\n\u201cIt\u2019s a good start to the year. The last two games have been great team wins from everybody. Everybody’s contributing. Pitching staff is making pitches and then timely hitting.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Obviously, two wins is not a definitive sign a team has turned a corner. The Angels face long odds to just reach the playoffs \u2014 they are an AL West-worst +2200 to win the division \u2014 but they at least wiped away some negative history on Friday.<\/p>\n
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They have two more games against the Astros this weekend, then a road series against the Chicago Cubs next week before their home opener against the Seattle Mariners next Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are some stats that make you realize the Los Angeles Angels aren\u2019t like other MLB franchises. This…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":687265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[288330,92086,1271,2382,1285,2626,1266,1288,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-687264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-2009-mlb-draft","tag-albert-pujols","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-houston-astros","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-mike-trout","tag-mlb","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116305358062008772","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}