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Los Angeles Angels<\/a> vs. Houston Astros<\/a><\/p>\n

Houston; Thursday, 4:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Angels: Jose Soriano<\/a> (0-0); Astros: Hunter Brown<\/a> (0-0)<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Astros -182, Angels +151; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Houston Astros host the Los Angeles Angels in the season opener.<\/p>\n

Houston went 87-75 overall and 46-35 in home games last season. The Astros scored 4.2 runs per game in the 2025 season while allowing 4.1.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles had a 72-90 record overall and a 33-48 record in road games last season. The Angels scored 4.2 runs per game while allowing 5.2 last season.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Astros: Brandon Walter: 60-Day IL (elbow), Nate Pearson: 15-Day IL (elbow), Zach Dezenzo: 10-Day IL (elbow), Ronel Blanco<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Bennett Sousa<\/a>: 15-Day IL (oblique), Enyel De Los Santos<\/a>: 15-Day IL (knee), Josh Hader<\/a>: 15-Day IL (biceps), Hayden Wesneski<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Angels: Kirby Yates<\/a>: 15-Day IL (knee), Robert Stephenson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Vaughn Grissom: 10-Day IL (hand), Grayson Rodriguez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (arm), Ben Joyce<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Anthony Rendon<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip), Alek Manoah: 15-Day IL (finger)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Angels vs. Houston Astros Houston; Thursday, 4:10 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Angels: Jose Soriano (0-0); Astros:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2390],"tags":[291,9394,5,942,3616,11192,75686,582,1432,54,1328,3508,1109,99,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,19,4,9393,766],"class_list":{"0":"post-644293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-angels","8":"tag-angels","9":"tag-anthony-rendon","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-ben-joyce","12":"tag-bennett-sousa","13":"tag-enyel-de-los-santos","14":"tag-event_preview","15":"tag-grayson-rodriguez","16":"tag-hayden-wesneski","17":"tag-houston-astros","18":"tag-hunter-brown","19":"tag-jose-soriano","20":"tag-josh-hader","21":"tag-kirby-yates","22":"tag-la","23":"tag-la-angels","24":"tag-laangels","25":"tag-los-angeles","26":"tag-los-angeles-angels","27":"tag-losangeles","28":"tag-losangelesangels","29":"tag-major-league-baseball","30":"tag-mlb","31":"tag-robert-stephenson","32":"tag-ronel-blanco"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116295012805021766","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644293","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=644293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}