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When they play, Atlanta Braves versus the Los Angeles Angels always sparks action and enthusiasm among fans as it demonstrates the talents displayed and wise moves made by teams during games. While struggling lately, this season’s Braves are ready for new beginnings. The Angels on the other hand strive to better what they have had so far. This match will therefore be worth watching because of all the injuries set to keep major players out of the pitch for both teams making them bounce off their weak beginnings into some entertaining baseball performance.
Betting Odds and Info:
These are the latest odds as of writing:
Moneyline: Braves 150, Angels +125
Spread: Braves -1.5, Angels +1.5
Over/Under: 8.5
Team Recent Performance
Braves
The Atlanta Braves seek to restore their former glory after they narrowly missed out on a sweep against the San Francisco Giants, having lost 6-0 in the series finale on Thursday. The defeat was however in the series that they won which marked an end of their series loss streak.
Angels
The Los Angeles Angels come into this series hoping to get back on track after suffering a sweep at the hands of the Toronto Blue Jays, which ended with a 9-2 defeat last Wednesday. It is the second straight series that they have lost, having also fallen to the Washington Nationals in another hard-fought series loss just a week ago.
Starting Pitchers Matchup
Braves
As of now, Spencer Schwellenbach, the pitcher for the Braves, has a record of 4-5 which still remains impressive. He has a very good ERA of 3.95 with an outstanding WHIP of 1.061. His superb control over the pitch gives him with a good strikeout to walk ratio of 6.42. The Braves however have only won 5 out of his 12 starts this season despite him doing well individually during some games. When he is favored in moneyline betting, they’ve only gone 3-5 in those too (with bets placed on total score). Interestingly, during those twelve matches that Schwellenbach started, there were only two occasions when the total runs surpassed the over bet which can be seen as a general trend towards low-scoring matches.
Angels
On the other hand, Angels’ pitcher José Soriano has a record of 6-7 for this season with a good 3.36 ERA and his opponents are batting an average of only .223 against him. He averages 7.6 strikeouts per nine innings pitched as well. In 19 starts he made for Angels they won 9 times while he was starting as moneyline underdog in the eight cases losing seven other matches. Nevertheless most times during his games it happened that there were seven overs so far against those who didn’t hit this number in ten cases or pushed it in two games at all but played pretty close matches instead on such occasions like that one where he played baseball at least together with other players who were involved in competition.
Team Head-to-Head Matchup
Atlanta Braves averages 5.10 runs whereas Los Angeles Angels averages 3.90 runs per game. Furthermore, the Braves have managed on average eight hits in every given game while their counterparts have the same only if they include the extra half-a-hit made by Angels who score more hits on average at 8.50 hits each game played this season. In addition, Atlanta has proved to be a better player when it comes to batters because they get three point two walks per one point individual angel who gets two point six resulting in less frequent strikes-out rate of 7 point 50 by Atlanta compared to the 9 point 90 recorded for LA’s ace batters combined together. For both teams Over has hit in seven out of their last ten encounters.
Atlanta Braves Injuries
Due to his injured hamstring, Jorge Soler will not be participating in Friday’s game with the Angels. Additionally, the Braves are also lacking some key members: Reynaldo Lopez has pain in his forearm, Ozzie Albies has wrist woes, A.J. Minter is bothered by his hip, and Ronald Acuña Jr.’s knee is busted up too. To add insult to injury, a handful of hurlers—Huascar Ynoa, Spencer Strider, Ray Kerr, and Hurston Waldrep—aren’t available either because they have issues involving their elbows as well.
Los Angeles Angels
Due to a knee injury, Mike Trout is unable to play this season and is placed on a ten-day priority list of injured people. Moreover, both Jose Cisnero and Robert Stephenson have long term shoulder injuries that keep them from playing while Luis Rengifo’s wrist loss ends his involvement in this year’s games. Elbow problems also made Patrick Sandoval and Andrew Wantz spend sixty days out of play. There is an infection now bothering Jose Marte; as for Chase Silseth, he has got elbow pain and will not be part of any game this year; however, Kelvin Caceres remains off the field due to lack of information regarding the type of problem.
SPORTBOOK.AG’s Prediction
The Braves are the stronger pick to win this game.
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