Red Sox vs. Angels MLB Picks: Boston, Los Angeles Heading in Opposite Directions

The Los Angeles Angels have been sputtering for a while, and now the suddenly hot Boston Red Sox come to town. Let's examine the matchup in our Red Sox-Angels picks.

The Angels being good or at least competent sure was fun for a few weeks. Then their journey down the longest drain began, and they're now on an 11-game losing streak.

They'll try to end that slide against a Red Sox team that's been disappointing in 2022, but Boston has recently clawed its way back to .500 after stringing together four straight wins. Which streak continues on Monday?

Here are my Angels-Red Sox picks and predictions for their MLB matchup on Monday (odds via FanDuel Sportsbook and DraftKings Sportsbook; pick confidence based on a 1-to-5-star scale).

Red Sox vs. Angels Game Info

Date: Monday, June 6, 9:38 p.m. ETLocation: Angel Stadium, Anaheim, CAWeather: 70 degrees, 0% chance of precipitation, 7-mph southern winds

Red Sox vs. Angels Odds

Red Sox vs. Angels Odds Analysis

FanDuel is offering the best price on the Red Sox at +108. DraftKings differs slightly at +100, while Caesars Sportsbook, BetMGM, and PointsBet are at -105. The Red Sox are getting 61% of the cash on 56% of the tickets.

The total is set at 9 across the board, with the price on the Over almost universally at -120, and the Under set at +100. The Over is getting 93% of the cash and 79% of the tickets.

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Red Sox vs. Angels Projected Pitchers

RHP Michael Wacha (3-1, 2.43 ERA, 1.01 WHIP) vs. RHP Noah Syndergaard (4-3, 4.02 ERA, 1.22 WHIP)

Wacha won't sit down many batters, as he's recorded only 27 strikeouts over 40 2/3 innings. His K/9 is just 6.0, far down from Wacha's 8.7 in 2021 and 8.0 career average. But that hasn't seemed to matter. His ERA remains impressively low, as he's coughed up over two runs in a game just once.

Meanwhile, it's becoming difficult to project which version of Syndergaard will appear. Will it be the guy who allowed a combined nine earned runs over just three innings during recent starts against the New York Yankees and Texas Rangers? Or will it be the hurler who gave up just four earned runs over three starts in April?

Red Sox vs. Angels Picks

Red Sox (+108 via FanDuel)????Under 9 (+100 via DraftKings)????Xander Bogaerts to record two-plus hits (+190 via FanDuel)???

Red Sox vs. Angels ML Pick

Red Sox (+108)

The Red Sox have been pouncing on easy competition lately while beating up on the Oakland Athletics and Cincinnati Reds. They won the second contest of a two-game set against the Reds before sweeping the Athletics, and Boston has outscored its opponents 27-5 over the team's modest four-game winning streak.

Boston's scoring isn't a recent surge either, as the team sits fifth overall in runs (262), and the squad boasts the league's sixth-best run differential. The club also holds MLB's second-best batting average against righties, sitting at .257.

The Angels will face a righty as well in Wacha, but they're hitting only .243 against right-handers (15th). Wacha didn't allow an earned run against them over 5 2/3 innings during a 4-0 Boston win on May 3. He also surrendered only three hits, none of which went for extra bases.

That was one of Wacha's three outings out of eight starts in 2022 in which he hasn't allowed an earned run. He's given up a mere 11 earned runs overall, and even that doesn't accurately show his effectiveness, as five came in one rough outing.

Wacha should be able to take advantage of an ideal matchup against a team with a plummeting run differential of now just plus-11. And the Red Sox are primed to tee off on Syndergaard, who's allowed a home run in four of his past five outings.

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Red Sox vs. Angels O/U Pick

Under 9 (+100)

The issue for those eyeing the Over isn't Boston, and if the Red Sox can make Syndergaard's night miserable. No, it's whether the Angels can contribute enough. Which should feel like an odd thing to say about a team with Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani. But such is the state of the Angels (again).

During their 11-game spiral down the deepest and blackest of holes, the Angels have averaged 3.2 runs per game. That stretch includes being held to one or zero runs four times, all within the past week.

Breakout stud Taylor Ward is out, along with his 10 homers and 1.087 OPS. Trout is also mired in an 0-for-26 career-worst slump, taking his batting average down to .274. Between the Angels' raging tire fire offensively and Wacha's brilliance, it's difficult to imagine Los Angeles doing enough for the Over to hit.

Red Sox vs. Angels Prop Bet

Bogaerts to record two-plus hits (+190)

Like the rest of Boston's offense, shortstop Xander Bogaerts has been sizzling lately. Sunday's game was a rare hitless outing for the infielder, but he recorded multi-hit games in the two previous contests. He's also not far removed from a three-hit game on May 29.

The three-time All-Star has recorded two-plus hits during 32.1% of his games in 2022, and he ranks among the top 20 in the majors in average (.323, eighth) and OPS (.878, 17th). Even more encouragingly ahead of Monday's matchup against the Angels and Syndergaard, Bogaerts is hitting .314 against righties.

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Red Sox-Angels picks made 6/6/2022 at 2:17 p.m. ET.