Tuesday MLB

Is Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim a contender or a pretender?
Is the glass half full or half empty? If you compare against Cleveland, Angels look half full and Indians half empty.
This is just the start of the 10 game road trip. Knocking off the slumping White Sox the Halos will move to Cleveland against another struggling club the Indians. The Tribe is not playing their brand of baseball circa 2005 in fact they are playing like 2003. 3-7 in last 10 games and losing too many close games. Jeremy Sowers will take the ball and he is a future bright spot, hard to believe he came up through 2001 amateur draft.
Fastball in low 90's, but favors to keep it at 90, good slider, good change, command and smart.
Too bad he'll be opposing Jered Weaver with Angels surging on the road.
Halos are hitting lefties at .328 (Vlad is hitting lefties .416, Quinlan hitting lefties .360, Rivera .311, Salmon .308 and even Tommy Murphy in limited AB is hitting lefties .350) compared to combined Indians hitting righties .243 and Angels are solid out of the pen.

Money line moving towards Cleveland. Figuring rested Tribe getting some respect, but Blake on 15 day DL is out of the line up, sunny clear summer condition with some wind 14mph NNE. I guess Hafner is always dangerous.
Angels ML now -110

LAA -113 for 3 units(W)
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Texas at Oakland.
Backing Millwood on the Road (7-1 with 3.13 ERA) and eliminating the Rangers pen. Rangers have dropped 3, but club is 10-5-4 in road series and 3-0-1 in last 4 series. A's are batting .249, the lowest in Majors, Pinch hitters are 1-33 (0.30).
Shane Komine pitching for the A's got his last call up when he was hot in the minors (6-0 with 0.42 ERA) Pitched against TOR 7/30 (6 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 4 BB & 1 SO) A's have the historical advantage, but not today.

TEX First 5 innings -119 for 2 units(Push)
Had the advantage and could not pull it out. 4-4 tied at end of 5th!

1-0-1 +3.00 units