Chicago White Sox at Los Angeles Angels Finale
Posted on | April 30, 2006 | No Comments
Last night the Angels lost a heartbreaker. It was a game they should have won. Tonight, the Angels are looking to avoid a sweep in the series. To stop the bleeding they are sending Ervin Santana to the mound. The White Sox are sending Jon Garland. Last season the Angels were only swept once all season. There is a high probability that they come away with the victory tonight. In 2005, the White Sox and Angels met with this very same pitching match up at Anaheim on May 23rd. The Angels won that game 4-0.
Santana has pitched two games at home this year and his home ERA is 0.77. He shut down the Yankees and the Tigers—two teams with high runs per game averages. Last season he faced the White Sox once, as mentioned earlier, and shut them down by going nine innings and giving up only five hits.
Garland has been terrible on the road this season. He has had three road starts and his road ERA is 9.33. To make matters worse, two of his three road starts were against bad teams with low run production numbers—Kansas City and Seattle. His other road game was at Detroit. Even though he gave up 13 hits, a walk and 7 runs in that game, he still got the win because the Tigers were equally as bad that night. Garland had two starts against the Angels in 2005 and he lost both games. His ERA in those two games was 6.92.
Bottom line, this is a good game to take the Angels. You have the pitching match up in favor of the Angels and you have them looking to avoid a sweep—something that only happened once last season.
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