Texas Rangers (47-86) vs. Los Angeles Angels (66-68)
September 3, 2021 9:38 pm EDT
The Line: Los Angeles Angels -205 / Texas Rangers +188; Over/Under: -8.5
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The Texas Rangers and the Los Angeles Angels meet in an AL West division matchup in MLB action from Angels Stadium on Friday night.
The Texas Rangers will try to rebound from a 9-5 loss at the hands of Colorado last time out. Leody Taveras had two hits with a double and two RBIs while Isiah Kiner-Falefa had two RBIs as well and Yohel Pozo had a pair of hits with an RBI as well to cap off the scoring for the Rangers in defeat. Jose Trevino had a pair of hits with a double while Nick Solak, Nate Lowe and Adolis Garcia each had base hits to finish off the offense for Texas in the loss. Kohei Arihara gave up one run on one hit with three strikeouts over 3.1 innings of work, not factoring in the decision. Joe Barlow took the loss in relief to fall to 0-2 on the year as a result. Glenn Otto will start here and is 0-0 with a 0.00 ERA and 7 strikeouts this season.
The Los Angeles Angels will look to rebound from a 4-1 loss at the hands of the New York Yankees last time out. David Fletcher went 2 for 4 with a double and an RBI and Jared Walsh had a double and Jack Mayfield had a base hit as well as the Angels had just four hits as a team with the rest of the lineup batting 0 for 20 with 13 strikeouts. Packy Naughon took the loss, falling to 0-1 on the year after allowing three runs on six hits over 3.2 innings of work. Shohei Ohtani will start here and is 8-1 with a 3.00 ERA and 127 strikeouts this season.
Texas is 22-46 in their last 68 series-opening games and 20-47 in their last 67 games following a loss while the over is 4-0-1 in their last 5 games as a road underdog. Los Angeles is 5-1 in their last 6 games as a favorite and 4-0 in their last 4 games following an off day while the under is 5-1 in Friday games.
I get that this is a lot of juice to lay with the Angels, but the Angels just battled the Yankees tough and have a huge edge on the mound with Ohtani going up against Glenn Otto. I also don’t trust Texas’ offense to be consistent af far as I can show them, so give me Los Angeles -1.5 here.
