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Recommendation: Angels -120<o></o>
The Angels enter the home stretch of the season as one ofthe best teams in the league while playing in the toughest division inbaseball. They had won 4 in a row before Huston Street blew the save in the 9[SUP]th[/SUP]inning Sunday. The starting pitching staff has posted a solid 2.05 ERA in thelast 7 games. C.J. Wilson has had his share of struggles this year, but didlook good in his last outing while allowing 2 runs in almost 7 innings againstthe Phillies. As long as he doesn’t get “blown up” the Angels will have enoughfire power to come out of this one on top. <o></o>
Josh Hamilton received a day off yesterday so he should befresh and ready to go. Both he and teammate Mike Trout have great career numbersat Fenway Park. They’ll be facing Brandon Workman, who is 1-6 with a 4.45 ERAon the season. Workman had shown glimpses of strong pitching earlier in theseason. Things have dropped off significantly and now he’s taken the loss in 6straight outings. He missed his last start due to fatigue and also leaves mostof his pitches up in the zone. That’s a bad combination against an Angel’slineup that will take advantage of mistakes and tee off on balls up in thezone. <o></o>
I’ll call the starting pitching a wash due to how bad Wilsonhad been prior to his last outing. Big offensive advantage to the Halos though.If we throw in the fact that Boston has nothing to play for while the Angelsare in a race for the division, a significant edge goes to the visiting squad.Take the Angels. <o></o>
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></o>Recommendation: Angels -120<o
></o>The Angels enter the home stretch of the season as one ofthe best teams in the league while playing in the toughest division inbaseball. They had won 4 in a row before Huston Street blew the save in the 9[SUP]th[/SUP]inning Sunday. The starting pitching staff has posted a solid 2.05 ERA in thelast 7 games. C.J. Wilson has had his share of struggles this year, but didlook good in his last outing while allowing 2 runs in almost 7 innings againstthe Phillies. As long as he doesn’t get “blown up” the Angels will have enoughfire power to come out of this one on top. <o
></o>Josh Hamilton received a day off yesterday so he should befresh and ready to go. Both he and teammate Mike Trout have great career numbersat Fenway Park. They’ll be facing Brandon Workman, who is 1-6 with a 4.45 ERAon the season. Workman had shown glimpses of strong pitching earlier in theseason. Things have dropped off significantly and now he’s taken the loss in 6straight outings. He missed his last start due to fatigue and also leaves mostof his pitches up in the zone. That’s a bad combination against an Angel’slineup that will take advantage of mistakes and tee off on balls up in thezone. <o
></o>I’ll call the starting pitching a wash due to how bad Wilsonhad been prior to his last outing. Big offensive advantage to the Halos though.If we throw in the fact that Boston has nothing to play for while the Angelsare in a race for the division, a significant edge goes to the visiting squad.Take the Angels. <o
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