The Yankees are the favorite heading into this series.
The New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Angels will be squaring off in the ALCS for the right to go to the World Series. Both teams come into the ALCS on the heels of very convincing and powerful performances as both teams swept their respective first round match-ups. Figuring out who is a good call in this series requires examining their head to head history over the year and their respective odds.
Here are the head to head results from the past year (home team is the latter):
April 30th: Los Angeles 4, New York 7
May 1: Los Angeles 9, New York 10
2nd: Los Angeles 8, New York 4
July 10th: New York 6, Los Angeles 10
11th: New York 8, Los Angeles 14
12th: New York 4, Los Angeles 5
September 14th: Los Angeles 3, New York 5
September 21st: New York 2, Los Angeles 5
22nd: New York 6, Los Angeles 5
23rd: New York 3, Los Angeles 2
In ten head to head meetings this year the teams went .500 against one another at 5 wins and 5 losses a piece. Significantly, New York got outscored by the Angels 65-55 in their ten games but more games were played in Los Angeles.
New York has home field advantage in the ALCS because of their superior regular season winning percentage and that should give them the edge they need in beating the Angels. New York went 3-1 against the Angels in games that were played in New York while the Yankees won the last two meetings between the two teams in Anaheim.
April aside (and who cares about April now), the New York Yankees have played like an outstanding team all year and they are our recommendation to win the ALCS. You would be smart to put some money on them to win the World Series as well as they will have home field advantage there should they beat the Angels.
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Sportingbet the Yankees come in at -190 (10/19) to win the ALCS while the Angels come in at +150 (3/2).
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