The season series between the MLB-leading Los Angeles Angels and baseball-worst Texas Rangers has gone exactly as one would expect based on their records.
It doesn't seem to matter where the Angels are playing, they just keep winning.
Los Angeles (89-55) is 11-3 against Texas (54-90) this year, winning 10 of the past 11 meetings after a seven-run eighth inning provided the difference in Tuesday's 9-3 victory that opened this three-game set.
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The Los Angeles Angels have won six straight and are 34 games above a .500 record. The Angels bats have really woken up, scoring four or more runs in 11 of their last 14 games. The Angels have won 20 straight games when scoring more than three runs. Mike Trout has six hits in his last three games and Howie Kendrick has 17 hits in his last 10 games. The Los Angeles Angels have an ERA of 3.55, which is 11th in the majors. Starting is Matt Shoemaker, who is 14-4 with a 2.35 ERA and has 117 strikeouts in 121.2 innings. Shoemaker is 2-0 with a 2.03 ERA in two career starts against the Rangers.
Texas hasn't looked like much of a threat offensively of late, hitting .231 while scoring 20 runs during a 1-9 stretch.
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The Texas Rangers have lost nine of their last 10 games and are 36 games below a .500 record. Pitching continues to be the Rangers main issue, as they’ve allowed four or more runs in 10 of their last 14 games. Overall, the Texas Rangers have an ERA of 4.69, which is 29th in the majors, and they’ve lost six straight when allowing more than three runs. Offensively, Leonys Martin has a four-game hitting streak and Adrian Beltre has an RBI in back-to-back games. Nick Tepesch gets the ball, and he’s 4-9 with a 4.41 ERA and has 48 strikeouts in 104 innings. Tepesch is 0-1 with a 3.86 ERA in three career starts against the Angels.
The Angels are 4-0 in Shoemakers last 4 road starts and 5-0 in Shoemakers last 5 starts overall. The Rangers are 1-5 in Tepeschs last 6 starts during game 2 of a series and 9-28 in their last 37 during game 2 of a series.
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