The Angels don’t have to play all the regulars every day, these final 11 days of the season.

But they should play enough of them, often enough, that they have a real shot at winning 100 games.

A couple of good reasons to aim high:

–The franchise never has managed 100 victories. The 2002 World Series team won 99. That’s as good as it gets. And it would be nice just to do it. Once, in 48 seasons. Win 100, like the serious franchises have, a time or five.

–The Angels might need 100 to secure home-field advantage in the playoffs.

Granted, this isn’t football, where home field is a palpable difference-maker.

But the Angels’ likely first-round opponent — the Red Sox or the Devil Rays — are special cases.

Both of those teams aren’t just a little better at home. They’re miles better at home. And “home” is a weird, quirky place.

Tampa Bay is 55-22 at home, the best own-field winning percentage (.714) in all of baseball.

Boston is 52-22 at home (.702), the second-best hometown winning percentage.

Those two are fighting it out for the AL East championship, and the runner-up will be the wild card — and get the Angels.

The Angels will have home-field advantage in the first round, against the wild card, but if you look down the road (at, say, the AL Championship Series) there is a strong chance the Angels will get the Red Sox or Rays — if they beat (presumably) the White Sox in the other divisional playoffs series.

And the Angels will be much better off playing a potential four games in Anaheim, in a best-of-seven series, than just three.

Everyone knows Fenway Park is difficult for visitors, particularly for the Angels, who have seen their postseason hopes go there to die three times in the franchise’s last five postseason forays (1986, 2004, 2007). The Green Monster, the rabid fans sitting on top of the action. If you can avoid an extra game of that, you should.

Not everyone is quite as up to speed on the weirdness of Tropicana Field, in St. Petersburg, Fla. But it is odd, as well. A dark dome, with fast, almost-bald artificial turf. Everything Angel Stadium is not, that is.

The Angels have lost five of six games in Tropicana this season, and they should want to be sure they don’t have to play a best-of-seven with the Rays having home field. Also because as good as the Rays are at home, they are just as mediocre on the road — 35-38 (.479).

The Angels begin play today at 92-59,  1.5 games ahead of the Rays and 3.5 ahead of the Red Sox.

Mike Scioscia should think of keeping up the pressure, and see if his team can win eight of its final 11 against the nothing-to-play-for AL West opponents the Angels see between now and Sept. 28.

Putting them at 100 victories and all but assuring they will have home field for as long as their postseason lasts. That’s a nice, round, significant goal.