Wednesday MLB Betting Preview – Angels at Yankees
Posted by Jeff Mattingly on July 21, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Los Angeles is now 4-1 since the All-Star break after picking up a 10-2 blowout victory over the Bronx Bombers at Yankee Stadium. The team is still just 7-9 this month (-280) after losing just nine games in June (18-9). Tuesday night’s win also pushed the Angels ahead in the season series, but the team has still dropped 10 of its last 13 games in New York. Manager Mike Scioscia’s club has not lost a season series to the Yankees since the 2003 season and the team is a combined 84-73 versus today’s opponent since the 1996 season. The Angels bullpen is doing its part during the month, posting a 2.67 ERA, after combining for a 4.97 mark in June. The starting rotation has compiled some very interesting numbers this season, producing a 2.25 ERA in the team’s 51 wins, while tallying a 7.26 ERA in 45 losses. The Angels are always dangerous in daytime games, posting an 18-13 record this season (+510).
Angels starting pitcher Joel Pineiro is 10-6 with a 3.95 ERA and has won seven straight decisions, posting a 2.51 ERA over that span. He is currently one win shy of a career-high win streak. Los Angeles has actually won eight straight with him on the mound, outscoring opponents by a 57-20 margin. The right-hander has tossed six innings-or-more in 10 straight and 17 of 19 starts this season. Pineiro will be making his 19th appearance, 11th start versus the Yankees, going 3-4 with a 3.66 ERA. Today will be his third start of the year against the Bronx Bombers, posting an even 1-1 mark and 4.85 ERA.
New York dropped the opening game of a two-game set against the Los Angeles Angels, 10-2, allowing double-digit runs for the fifth time this season and second time in their last three games. The Yankees are 3-1 this year after allowing 10 runs or more with the total going over in all four games. The club possesses the second-best home record in the American League at 30-15, behind only the Detroit Tigers (32-15). First baseman Mark Teixeira has turned his season around at the plate recently, reaching base safely in each of his last 36 games, which is the longest such streak by a Yankees player in 2010. New York is 11-4 this month (+440), the second-best record in the Majors in July behind the Chicago White Sox (12-4).
Yankees starting pitcher Javier Vazquez is making his 17th start, 18th appearance of the season, posting an even 7-7 mark and 4.45 ERA. The Angels are the only Major League team against which he does not have a victory, posting an 0-3 record and 4.38 ERA in six career starts. He has received an average of 3.9 runs per nine innings of run support this season, ranking 50th among 65 AL pitchers with 10-or-more starts. Vazquez has actually been the starter in three of the four games in which the Bronx Bombers have been blanked this season. He is 3-3 with a 4.29 ERA in seven home outings (six starts), but the offense has failed to score a run in his last two such outings.
Bettors will notice a wide disparity between the teams when playing a game with a total of 9 to 9.5. The Angels are an even 20-20 in such games this season (-400), while the Yankees are a dominating 28-16 (+400).
COOKING CAN BE RECIPE FOR A BETTER LIFE
The Columbian (Vancouver, WA) November 4, 1999 | ELIZABETH HOVDE, Columbian staff writer What an intimidating experience: learning to cook. Knowing the differences between various types of flours, how to thicken sauces and gravies without destroying the taste, even knowing how long to boil an egg all were mysteries.
The daughter of a highly talented and capable Dutch woman who grew up on farms eating whole foods plucked from the Earth, I eventually learned the basics. I knew how to shop for affordable ingredients and make meals for myself by the time I was a teen and out on my own. It is hard to imagine the lost feeling that grown adults, mothers and fathers, must experience when staring at a bag of brown rice or dried beans and not knowing how to make the goods into something edible.
In her Oct. 30 article, “Staples are tough sell at food banks,” Columbian reporter Anne Hart found that low-income community members who rely on local food banks for some of their meals are choosing hot dogs over fresh meat even salmon. They pick meals-in-a-box over staple foods, opting for quick-fix menu items that are not only less nutritional but most often more costly. Free staple foods sit on the food banks’ shelves going unused.
Why? Some folks no doubt make the choice out of convenience, just as people with plenty of money do. But Virginia Hirtler and other food-bank volunteers say many of their patrons simply lack cooking know-how. Without the skills to prepare meals that stretch a budget further, people in need carry these food bank preferences into grocery stores on already slim food budgets.
To combat the trend, Friends in Service of Humanity in Orchards gives away recipes with staple food items to try to convince patrons to take away the provisions that provide more meals for families. Hirtler, who volunteers for FISH, has even produced three cookbooks that outline recipes using common ingredients the food bank receives. In 1984 large amounts of cheese were available to patrons, so she compiled a cookbook of cheese-related meals. More than 3,000 copies of the cookbooks have gone to those in need. website how long to boil an egg
Hirtler is setting out to update the latest cookbook, adding many staple-heavy recipes and tips for using basics. Hirtler is also looking for someone to donate printing services for the books, so the food bank can get them into the hands of those who turn away staples or ditch them after being talked into taking them home because they don’t know what to do with them.
To help those in need learn to cook and make economically smart grocery-shopping choices, the North County Community Food Bank in Battle Ground hopes to offer cooking classes starting this February. The organization has done cooking classes in the past, but making it a regular offering is difficult: The bank needs a certified kitchen to teach in for free (a place where public food can be served), volunteer instructors to lead classes and funds to buy staples and coordinate the class schedule.
Kay Schauer, a home economist with the Washington State University Clark County Cooperative Extension’s family food and nutrition program, will also teach classes for people on low incomes if kitchens are available at no cost. If you have a certified kitchen and can donate some space to these efforts, call Schauer at 254-8436 or the North County Community Food Bank at 687- 7126 and ask for Elaine Hertz. To help in the cookbook effort, call Hirtler at FISH, 256-2440.
Charity that works “Give me a fish and I’ll eat for a day; teach me to fish and I’ll eat for a lifetime,” the old adage goes. And yet often we don’t realize what others don’t know and that so many of us have rich knowledge to give. howlongtoboilaneggnow.com how long to boil an egg
It is far easier to donate food baskets, or vote to increase government programs that, although well-intended, often fail: too big, too impersonal. Unfortunately, our nation’s collective goodwill has replaced charity that does work: one-on-one relationships, discipleship and teaching. This type of charity takes real time and effort but can transform lives.
Is there someone in your sphere of influence who could benefit from what you know? A young teen who could learn the skills she may need later in life? A single mother who doesn’t know how to make mashed potatoes, so she opts for prepackaged noodles? Do you know a family that has trouble making ends meet and lives without a budget to help guide them?
Fewer people will live in poverty if more one-on-one relationships are pursued and if the transfer of basic life skills from family to family can give people in need the tools required to build steps to self-sufficiency.
ELIZABETH HOVDE, Columbian staff writer
