{"id":2187,"date":"2008-10-03T06:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/red-sox-angels-who-will-cover\/"},"modified":"2008-10-03T06:17:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T11:17:00","slug":"red-sox-angels-who-will-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/red-sox-angels-who-will-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox-Angels Who Will Cover?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Boston Red Sox and the Los Angeles Angels will both be gunning for a victory on Friday when they meet at Angel Stadium. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Daisuke Matsuzaka will be the starting pitcher for the Red Sox on this day. Righthander Matsuzaka is 18-3 this season with a 2.90 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Matsuzaka’s opponent in this one will be Ervin Santana. The Angels righthander has a 3.49 ERA to go along with a 16-7 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Angels listed as 128-moneyline favorites versus the Red Sox, while the game’s total is sitting at 8. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Red Sox took a 1-0 lead in this series with a 4-1 win over the Angels on Wednesday, as +125 underdogs. The five runs went UNDER the posted over\/under (8). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jason Bay went 2-for-4 at the plate with a two-run homer for the Red Sox. Jon Lester tossed seven innings for the win, allowing one run off six hits. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Torii Hunter drove in the lone run for the Angels, who had been favored at -140 in that game. John Lackey gave up two runs on four hits over 6 2-3 innings in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Boston: 95-67 SU
Los Angeles: 100-62 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Boston most recently:
When playing on Friday are 8-2
Before playing LA Angels are 5-5
After playing LA Angels are 3-7
After a win are 5-5<\/p>\n

Los Angeles most recently:
When playing on Friday are 5-5
Before playing Boston are 7-3
After playing Boston are 8-2
After a loss are 7-3<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Boston’s last 6 games
Boston is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games
The total has gone UNDER in 10 of Boston’s last 14 games when playing on the road against LA Angels
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Boston’s last 6 games on the road
LA Angels are 8-1 SU in their last 9 games when playing Boston
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of LA Angels’s last 7 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 5 of LA Angels’s last 7 games
The total has gone UNDER in 10 of LA Angels’s last 14 games when playing at home against Boston<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
LA Angels at Boston, Sunday, October 5<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Boston Red Sox and the Los Angeles Angels will both be gunning for a victory on Friday when they meet at Angel Stadium. Daisuke Matsuzaka will be the starting pitcher for the Red Sox on this day. Righthander Matsuzaka is 18-3 this season with a 2.90 ERA. Matsuzaka’s opponent in this one will be … Continue reading Red Sox-Angels Who Will Cover?<\/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-2187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187","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=2187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}