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ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Back when the 2016 major league schedule was announced, any rational baseball fan likely would have looked at three-game series Sept. 9-11 between the Los Angeles Angels and Texas Rangers as pivotal to the American League West race.As it stands now, however, the Rangers hold a comfortable 8 1/2-game lead in the West, while the Angels have long since been reduced to playing spoiler, mixing and matching young players and veterans who are trying to make a good impression on club officials for next year and beyond.The Friday starting pitchers for the two clubs are similar, though. Both are Tommy John surgery survivors who missed all of the 2015 season and part of this season.Texas right-hander Yu Darvish, who also battled shoulder troubles this year, is 5-4 with a 3.45 ERA in 13 starts. Los Angeles left-hander Tyler Skaggs, who didnt make his season debut until July 26, is 3-3 with a 4.71 ERA in eight starts.Darvish is coming off his shortest outing of the season, when he lasted just four innings and gave up five runs and seven hits in a 7-6 loss to the Houston Astros on Sunday.I felt very good going into the game, he said. I think I was feeling well, so I have to tip the hats to their offense today. Command-wise, I didnt feel as bad as I did the last time I struggled. The bloopers, the ground balls found a way. We put the shift on and it went through it. Its just one of those things. I didnt think I was that bad.Darvish is 7-2 with a 4.00 ERA in 12 career starts against the Angels.Skaggs, meanwhile, seems to be finding a rhythm. He is coming off back-to-back victories over the Detroit Tigers and Seattle Mariners in which he gave up three runs in 12 total innings.For Skaggs, the life on his fastball seems to be improving, according to Angels manager Mike Scioscia, and he continues to develop his changeup.In three career starts against Texas, Skaggs is 2-1 with a 7.90 ERA.Skaggs will benefit from the return to the lineup of designated hitter Albert Pujols and center fielder Mike Trout. Both got a day off for rest on Wednesday and then another day with Thursdays scheduled day off.Trout has finished first or second in AL Most Valuable Player voting in each of his four full seasons and will get votes again this year, though playing for a team near the bottom of the division will hurt his chances. Even his own manager said recently that he didnt think players on a last-place team should win the MVP.The Angels arent in last, but they are close enough to hurt Trout despite his lofty numbers going into the series: .323 average, 27 homers, 88 RBI, 24 stolen bases, 109 runs (tied for the AL lead), .442 on-base percentage (best in majors).Trout has hit Darvish well, batting .294 (10-for-34) with four homers, a double, six RBI and six walks against him.Pujols also has put up big numbers this season, his 110 RBI among the leagues leaders. It is his highest RBI total since he had 118 in 2010 while playing for the St. Louis Cardinals.Its fun anytime Albert hits a home run, anytime he gets an RBI or an extra-base hit, Angels manager Mike Scioscia said recently. Every time something happens, hes in some conversation with the all-time greats.One of the hottest Texas hitters of late is Carlos Gomez, who has been with the club only a couple of weeks following his release from the Astros. 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Three people were killed and more than 260 injured, including at least 16 who lost limbs.It may have had a chequered history where Australian rules is concerned, but ANZ Stadium has the chance to farewell the code in style.The ground is set to attract the biggest AFL attendance in Sydney for at least nine years, with 60,000 fans expected for the qualifying final derby between Sydney and Greater Western Sydney on Saturday.A crowd of that magnitude will justify the AFLs decision to take the game away from the Swans SCG base, which has a highest AFL attendance of 46,168.The historic first all-Sydney AFL Final is clearly the biggest game in the history of the code in NSW, ANZ Stadium chief executive Darryl Kerry said.It will also be a fitting farewell for AFL footy at ANZ Stadium, which will soon be redeveloped as a world-class rectangular stadium.Although it was a ground some Swans supporters found hard to love, they certainly celebrated plenty of famous wins at the venue.The club won eight out of ten finals there and has a 32-22 record overall, having played in all 54 AFL games held in the main stadium for the 2000 Olympics.The poor state of the ground was a frequent talking point in the aftermath of several games, especially when matches were played within a day or two of rugby league fixtures.It also drew negative headlines in 2015 when Hawthorns Jarryd Rougheads guernsey was ripped and his back marked after he slid over exposed bolts behind thee goals.ddddddddddddFor all the controversy, the ground has also provided its share of drama and excitement and big crowds.On 11 occasions it hosted crowds of more than 50,000, two of them over 70,000 for finals matches in 2003 against Collingwood and Brisbane,The Magpies were the most frequent visitors to the venue playing 13 games, while four teams never played there, the two South Australian clubs, Gold Coast and Western Bulldogs.NUMBERS FOR AFL AT ANZ STADIUM* Biggest crowd: 72,393. Sydney v Collingwood 2003 (Record AFL attendance outside Victoria)* Lowest crowd: 19,127 Sydney v North Melbourne 2008* Average crowd for home and away rounds: 40,403* Average crowd for finals: 44,372* Total attendance: 2,221,475* Highest score: 146 (22.14) Sydney v Carlton 2003, (23.8) Hawthorn v Sydney 2015* Lowest score: West Coast 34 (4.10) v Sydney 2004* Biggest margin 94 Sydney 19.18 (132) GWS 5.8 (38) 2012* Most games played: 49 (Adam Goodes, Syd)* Most goals kicked: 87 (Barry Hall, Syd)* Most goals kicked in a game 6 (three times by Barry Hall Syd) once each by Kurt Tippett (Syd), Travis Cloke (Collingwood), Michael OLoughlin (Syd) David Neitz (Melb) and Steve Johnson (Geelong)* Most disposals in a game: Gary Ablett 44 Geelong v Sydney 2009 ' ' '