Game Time: 9:38 pm ET, Tuesday, June 7th , 2022 

Venue: Angel Stadium of Anaheim, Anaheim, California

Where to Watch: MLBN. Alt 

DraftKings: Money-line: 

BetMGM: Moneyline:   

Bet Rivers: Red Sox -135, Angels +116; O/U 9 

Red Sox: 26-27, 4th place AL East.

Angels: 27-27, 2nd place AL West.

Game 2 of this matchup.  Game 1 is played Monday night (right now)... while the results shouldn’t affect the betting lines too seriously… They will be updated as soon as they are posted.

An American League matchup between two teams that are simply not living up to their promise of building a better roster.  The 4th place American League East team is hovering just 1 game below .500… but in a division that includes the New York Yankees, The Toronto Blue Jays, and the Tampa Bay Rays… all of whom are 7.5 to 12.5 games ahead of the Red Sox.  It is early in the season for sure… we have a whole summer to still play… but it will be tough as heck for the Sox to climb out of the hole they have dug for themselves.  The 2nd place AL West Los Angeles Angels are exactly at .500… fortunately for them they play in a division with some terrible, terrible teams.  The one team ahead of them is the cheating Houston Astros… and they are 7.5 games ahead… but the Texas Rangers, the Seattle Mariners, and the Oakland Athletics should not be a threat… in fact they should provide lots of easy wins.  So head to head who is the great betting opportunity?:  The bad team in a good division?... Or the ok team in a bad division?.... Who is more battle tested and resilient enough to make us some fresh cash?

The Boston Red Sox have won 6 of their last 10 games.  4 Overs, 5 Unders, and 1 Push along the way.  Third baseman Rafael Devers is leading the team with 11 home runs… They still have JD Martinez, Xander Bogaerts, and Alex Verdugo… They are also suffering through an injury list that is loaded with pitchers.  The Red Sox do not have bad numbers… In fact the numbers are pretty good. They do, however, have a pretty bad record.  The Sox have gone 2-0 against the Oakland Athletics (with game 3 playing now), 1-1 against the Cincinnati Reds, 2-3 against the Baltimore Orioles in a long 5-game series, and 1-0 against the Chicago White Sox.  They are winning at a good clip… can it last against the Angels?

The Los Angeles Angels have won ZERO of their last 10 games.  Again I can not say this enough… ZERO of the last ten games the Angels have played in have ended in a loss for the Angels.  The Angels started the season pretty well and have been on a collision course with the town dump while riding in a wheeled dumpster set ablaze with oily rags and kerosene soaked tree stumps. It has been a career killing streak.  Firings will need to take place.  To be fair to the Angels 7 of those losses were against the Yankees and the Blue Jays… still if the Angels don’t have the “stones” necessary to fire managers and trade players in response… They simply have no hope of the roster ever taking the uniform seriously.  They went 0-2 against the Philadelphia Phillies, 0-3 against the New York Yankees, 0-4 against the Toronto Blue Jays, and 0-1 against the Texas Rangers.  

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The Red Sox are 5th in scoring with 4.85 runs per game, 2nd in batting average with .260, and 10th in OBP with .320.

The Angels are 11th in scoring with 4.4 runs per game, 15th in batting average with .244, and 14th in OBP with .315

The Red Sox are 12th in team ERA with 3.76, 7th in WHIP with 1.18, and 18th in errors with 28 so far.

The Angels are 18th in Team ERA with 4.01, 11th in WHIP with 1.20, and 17th in errors with 28 on the season so far.

Our prediction for Tuesday, June 7th is….  Angels 5 - Red Sox 3

The Angels and the Sox are a good matchup.  It all depends on the pitching.  However, whoever is on the mound the slight advantage still goes to the Red ox with how poorly the Angels have been playing this season.      

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The Angels are 2-1 against the Red Sox in Los Angeles the last 3 seasons.
5 of 8 games have gone Under between these teams the last 3 seasons.

Red Sox: RF JD Martinez (rest) Quest ** CF J. Bradley Jr (personal) Out

Angels: C K. Suzuki (neck) Quest ** 3B A. Rendon (wrist) Out ** SS D. Fletcher (groin) Out

Red Sox: RHP Garrett Whitlock, 2-1, 3.02 ERA, 44 strikeout in 44 innings pitched, 1.10 WHIP

Angels: TBD... The Angels have not settled firmly on who the starter will be.  That is why the betting lines are way late.  The likelihood of a bullpen game is increasing but they will still have to name a starter.

Red Sox: RF Jarren Duran, CF Enrique Hernandez, 3B Rafael Devers, DH JD Martinez, SS Xander Bogaerts, LF Alex Verdugo, 2B Trevor Story, 1B Franchy Cordero, C Christian Vasquez 

Angels: RF Taylor Ward, DH Shohei Ohtani, CF Mike Trout, 1B Jared Walsh, 2B Luis Rengifo, LF Brandon Marsh, C Max Stassi, SS Andrew Velazquez, 3B Tyler Wade 

Red Sox: Alex Cora

Angels: Joe Maddon

Partly Cloudy, 78*, Humidity 65%, wind at 7 mph.  A good day for baseball.