The Los Angeles Angels have now lost 6 straight after a 9-1 shellacking last night by the best team in baseball, the New York Yankees. Tonight it won’t get any easier for the west coasters when they resume their series with the Yanks in the Bronx. Southpaw Nasty Nestor Cortés Jr. will be tapping the rubber for New York and he has been throwing flame after flame. Cortés is 4-1 with a nasty ERA of 1.70, a stingy 0.85 WHIP, and in his last outing against a really good Tampa team, he yielded just 1 run on 4 hits resulting in a 7-2 Yankees win. The Angels will look to lefty Reid Detmers to pull them out of the gutter and we know what the Bombers do to left-handed starters, crush them. Detmers is 2-2 with a 4.65 ERA, a 0.91 WHIP, and does have a No-No this year under his belt, however since then his ERA has ballooned to 7.45. If LA wants to pull the upset in this one, they have some hurdles to overcome. The Halos are 0-4 in their last 4 road games, 0-6 in their last 6 against the AL East, and New York is 24-8 in their last 32 as a favorite.
TONIGHT’S PICK: NEW YORK YANKEES