{"id":6035,"date":"2009-10-16T06:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T11:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/fox-american-league-championship-series-angels-vs-yankees\/"},"modified":"2009-10-16T06:28:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T11:28:00","slug":"fox-american-league-championship-series-angels-vs-yankees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/fox-american-league-championship-series-angels-vs-yankees\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox American League Championship Series: Angels vs Yankees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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A winning streak will be on the line for the Los Angeles Angels on Friday when they battle the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Angels will give the ball to ace starter John Lackey in this one. Righthander Lackey is 12-8 this season with a 3.68 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Lackey’s opponent in this one will be CC Sabathia. The Yankees ace lefthander has a 3.31 ERA to go along with a 20-8 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Yankees listed as 173-moneyline favorites versus the Angels, while the game’s total is sitting at 8\u00bd. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Angels defeated Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 7-6 as a +125 underdog to sweep their ALDS on Sunday. The 13 runs scored went OVER the posted over\/under (9). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Vladimir Guerrero and Juan Rivera each drove in a pair of runs for Los Angeles<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, while Bobby Abreu was 3-5 with an RBI and two runs scored in that win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Yankees defeated Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> 4-1 as a -165 favorite on Sunday to sweep their ALDS. The five runs scored fell UNDER the posted over\/under (9.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jorge Posada homered and drove in a pair of runs for New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, and Alex Rodriguez hit a solo home run in that win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Los Angeles<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 97-65 SU
New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 103-59 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Los Angeles<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> most recently:
When playing on Friday are 6-4
Before playing NY Yankees are 6-4
After playing Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> are 7-3
After a win are 8-2<\/p>\n

New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> most recently:
When playing on Friday are 6-4
Before playing LA Angels are 6-4
After playing Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> are 8-2
After a win are 9-1<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
LA Angels are 5-0 SU in their last 5 games
LA Angels are 5-0 SU in their last 5 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of LA Angels’s last 6 games
The total has gone OVER in 5 of LA Angels’s last 6 games when playing on the road against NY Yankees
NY Yankees are 8-1 SU in their last 9 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of NY Yankees’s last 7 games at home
NY Yankees are 5-1 SU in their last 6 games when playing at home against LA Angels
The total has gone OVER in 5 of NY Yankees’s last 6 games when playing at home against LA Angels<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
NY Yankees home to LA Angels, Saturday, October 17<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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A winning streak will be on the line for the Los Angeles Angels on Friday when they battle the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium. The Angels will give the ball to ace starter John Lackey in this one. Righthander Lackey is 12-8 this season with a 3.68 ERA. Lackey’s opponent in this one will … Continue reading Fox American League Championship Series: Angels vs Yankees<\/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-6035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6035","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=6035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}