Here come the Angels, a team that I usually expect to be disappointing and underperforming. They’re not bad, though, having clawed back to 33-34 from a season-low eight games below .500 on May 14. At one point this month they had an eight-game win streak, but then lost five straight. Ergo: streaky. Which is better than bad.
These two teams are approximately equally bad in pitching, ranked at the back of the MLB classroom by Fangraphs (25th and 26th in WAR, respectively). The same came be said of today’s two starters, Charlie Morton (6.59 ERA, 5.24 FIP over 56 IP in 15 G/9 GS) and Jack Kochanowicz (5.