Who Will Win The American League West
It is not possible to predict who will the American League West in October as the Rangers have already won the division. However, this blog focuses on statistical information for the American League West as well as reasons why the Angels got second place in the division. In the 2011 baseball season, the Texas Rangers, easily won the American League West as the Rangers beat out the Los Angeles Angels team by ten games. The Rangers finished the season with ninety-six wins and sixty-six losses; which gave the a winning percentage of .Didn’t catch that? This explains it.593.
The Rangers and the Angels were fairly close in standings all season, with the two teams battling for first place all season. The downfall for the Angels came when the team lost six of their last seven games in the 2011 season. By the time the Rangers played the Angels for the last three games of the season it didn’t matter as the Rangers had already won the division. This losing streak for the Angels came with home field advantage as two of these games were lost against Athletics and three came againist the Rangers at the Angels’ staduim. Only one of the last six losses for the Angeles came on the road againist the Blue Jays.