Red Sox vs. Angels Tuesday MLB odds: Joe Maddon fired with Los Angeles on 12-game losing streak

There have now been two former World Series-winning managers fired in MLB in less than a week. The Los Angeles Angels have canned Joe Maddon with the team on a 12-game winning streak – only a few days after the Phillies fired Joe Girardi. Phil Nevin takes over as interim manager in Anaheim with the Angels as +110 home underdogs at Caesars Sportsbook tonight vs. the Boston Red Sox.

Los Angeles was shut out on just three hits in Monday's 1-0 series-opening loss to Boston – the first shutout in five years for Red Sox pitcher Michael Wacha. Los Angeles star Mike Trout had a first-inning single off Wacha to end a 0-for-26 drought, the longest hitless run of his career. That was about the lone bright spot as L.A. was blanked for the first time this season at home.

The 12-game slide ties the franchise's single-season record, set when the Angels lost the final 12 games of the 1988 season. They also lost Opening Day in 1989, making the overall franchise record 13 consecutive losses, from Sept. 19, 1988-April 4, 1989.

Nevin, a former big-league player with several teams, including the Angels in 1998, has been a coach in the majors since 2017 with the Giants, Yankees and Angels. Maddon, who won the 2016 World Series with the Cubs (Girardi won the 2009 WS as manager of the Yankees), hired him last November as the team's third-base coach.  

Amidst the turmoil, the Angels have yet to name a starting pitcher for tonight's game.

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