{"id":116707,"date":"2009-08-20T16:04:54","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T16:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vip.local\/2009\/08\/20\/game-countdown-82009-complete-the-sweep-angels-indians\/"},"modified":"2009-08-20T16:04:54","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T16:04:54","slug":"game-countdown-82009-complete-the-sweep-angels-indians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/game-countdown-82009-complete-the-sweep-angels-indians\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Countdown &#8211; 8\/20\/09: Complete the Sweep &#8211; Angels @ Indians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong><strong>Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim<\/strong><\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong>(73-45) <strong>@ Cleveland Indians<\/strong><\/strong><strong><strong> <\/strong>(51-68)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Starters:<\/strong> LAA &#8211; John Lackey (8-5, 3.73 ERA)\u00a0 CLE &#8211; Justin Masterson (3-4, 4.70 ERA)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Game Info:<\/strong> 4:05 PM PT TV-Fox Sports West, Radio-KLAA 830 AM, KFWB, KWKW 1330 AM<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#cc0000;\">THREE <\/span>Questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Can the Angels complete the sweep?<\/li>\n<li>Can Lackey pick up win number 100 for his career?<\/li>\n<li>How funny is it going to look if Jeff Mathis, who is barely hitting .200 starts amidst a line-up comprised totally over .300 hitters?\u00a0 One of these things is not like the other ones.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#cc0000;\">TWO <\/span>Predictions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Call me crazy, but I am thinking the Angels shutout the Tribe yet again.<\/li>\n<li>The newest Indian starter Justin Masterson doesn&#8217;t survive the third as he no longer has his the Red Sox magic over the Angels backing him up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#cc0000;\">ONE <\/span>Wish:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>That I didn&#8217;t have a big day job interference today so that this could&#8217;ve been better (and not so damn early), sorry everyone.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#cc0000;\">ZERO <\/span>Tolerance for\u2026 <\/strong>Juan Rivera in the three-hole.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know what Sosh has planned with the line-up tonight, but I really hope he isn&#8217;t still on crack and going with Rivera hitting third and Hunter fifth or sixth.\u00a0 It just doesn&#8217;t make any sense&#8230; at all.\u00a0 Knock it off.<\/p>\n<p>Leave your own questions, answers, predictions or wishes as a comment or just hang out with us during the game or even chat with us on twitter (<a title=\"@MonkeyWithAHalo\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/MonkeyWithAHalo\" target=\"_blank\">@MonkeyWithAHalo<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (73-45) @ Cleveland Indians (51-68) Starters: LAA &#8211; John Lackey (8-5, 3.73 ERA)\u00a0 CLE &#8211;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96690106],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.2 (Yoast SEO v22.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Game Countdown - 8\/20\/09: Complete the Sweep - Angels @ Indians - The Sports Daily<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/game-countdown-82009-complete-the-sweep-angels-indians\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Game Countdown &#8211; 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