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Angels & Athletics Continue Key Series
The AL West is in the spotlight on Tuesday night when the Los Angeles Angels visit the Oakland Athletics at 10:05 p.m. (ET).
The Angels opened as $1.35 road favorites on the Don Best odds screen behind C.J. Wilson. The total is set at seven runs (shaded to the ‘under’). The seemingly ageless Bartolo Colon continues to confound his critics as he goes for Oakland.
Each team is in the wild-card hunt, but Wilson (9-7, 3.27 ERA) really needs to improve his recent performance. He hasn’t won a game since way back on June 26th, seven starts ago.
The 31-year-old lefty has also had really high pitch counts, at least 113 in five of his last six starts. The Angels only won one of those contests with batters just daring him to throw it over the plate.
Don Best MLB analyst Kenny White points out that Wilson walked just 3.0 batters per nine innings last year with Texas. That number is 4.0 this year after signing a big free agent contract.
Oakland (58-50) is 5.5 games behind Texas in the AL West standings. That’s pending the Monday night series opener. Jered Weaver is a $1.55 favorite and could push Los Angeles (58-51) a half-game ahead of the A’s.
Colon (8-8, 3.55 ERA) has a 16 1/3 scoreless innings streak, but has been fortunate as he’s given up a lot of hits. Don Best’s White gives Colon a lot of credit for wiggling out of jams and believes he will have another quality outing on Tuesday.
The now 39-year-old Colon had a 135-75 record from 1998-2005 before dealing with a lot of injuries through 2009. He sat out 2010 before resurfacing with the Yankees last year. He is having one of his most productive years despite his age, with Oakland 5-1 in his last six starts.
Note that both teams have hit a mini-lull of late. Los Angeles is 4-6 in its last 10, while Oakland is slightly better at 5-5. The upstart Athletics are still 21-9 overall in their last 30, playing torrid baseball for most of July.
White has good head-to-head betting information between the teams. Oakland is 5-4 in the season series, but the total has gone ‘under’ in eight of those games.
The ‘under’ is also 6-1 in Colon’s last seven starts overall.
Keep checking the Don Best Pro Odds for all the latest injury and other information.
The AL West is in the spotlight on Tuesday night when the Los Angeles Angels visit the Oakland Athletics at 10:05 p.m. (ET).
The Angels opened as $1.35 road favorites on the Don Best odds screen behind C.J. Wilson. The total is set at seven runs (shaded to the ‘under’). The seemingly ageless Bartolo Colon continues to confound his critics as he goes for Oakland.
Each team is in the wild-card hunt, but Wilson (9-7, 3.27 ERA) really needs to improve his recent performance. He hasn’t won a game since way back on June 26th, seven starts ago.
The 31-year-old lefty has also had really high pitch counts, at least 113 in five of his last six starts. The Angels only won one of those contests with batters just daring him to throw it over the plate.
Don Best MLB analyst Kenny White points out that Wilson walked just 3.0 batters per nine innings last year with Texas. That number is 4.0 this year after signing a big free agent contract.
Oakland (58-50) is 5.5 games behind Texas in the AL West standings. That’s pending the Monday night series opener. Jered Weaver is a $1.55 favorite and could push Los Angeles (58-51) a half-game ahead of the A’s.
Colon (8-8, 3.55 ERA) has a 16 1/3 scoreless innings streak, but has been fortunate as he’s given up a lot of hits. Don Best’s White gives Colon a lot of credit for wiggling out of jams and believes he will have another quality outing on Tuesday.
The now 39-year-old Colon had a 135-75 record from 1998-2005 before dealing with a lot of injuries through 2009. He sat out 2010 before resurfacing with the Yankees last year. He is having one of his most productive years despite his age, with Oakland 5-1 in his last six starts.
Note that both teams have hit a mini-lull of late. Los Angeles is 4-6 in its last 10, while Oakland is slightly better at 5-5. The upstart Athletics are still 21-9 overall in their last 30, playing torrid baseball for most of July.
White has good head-to-head betting information between the teams. Oakland is 5-4 in the season series, but the total has gone ‘under’ in eight of those games.
The ‘under’ is also 6-1 in Colon’s last seven starts overall.
Keep checking the Don Best Pro Odds for all the latest injury and other information.
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