{"id":650164,"date":"2026-03-29T08:41:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T08:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/650164\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T08:41:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T08:41:24","slug":"angels-bring-2-1-series-advantage-over-astros-into-game-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/650164\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels bring 2-1 series advantage over Astros into game 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/los-angeles-angels-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Angels<\/a> (2-1) vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/houston-astros-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Astros<\/a> (1-2)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Houston; Sunday, 2:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">PITCHING PROBABLES: Angels: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/jack-kochanowicz-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Kochanowicz<\/a> (0-0); Astros: Tatsuya Imai (0-0)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Astros -182, Angels +152; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: The Los Angeles Angels lead 2-1 in a four-game series with the Houston Astros.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Houston had an 87-75 record overall and a 46-35 record in home games last season. The Astros averaged 8.5 hits per game in the 2025 season with 2.7 extra base hits per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">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 giving up 5.2 in the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">INJURIES: Astros: Brandon Walter: 60-Day IL (elbow), Nate Pearson: 15-Day IL (elbow), Zach Dezenzo: 10-Day IL (elbow), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/ronel-blanco-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ronel Blanco<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/bennett-sousa-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bennett Sousa<\/a>: 15-Day IL (oblique), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/enyel-de-los-santos-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Enyel De Los Santos<\/a>: 15-Day IL (knee), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/josh-hader-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Hader<\/a>: 15-Day IL (biceps), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/hayden-wesneski-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hayden Wesneski<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Angels: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/kirby-yates-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kirby Yates<\/a>: 15-Day IL (knee), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/robert-stephenson-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Stephenson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Vaughn Grissom: 10-Day IL (hand), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/grayson-rodriguez-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grayson Rodriguez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (arm), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/benjamin-joyce-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Joyce<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/anthony-rendon-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Rendon<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip), Alek Manoah: 15-Day IL (finger)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">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 (2-1) vs. Houston Astros (1-2) Houston; Sunday, 2:10 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Angels: Jack Kochanowicz&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[291,9394,5,942,3616,11192,75686,582,1432,54,758,1109,99,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,19,4,9393,766],"class_list":["post-650164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-los-angeles-angels","tag-angels","tag-anthony-rendon","tag-baseball","tag-ben-joyce","tag-bennett-sousa","tag-enyel-de-los-santos","tag-event_preview","tag-grayson-rodriguez","tag-hayden-wesneski","tag-houston-astros","tag-jack-kochanowicz","tag-josh-hader","tag-kirby-yates","tag-la","tag-la-angels","tag-laangels","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesangels","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-robert-stephenson","tag-ronel-blanco"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116311574884456527","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650164","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=650164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}