Angels contiune onslaught on AL East

With the Angels owning the best record in the AL, they would face the Wild Card winner in the ALDS, barring an enormous collapse. This past week the Angels have come to the right coast and appear to be trying to decide the AL East race by themselves. After an impressive sweep of the Sox at Fenway, part of seven straight wins against Boston, the Angels were in to New York to say their goodbyes to Yankee Stadium. For a team supposedly pitching driven the Angels pounded the Yanks in the series opener. Torri Hunter, Vladimir Guerrerro and Juan Rivera each hit a three run homer as the Angels doubled up New York 12-6. The recently acquired Mark Teixeira joined in the fun and his first hit with L.A. also brought in his first run as a member of the Angels. The Angels domination of the Yankees ended by far their most productive month of the season.

The club has won 13 of their last 15 games, part of an 19-6 July which has left the Angels with a club record 12.5 game lead in the AL West. Torri Hunter pointed out the obvious last night, “This is definitely the best we’ve played all season long.” The Angels averaged 6.4 runs a game this month with a team average around .294. That is almost double the run production from May and June. A grinning Teixeira after the game spoke to just how good this team is. With a league best record of 68-40 the Angels have their best record ever after 108 games. Right now the Angels biggest concerns are staying healhty and dealing with the fact if they keep blowing teams out Fransisco Rodriguez won’t hit the field. Any team in the American league would switch places with L.A. right now. And that’s precisely why Mark Teixeira can’t stop smiling.

Tonight

Ervin Santana (11-5, 3.57) @ Sidney Ponson (6-2, 4.59) - 4:05 PT

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