Chicago Cubs (74-55, second in the NL Central) vs. Los Angeles Angels (61-67, fourth in the AL West)<\/p>\n
Anaheim, California; Saturday, 9:38 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Cubs: Cade Horton (7-4, 3.08 ERA, 1.20 WHIP, 70 strikeouts); Angels: Victor Mederos (0-1, 5.54 ERA, 1.85 WHIP, 10 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
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BOTTOM LINE: The Chicago Cubs lead 1-0 in a three-game series with the Los Angeles Angels.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles has gone 34-33 in home games and 61-67 overall. The Angels have hit 181 total home runs to rank fourth in the majors.<\/p>\n
Chicago has gone 33-30 on the road and 74-55 overall. The Cubs are 38-11 in games when they hit at least two home runs.<\/p>\n
The teams meet Saturday for the second time this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Taylor Ward leads the Angels with 29 home runs while slugging .483. Jo Adell is 10 for 37 with a double, three home runs and eight RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Kyle Tucker has 21 doubles, four triples and 19 home runs while hitting .258 for the Cubs. Matt Shaw is 6 for 27 with a double, a triple and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
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LAST 10 GAMES: Angels: 5-5, .224 batting average, 5.10 ERA, outscored by six runs<\/p>\n
Cubs: 6-4, .197 batting average, 2.93 ERA, outscored by two runs<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Angels: Gustavo Campero: 10-Day IL (ankle), Chris Taylor: 10-Day IL (hand), Jorge Soler: 10-Day IL (back), Hunter Strickland: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Ben Joyce: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Anthony Rendon: 60-Day IL (hip)<\/p>\n
Cubs: Ryan Brasier: 15-Day IL (groin), Miguel Amaya: 10-Day IL (ankle), Mike Soroka: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Eli Morgan: 60-Day IL (elbow), Justin Steele: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Cubs (74-55, second in the NL Central) vs. Los Angeles Angels (61-67, fourth in the AL West)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[291,9394,5,942,735,138,24,4245,161,410,1337,4900,2179,3509,393,29,774,56,716,728,5860,4,2165,5694,5317,450],"class_list":{"0":"post-266809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-cubs","8":"tag-angels","9":"tag-anthony-rendon","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-ben-joyce","12":"tag-cade-horton","13":"tag-chicago","14":"tag-chicago-cubs","15":"tag-chicagocubs","16":"tag-cubs","17":"tag-eli-morgan","18":"tag-gustavo-campero","19":"tag-hunter-strickland","20":"tag-jo-adell","21":"tag-jorge-soler","22":"tag-justin-steele","23":"tag-kyle-tucker","24":"tag-los-angeles","25":"tag-los-angeles-angels","26":"tag-matt-shaw","27":"tag-miguel-amaya","28":"tag-mike-soroka","29":"tag-mlb","30":"tag-ryan-brasier","31":"tag-taylor-ward","32":"tag-the-angels","33":"tag-victor-mederos"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115077340504427715","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}