ANGELS at RANGERS (-1.5 runline, +110) – 8:05 pm ET #974

Not an official play, but I would rate Texas as a light lean tonight.

Texas took Game 1 of their important early series with the Angels and they’ll hope to do it again on Tuesday night in a pitching match-up that they have a clear advantage in. The Angels are sending Matt Palmer to the hill for his 2nd outing of the season. His first one was a disaster where he gave up 5 runs and 10 hits in 4.7 innings pitched against the Blue Jays at home. Palmer faced Texas back in 2009 and gave up just one hit in five innings of work. Adrian Beltre (3-8), David Murphy (2-6), Julio Borbon (2-4) and Elvis Andrus (1-3) hit Palmer well. The Rangers’ offense is averaging 7 runs per game at home and they will face an Angels’ bullpen that has an ERA over 4.00 on the road and two blown saves.

Colby Lewis is returning from paternity leave to make his start against the Angels. Lewis is 1-1 with a 5.25 ERA in two starts so far splitting outings with the Orioles and Red Sox. Lewis faced the Angels twice last season giving up 2 runs in each outing while picking up the loss in one of those games. Los Angles hits just .176 (9-51) against Lewis as a team. Only Jeff Mathis (1-1) has an average better then .250 against the Rangers’ starter. Vernon Wells has the most hits with three against Lewis, but that's over 13 at-bats. The Angels are hitting just over .220 as a team over their past eight games. The Rangers’ bullpen has an ERA around 3.00 for the season so they should be able to back Lewis up and hold a comfortable lead in this game.

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