Two of\u00a0MLB’s best\u00a0daytime\u00a0clubs faceoff on Thursday afternoon at the Oakland Coliseum.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles Angels at Oakland Athletics<\/strong><\/p>\n Los Angeles started a new winning streak on Wednesday night, picking up a 7-1 road victory over the Oakland Athletics.\u00a0 Since May 14th<\/sup>, the Angels lead the American League with an 18-8 record, winning nine of the last 11 contests.\u00a0 Tonight the Angels play the 11th<\/sup> game (8-2) of a season-long 14-game, 14-day road trip to Kansas City (3-1), Seattle (3-0), Oakland (2-1) and Los Angeles.\u00a0 Through the first nine games of the trip, the Halos have outscored opponents by a 61-33 margin.\u00a0 The team moved its record to 7-2 to open the month (+480) and is a dominating 57-29 in June since the 2007 season.\u00a0 In the Angels five victories over Oakland this season, they have outscored the Athletics 35-9.<\/p>\n Angels SP Ervin Santana is 11-2 with a 1.54 ERA in 16 career starts against the Athletics (+740).\u00a0 The right-hander is also 5-0 with a 1.80 ERA since dropping a game to the Mariners on May 9.\u00a0 \u201cErvin Santana has been terrific,\u201d manager Mike Scioscia said.\u00a0 He is 4-2 with a 2.61 ERA in seven road starts this season (+130), including a 3-0 mark and 0.90 ERA since the aforementioned loss at Seattle.\u00a0 Santana is 3-2 with a 3.51 ERA in six daytime starts this season, which offers little difference between his nighttime numbers (3-1, 3.07).\u00a0 The Angels have won his last five starts, providing 44 runs of support in the process.<\/p>\n Oakland came into Wednesday night\u2019s game having tallied a season-high 18 hits the night before, but the offense sputtered against Los Angeles Angels southpaw Joe Saunders.\u00a0 \u201cAgain, we run into big Joe,\u201d said Athletics starter Dallas Braden.\u00a0 The A\u2019s have hit a Major League-leading 12 home runs in June after tallying just 15 in both April and May.\u00a0 Oakland has a solid 15-7 record (+960)\u00a0during day games this season compared to a 16-22 mark at night.\u00a0 The daytime mark is the best in baseball and can be contributed to the team having a 2.96 ERA during the day, which is also the best mark in the majors.<\/p>\n Athletics SP Trevor Cahill is scheduled to make his ninth start of the season, going 4-2 with a 3.21 ERA in his previous eight outings (+360).\u00a0 The young right-hander has allowed one run in three of his last four starts and is 3-0 with a 2.16 ERA over that span.\u00a0 He checks in with a 1-1 career mark and 3.04 ERA in four starts against the Angels, but was the losing pitcher in his only start against them this year, a 4-0 loss at Los Angeles on May 16.\u00a0 Cahill looks to remain perfect at home, posting a 2-0 record and 2.04 ERA in three starts at the Oakland Coliseum (+120).<\/p>\n The home team\u2019s best record in daytime baseball is neutralized in knowing the Angels are 14-8 under the sun as well this season (+680).\u00a0 In fact, Los Angeles is an amazing 82-34 in day games the last three years (+4,920).\u00a0 Oakland is 20-13 at home this season (-670) and an even 3-3 as a home underdog of +100 to +125 (+30), which might entice bettors enough to wager on them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two of\u00a0MLB’s best\u00a0daytime\u00a0clubs faceoff on Thursday afternoon at the Oakland Coliseum. Los Angeles Angels at Oakland Athletics Los Angeles started a new winning streak on Wednesday night, picking up a 7-1 road victory over the Oakland Athletics.\u00a0 Since May 14th, the Angels lead the American League with an 18-8 record, winning nine of the last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[1443,1805,1807,479,1449,1808,1806],"class_list":["post-4018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-dallas-braden","tag-ervin-santana","tag-joe-saunders","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-oakland-athletics","tag-oakland-coliseum","tag-trevor-cahill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4018","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\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4018"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4020,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4018\/revisions\/4020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}