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Sports Illustrated jinx? The Angels hope not.

Los Angeles Times staffer Mike DiGiovanna
By Mike DiGiovanna
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At least one pubication thinks the Angels will overcome their early-season pitching injuries and will have more than enough offense this season.

Sports Illustrated, in its baseball preview issue that comes out this week, has picked the Angels to reach the World Series but then lose to the New York Mets.

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The magazine predicts the Angels will beat the Boston Red Sox in the first round of the playoffs and the New York Yankees in the American League championship series. The Angels lost to the Red Sox in the division series in 2004, 2007 and 2008.

— Mike DiGiovanna

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Mike DiGiovanna

Mike DiGiovanna has been covering Major League Baseball for the Los Angeles Times since 1995 and spent 19 years as the Angels beat writer and two seasons on the Dodgers. He won Associated Press Sports Editors awards for game-story writing in 2001, feature-story writing in 2017 and breaking news in 2019. A native of East Lyme, Conn., and a graduate of Cal State Fullerton, he began writing for The Times in 1981.

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