New Schedule Rules Refresher

• Starting last year, every team now plays every other team at least once
  • Division: 2 home/2 away series for every division rival (13 games x 4 teams) = 52
  • Intraleague:1 home/1 away for every league rival ( 6 games vs 6 teams + 7 games vs 4 teams) = 64
  • Interleague: either 1 home OR 1 away for every interleague rival except for a 2 home and 2 away series vs the natural rival (i.e. Dodgers for the Angels) [3 games x 13 teams + 4 games x Dodgers] = 46

Random Tidbits on the Angels Schedule

• Open the season Thu Mar 28 visiting BAL with a built in off day the next day
• The Angels start off 6 of their first 8 series vs AL East teams ( BALx2, TBRx2, BOSx2)
• The first game vs an AL West rival is not until May 17th (would be series #15 on the season). Here are the 1st matchups vs each AL West Rival
  • TEX 5/17
  • HOU 5/20
  • SEA 5/31
  • OAK 6/24
• They will play both their home and away series for the season vs the following teams before facing the division rivals SEA and OAK for the first time this season.
  • BAL
  • TBR
  • BOS
  • CLE
  • All Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida teams in either league (CIN, PHI, PIT, MIA)
• The 4 AL teams in Central/East they play 7 times (instead of 6) are
  • TBR
  • KCR
  • DET
  • TOR
• They will play an 11 game stretch exclusively vs NL teams from 6/11 to 6/22 (ARI, SFG, MIL, LAD)
• They will play all 13 games vs OAK from June 24 to July 28
• July —
  • For 20 days, from July 8 to July 28, they will play only AL West teams (facing all but HOU, All Star break half way through).
  • 20 of 25 games in July will be vs AL West
• Conversely, from July 29 to August 29, no AL West games. (2 of the 29 games in August vs AL West).
• The Home Freeway Series will not be during a weekend. It will be played on the Tuesday and Wednesday after Labor Day (no game on Labor Day).
• They play 7 (of 13) games vs HOU and 7 (of 13) games vs TEX all in September (14 of the last 23 games of the season).
• Alternatively, 6 of the last 13 games are vs the White Sox
• Last game of the regular season is September 29 vs TEX

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How are we feeling for this season?

Have we all got our O’Hopium supply replenished or are we feeling Rendone?

Either way, go Halos!