The Rangers show up to Anaheim ice cold and the Angels show up scorching, and somebody has to give. Texas has looked like a team pressing at the plate, the kind of slump where every rally dies with a runner at second. The Angels are the opposite problem for opposing pitchers right now, rolling into this series playing their best baseball of the stretch. Put a struggling offense across from a hot one and you get a genuinely interesting number sitting at 7.5.
Does a slump mean a lineup is due to break out against exactly the kind of pitching staff that's been rolling, or does a cold Rangers bat and a lights out Angels arm combine to keep this thing buried under 7.5? Nothing about either team's form guarantees a shootout or a snoozer, it just sets the table.
Texas Rangers at Los Angeles Angels, and the only question that matters: over or under 7.5 runs.