{"id":16215,"date":"2011-06-24T14:56:44","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T19:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=16215"},"modified":"2011-06-24T14:56:44","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T19:56:44","slug":"battle-for-l-a-angels-open-3-game-set-against-dodgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/battle-for-l-a-angels-open-3-game-set-against-dodgers-16215\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle for L.A.: Angels Open 3 Game Set against Dodgers"},"content":{"rendered":"

LA Angels (37-39) AT LA Dodgers (34-42)<\/strong><\/p>\n

June 24, 2011 at 10:10 PM EST<\/strong><\/p>\n

Opening Line: \u00a0LAA -140, LAD +120<\/strong><\/p>\n

Current Line: \u00a0LAA -129, LAD +110<\/strong><\/p>\n

Opening Total: \u00a06.5<\/strong><\/p>\n

Current Total: \u00a0 6.5<\/strong><\/p>\n

SP: \u00a0LAA- Dan Haren, LAD- Rubby De La Rosa<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Haren's ERA over his last ten starts is 3.73<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The so-called “Freeway Series” between the two Los Angeles baseball teams begins tonight, and excitement runs high for fans and players in this matchup.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always exciting when we play the Dodgers,\u201d Angels outfielder Torii Hunter said. \u201cThere\u2019s an electricity in the air with all the blue and red, fans getting into it. It\u2019s an exciting series and time for everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hunter may be excited, but he’s having the worst year of his MLB career with only a .243 batting average. \u00a0He’s been very good in interleague play, though, as he has a 22 game road hitting streak in interleague play and is hitting .390 with 5 homers in that span. \u00a0If he hits today, he’ll match Jeter’s 23 game hitting streak from 2005 to 2007.<\/p>\n

First year Dodgers manager Don Mattingly doesn’t want to put too much emphasis on the series, however. \u00a0\u201cIt\u2019d be nice to win some games within the Angel-Dodger thing, but we\u2019re not in any position where we can put more importance on one game than another,\u201d Mattingly said.<\/p>\n

The pressure will not be on Hunter, though, but rather on Angels’ pitcher Dan Haren, who is coming off his worst performance of the season. \u00a0He gave up 6 earned runs in 4 innings in a 6-1 loss to the Mets.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the course of the year it\u2019s going to happen, even to the best of them,\u201d Haren said. \u201cI never really got into a rhythm.\u201d<\/p>\n

The outing before that wasn’t particularly great either, a game in which he gave up 3 earned runs in 6 innings. \u00a0His ERA is still solid on the year though, and he has a 2.96 ERA to go with his 6-5.<\/p>\n

A lack of run support has hurt Haren, too. \u00a0He’s gone 2-5 with a 3.73 ERA over his last 10 starts, while receving a pathetic 2.12 runs per game. \u00a0In his first five starts he kept his ERA so low it didn’t matter, when he went 4-0 with a 1.16 ERA.
\nRookie Rubby De La Rosa will take the moud for the Dodgers. \u00a0He’s 3-1 with a 4.58 ERA on the year but suffered a bad loss to Houston on Saturday in which he gave up 5 runs in the 5 inning, before exiting the inning with 2 outs still to go. \u00a0In his first 5 appearances, two of which were starts, he was 3-0 with a 3.00 ERA.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

The LA Angels are 4-2 SU in their last 6 games and they are 4-2 SU in their last 6 on the road. \u00a0The total has gone OVER \u00a0in 8 of the last 11 games against the Dodgers and the Angels are 5-1 SU in their last 6 against the LA Dodgers. \u00a0The total has gone OVER in 4 of the Angels’ last 5 games on the road against the Dodgers and the Angels are 6-1 SU in their last 7 games on the road against the LA Dodgers.<\/p>\n

The LA Dodgers are 3-6 SU in their last 9 games and 3-7 SU in their last 10 at home. \u00a0The total has gone OVER in 8 of the Dodgers’ last 11 games against the Angels. \u00a0The Dodgers are 1-5 SU in their last 6 games against the Angels. \u00a0The total has gone OVER in 4 of the Dodgers’ last 5 games at home against the Angels. \u00a0The Dodgers are 1-6 SU in their last 7 at home against the Angels.<\/p>\n

This game will offer a chance for Haren to rebound from his last performance and given the nature and type of pitcher he is, I would expect that to happen. \u00a0The Angels are slight favorites, and rookies can be erratic, so De La Rosa will have to be steady and not have a bad inning like he did in his last appearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LA Angels (37-39) AT LA Dodgers (34-42) June 24, 2011 at 10:10 PM EST Opening Line: \u00a0LAA -140, LAD +120 Current Line: \u00a0LAA -129, LAD +110 Opening Total: \u00a06.5 Current Total: \u00a0 6.5 SP: \u00a0LAA- Dan Haren, LAD- Rubby De La Rosa The so-called “Freeway Series” between the two Los Angeles baseball teams begins tonight, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":15593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[479,429],"class_list":["post-16215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-los-angeles-dodgers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16215","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=16215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16216,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16215\/revisions\/16216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}