{"id":1629,"date":"2008-08-17T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-17T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/angels-indians-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-08-17T08:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-17T13:05:00","slug":"angels-indians-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/angels-indians-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels-Indians Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Los Angeles Angels and the Cleveland Indians will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Progressive Field. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Angels will give the ball to starter Joe Saunders in this one. Lefthander Saunders is 14-5 this season with a 3.07 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Saunders’s opponent in this one will be Jeremy Sowers. The Indians lefthander has a 6.28 ERA to go along with a 1-6 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
NewBodog oddsmakers currently have the Angels listed as 160-moneyline favorites versus the Indians, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Angels evened their three-game series with a hard-fought 4-3 win over the Indians on Saturday, as -165 favorites. The combined seven runs went UNDER the posted over\/under (8.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Vladimir Guerrero drove in two runs to lead the Angels at the plate. John Lackey tossed six innings for the win, allowing three runs off six hits. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
David Dellucci had two hits, including a solo home run for the Indians, who were +155 underdogs. Fausto Carmona gave up four runs off six hits over seven innings in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Los Angeles<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 76-45 SU
Cleveland: 55-67 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Los Angeles most recently:
When playing on Sunday are 6-4
Before playing Tampa Bay are 3-7
After playing Cleveland are 6-4
After a win are 7-3<\/p>\n

Cleveland most recently:
When playing on Sunday are 6-4
Before playing Kansas City are 5-5
After playing LA Angels are 5-5
After a loss are 6-4<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of LA Angels’s last 5 games when playing Cleveland
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of LA Angels’s last 5 games when playing on the road against Cleveland
LA Angels are 6-2 SU in their last 8 games
LA Angels are 10-4 SU in their last 14 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Cleveland’s last 5 games when playing LA Angels
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Cleveland’s last 5 games when playing at home against LA Angels
Cleveland is 5-2 SU in their last 7 games when playing at home against LA Angels
The total has gone OVER in 6 of Cleveland’s last 9 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
LA Angels at Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>, Monday, August 18
Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Tuesday, August 19<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Los Angeles Angels and the Cleveland Indians will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Progressive Field. The Angels will give the ball to starter Joe Saunders in this one. Lefthander Saunders is 14-5 this season with a 3.07 ERA. Saunders’s opponent in this one will be Jeremy Sowers. … Continue reading Angels-Indians Preview<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}