{"id":360037,"date":"2025-07-29T13:35:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T17:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.northstargaming.ca\/admin\/nsgcms\/?p=360037"},"modified":"2025-07-29T13:35:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T17:35:51","slug":"rangers-vs-angels-predictions-july-29-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.northstargaming.ca\/admin\/nsgcms\/rangers-vs-angels-predictions-july-29-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers vs. Angels SGP predictions July 29: Bet on Mike Trout and Corey Seager in +340 SGP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Texas Rangers and Los Angeles Angels provide baseball fans with a late-night AL West showdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The pregame narrative:<\/strong> Texas had won six straight games before yesterday&#8217;s loss, and looks to rebound against L.A. southpaw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/news\/stats\/mlb\/yusei_kikuchi\/pitching-stats\">Yusei Kikuchi<\/a>. I&#8217;m targeting three players in this +340 SGP, including Kikuchi and his teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/news\/stats\/mlb\/mike_trout\/batting-stats\">Mike Trout<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Check out my Rangers vs. Angels predictions, also featuring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/news\/stats\/mlb\/corey_seager\/batting-stats\">Corey Seager<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rangers vs. Angels predictions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Parlay: Kikuchi over 5.5 Ks | Seager over 1.5 bases | Trout over 0.5 hits (+340)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Kikuchi over 5.5 Ks (-175):<\/strong> Kikuchi is prone to giving up hard contact, but he&#8217;s also a consistent strikeout arm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The lefty has a respectable 24.1% K rate (63rd percentile) and has logged five-plus Ks in eight of his last 10 starts. In that span, Kikuchi is 5-5 against this line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He has every opportunity to over-index tonight against a Rangers team with the sixth-highest K rate vs. LHP (25.3%). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the last 30 days, Texas has the second-highest K rate (27.9%) and the seventh-lowest wRC+ (78) against lefties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kikuchi is 2-1 against this line in his last three starts against the Rangers, averaging exactly 6.0 Ks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"cacheembed:116396\">Embed: #116396<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul id=\"block-10146156-2d6b-49a8-b097-37743fd550b5\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/sports-hub\/baseball\/mlb?utm_source=insights&amp;utm_medium=text_link&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=sportsbook_mlb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Full MLB betting markets<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/news\/article\/mlb-injury-report?utm_source=insights&amp;utm_medium=text_link&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=injury_reports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>MLB injury report<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/news\/stats\/mlb\/top-players\/hitting\/OPS-on-base_plus_slugging?utm_source=insights&amp;utm_medium=text_link&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=stats_pages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>MLB stats &amp; standings<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">MLB SGP legs<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><strong><strong><strong>Seager over 1.5 bases<\/strong> <\/strong><\/strong>(-110): <\/strong>I said earlier that Kikuchi can get hit hard, and want to tap into that by backing Seager. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Kikuchi ranks in the 33rd percentile or lower in barrel rate, hard-hit rate and average exit velocity. His 91.4 mph average exit velocity ranks in the sixth percentile.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Seager is slashing .333\/.455\/.630 this month with nine doubles and five HRs. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>He bats from the left side, but his SLG vs. LHP (.515) is higher than his SLG vs. RHP (.470).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seager is 4-for-15 off Kikuchi with a home run. That might not seem impressive, but his .344 xBA and .665 xSLG in those at-bats indicate there is a lot more production on the table. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><strong><strong><strong>Trout over 0.5 hits<\/strong><\/strong> (-245)<\/strong>:<\/strong> I&#8217;ve been trying to fade Rangers starter Patrick Corbin for a while, and it&#8217;s seldom worked out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The veteran is having his best season in years, posting a 3.78 ERA with a 1.27 WHIP. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Corbin&#8217;s .271 xBA tells me he&#8217;s gotten a bit lucky, and his 75th percentile walk rate indicates Trout should be putting the ball in play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trout isn&#8217;t having a great year by any means, but I think he can take advantage of this righty-lefty matchup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The slugger has a hit in 10 of his last 14 games. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Rangers vs. Angels predictions made at 1:05 p.m. ET on 07\/29\/2025<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Rangers and Los Angeles Angels provide baseball fans with a late-night AL West showdown. The pregame narrative: Texas had won six straight games before yesterday&#8217;s loss, and looks to rebound against L.A. southpaw Yusei Kikuchi. I&#8217;m targeting three players in this +340 SGP, including Kikuchi and his teammate Mike Trout. Check out my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":360048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sidebar_plugin_meta_block_field":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[130],"class_list":["post-360037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","tag-mlb"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rangers vs. Angels predictions: July 29 MLB SGP | NorthStar Bets<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check out our Rangers vs. Angels predictions for July 29, 2025. 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