boston took game one of the series 9-5 yesterday (Mon), but the Red Sox still sit 2 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":4470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[69,4862],"class_list":["post-15256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-l-a-angels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15256","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=15256"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15258,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15256\/revisions\/15258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}