The LA Angels Look to Take the series from the Oakland Athletics

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The LA Angels Look to Take the series from the Oakland Athletics

The LA Angels have always been a good baseball team and winning the series from Oakland could get them on the winning track.

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Another start and another chance at a milestone win for Joel Pineiro. He tries again to get career win No. 100 Thursday as the Los Angeles Angels look to take three of four from the struggling Oakland Athletics.

Pineiro (2-0, 2.67 ERA) will make his third attempt at reaching the century mark, and pitching at Angel Stadium against Oakland (23-27) could provide the best chance for doing so.

Since joining the Angels (26-25) at the start of last season, Pineiro is 1-0 with a 0.56 ERA in two starts versus the A’s in Anaheim. That included a four-hitter in a 4-0 victory May 16, 2010.

Pineiro, who missed much of the season’s first month with a tight shoulder, didn’t get a decision in the Angels’ 5-4, 10-inning loss in Oakland on May 16.

Returning home to face Atlanta on Saturday, Pineiro has his poorest outing of the year, giving up four runs and 11 hits in 6 1-3 innings of the Angels’ 5-4 loss in 12.

Brett Anderson (2-4, 3.18), who opposed Pineiro earlier this month, will be looking to end his own dry spell.

The left-hander is 0-3 with a 5.04 ERA in five starts since defeating Seattle on April 24. Anderson, though, should not shoulder all of the blame as the Athletics’ offense has backed him with only seven runs.

On Saturday in San Francisco, Anderson was efficient in allowing a run and five hits through five innings. However, Oakland was limited to three hits in a complete game by two-time NL Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum(notes) in the 3-0 loss.

Anderson is 0-1 with a 5.84 ERA in two career starts at Angel Stadium.

With a 4-1 victory Wednesday, Los Angeles evened the season series with Oakland at four games apiece. Now they take the lead in the season series as they win this game.

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