MLB Baseball Tampa Bay Rays @ Los Angeles Angels

Tonight the AL East and 2nd place Rays (76-48) are on the road playing the 2nd place in AL West, Angels (62-63) at Anaheim, California. HE Rays are 1 game behind the Yankees and game time is 10:05 PM EDT. Pitching tonight for the Rays of Tampa Bay will be James Shields who is 11-11 with an ERA of 4.82 with 143 Ks and 40 Walks.

Then going to the mound for the Angels we will see Scott Kazmir who is 8-10 with an ERA of 6.40 with 68 Ks and 56 Walks. Unfortunately for the Rays Shields has been there worst starting pitcher. Two years ago Kazmir and Shields were both pitching as anchors for the Rays. See the MLB Baseball Odds on this MLB AL game tonight.

The Rays are continuing tonight their road trip of seven games on the west coast with their road stats at 37-24 which is decent for road games. Shields will make it his 144 start of his career tonight which ties Kazmir’s record when he was with the Rays.

The Coach for the Rays believes that the race with the Yankees requires that they try to win all games as the Yankees don’t lose very many so they must keep playing there game and winning. See the MLB Betting lines at sbg global.com.

On the other side the Angels are behind the Rangers in the AL West by 8 games and over the past weekend they did not help themselves as lost 2 of 3 to Minnesota that included a 4-0 loss on Sunday at Target field. Kazmir, once the Ace for the Rays had a miserable 2009 and was then traded to the Angels. The Angels are chasing the Rangers but thus far in August they have not had the luck or offensive power to win the needed games to advance.

In this game tonight the SBGGlobal Odds makers have the Rays as the favorites at -1 ½ (-150) and the Angels the dogs at +1 ½ (+130) and the OV 9 (-120) and the UN 9 (EV) with the Money Line the Rays are -137 and the Angels are +127.  All the odds and lines are subject to change.