#914 ASA TOP PLAY ON 10* Texas Rangers -125 over Los Angeles Angels, Thursday at 8 PM ET - Los Angeles has been red hot but this is a tough spot for them and we’ll fade the Angels tonight. They won Tuesday for their 8th win in 9 games but they lost to the Rangers yesterday in the third game of this 4-game set with Texas. More of the same on the way here as the loss dropped the Angels to just 12-20 in their games against teams with a winning record this season. Texas is 22-11 in home games this season. We get line value here because Shohei Ohtani is on the mound for the Angels in this one. The fact is he is not pitching as well as Nathan Eovaldi this season plus Ohtani is known, throughout his career, for struggling more on the road than at home. His ERA throughout his career is practically twice as high on the road compared to at home in Anaheim where he does tend to be tough. Ohtani's road struggles have resumed as this season has gone on as he has allowed at least 4 earned runs in each of his last 3 appearances on the road! He’s facing a Texas line up that has been very good all season at home where they are ranked #1 for batting average (.287) and also #1 with a .500 slugging percentage! The Rangers are averaging 6.6 RPG this season at home. They will send red hot Eovaldi to the mound. We look for him to bounce back after a rare tougher outing vs Rays in Tampa in his most recent start. For the season Eovaldi has an ERA of 2.49 and a 9-2 record. Prior to the start versus TB, in looking at his 6 starts leading into that one, he allowed 1 earned run in one of them and 0 earned runs in 4 of them! Eovaldi has been rock solid this season including an 8-0 record in his last 10 starts! Take the Rangers