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Los Angeles Angels
-The Angels open their first road trip of 2010 with stops in New York and Toronto. The Halos were tied for the MLB-lead (Phillies) with 48 road wins in 2009.
-Los Angeles finished with a 2-5 record on their seven-game opening homestand versus Minnesota (1-3) and Oakland (1-2).
-The team will fly the most air miles of any team this season (50,509), while the
Chicago White Sox will fly the least (22,832).
-Stranded 51 baserunners over their first seven contests.
-After posting a 6-3 win on Opening Night, the Angels have been outscored 41-18 over the last six games. The Angels have allowed a home run in all seven games and have been outhomered 12-8 thus far.
-Relievers opened the season by tossing 11 scoreless innings, but have surrendered 17 runs (14 earned) in 11 innings since (11.45 ERA).
-Over the first week of the season, the Angels starting pitching ranks last in the AL with a 1-5 record and a 5.63 ERA. Starters logged a 2.52 ERA over the final 34 games in 2009 and led the AL with 70 wins and six shutouts last season.
-The Halos are 33-20 in their last 53 overall games against the New York Yankees.
-Over the last four seasons, the Angels own a team batting average of .303 against the Yankees, their best average against any AL opponent in that span.
-SP Ervin Santan is 5-2 with a 5.21 ERA in eight career starts versus New York. His last win came on August 1, 2008 at New York.

Arizona Diamondbacks
-Today is the first of 18 meetings with the Dodgers in 2010. The D-Backs trail in the all-time series 94-110, including 31-41 since 2006.

-The Diamondbacks won the first two series of the season for the first time since 2002 and only the third time in franchise history.

-By hitting 4 home runs in a game for the second time this season on Sunday, the D-Backs are second in the NL with 12 home runs through 6 games - behind the Cardinals 13 in 7 games.

-Currently lead the NL by seeing an average of 4.05 pitchers per plate appearance after ranking ninth in the league last season.

-Arizona currently leads the league with a .991 fielding percentage, after committing the second-most errors (124) and third-most unearned runs (71) in the NL in 2009.

Kansas City Royals
-The Royals offense, which had been held to a total of 17 runs through their first 5 games, have crossed the plate 16 times in their last 2, including topping double-digits in a 10-5 win yesterday at Comerica.

-Kansas City opens today leading the Majors in stolen bases with 11 while not yet being caught attempting to steal.
-SP Brian Bannister opened 2010 on a personal high note last Thursday at the K, allowing just 1 run on 6 hits in 6 innings of work. He dropped his career ERA for the month of April to 3.17 - his lowest of any month. He also possesses a 7-4 career record in the season's first month.

-After going 5-4 with a 2.98 ERA in 9 games during the day last saeson, Banny is now 17-8 in 32 career day games. He ranks sixth-best among all active Major Leaguers with at least 30 daytime starts with a .680 day winning percentage.

-Bannister is 3-0 with a 0.45 ERA in 3 career starts at Comerica Park.

New York Yankees
-The Yankees have dropped the opening game of each of their two three-game series this season, only to take the final two games on both occasions.

-2B Robinson Cano has hit safely in each of the Yankees' six games to start the season, owning a .364 combined batting average over the last two Aprils with 7HR and 22RBI.

-New York is 70-36-1 in all-time home openers coming into 2010. They dropped last year's first game, 10-2 vs Cleveland, after winning a MLB record 11 straight from 1998-2008.

-Posted the best regular season home winning percentage in the Majors in 2009, going 57-24 in the Stadium's inaugural year.

-LHP CC Sabathia and A.J. Burnett have pitched back-to-back games 21 times since joining the Yankees in 2009 - of those 21 instances, the Yankees have lost both contests just once.

-Over the last five games, the Yankees bullpen has given up just 2ER and 2BB in 13.2IP, going 2-0 with a 1.32 ERA.
-RP Mariano Riveral has converted his last 47 save opportunities at home.
-SP Andy Pettitte has gone 26-15 as a Yankee in the month of April.


Detroit Tigers
-The Tigers lost 10-5 to the Kansas City Royals yesterday afternoon, snapping the club's four-game winning streak. SP Max Scherzer (0-1) started and took the loss after allowing five runs (two earned) on nine hits in five innings of work.

-MLB announced that Miguel Cabrera was named AL Player of the Week for the season's first week. Cabrera batted .522 (12x23) with six runs scored, two home runs and eight RBI.

-Brandon Inge has hit safely in seven consecutive games to open the season, batting .345 during the streak.
-Detroit enters today's game leading the American League with a .295 batting average and .388 on-base percentage. The club is second with 40 runs scored and tied for second with 33 walks.

-The Tigers have turned 13 double plays in the club's first seven games of the season - the most among all AL clubs.
-SP Dontrelle Willis has a 14-2 record and 3.32 ERA in 24 career starts during April. Willis is making his ninth appearance - eighth start at Comerica - going 2-3 with a 6.08 ERA in his previous eight outings.