It’s a rare occasion in baseball where a two-week stretch can ultimately make or break a team’s season. But that certainly seems to be the case with the 2010 Angels here in late July. Starting with Tuesday night’s rout of the Yankees, the Angels embarked on the most pivotal 12-game run of the year with the remaining 11 games against the American League’s toughest competition…
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AccuScore.com: Playoff Shifts Week 13
AMERICAN LEAGUE
The Tampa Bay Rays may have been fighting in the dugout a week ago, but Week 13 saw them go 4-2 against key playoff competitors in Boston and Minnesota.
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
The Tigers led the AL in playoff probability improvement with a +18 percentage point week. They were 5-2 with quality wins over the Yankees and potential Wild Card competitor Boston. The Tigers rise also took a -10.8 percentage point chunk out of the Twins’ chances who despite their grand-slam off of Mariano Rivera still finished just 2-3 this week. Despite the down week the Twins are still heavy 73 percent favorites to win the AL Central. Both teams benefit from lackluster efforts so far from the White Sox, Royals and Indians.
The Angels had a good 4-2 week and more than doubled their playoff chances, but considering they are still 3 games under .500 they still have under a 15 percent chance. The rest of the AL West was amazingly stable this week with no team rising or falling more than a couple of percentage points.
Read MoreAccuScore: Playoff Shifts Week 2
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
AccuScore was optimistic that Oakland could improve on last year’s poor 75 win season giving them a nearly 18 percent chance of making the playoffs. After a 9-5 start the A’s playoff chances jumped nearly 25 percentage points and they are actually the favorite in the AL West in a virtual tie with pre-season pick, Los Angeles. The Angels are just 6-7, but they only dropped -4.8 points because they have had a tough early schedule with series vs the Twins and Yankees. Seattle is also just 6-7, but they only dropped -3.2 percent. The big loser in the division is Texas who is just 5-7.
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Angels vs. Yankees ALCS Game 6: Pregame
New York Yankees vs Los Angeles Angels @LA 4:57pm TV: FOX
A great series has a chance to be epic. Joe Saunders, who pitched well in game 2, takes the mound against Andy Pettitte, who the Angels have had a lot of success against. The Angels will face a hostile crowd in [...]
Yankees and Angels ALCS Game 5: Preview
New York Yankees vs Los Angeles Angels @LA 4:57pm TV: FOX
We’ve found ourselves in a 3-1 hole, but if anyone can pull us out of it, it’ll be our ace John Lackey, who has posted a 1.38 ERA in 13 postseason innings of work. Lackey has already thrown against the Yankees in [...]
What Are You Afraid Of…
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…Players
Errors happen when your nervous or mentally somewhere else, and high scoring innings happen when pitchers aren’t aggressive. It feels like our Red Sox series of the past. Mental error after mental error. This is not the Angel team we have seen all year. Why is it so hard to step and throw a baseball accurately? You are major league players.
Read MoreMariano Rivera’s (Possible) Spitball
Apparently the commissioners office said there is no conclusive evidence that Rivera cheated. Um, is he watching the same video I am. Why would he first look up (possibly to see if anyone is looking), and then spit right toward the ball. If he wasn’t cheating he is an idiot.
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