Los Angeles Angels (2-2) vs. Chicago Cubs (1-2)<\/p>\n
Chicago; Monday, 7:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Angels: Ryan Johnson (0-0); Cubs: Edward Cabrera (0-0)<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Cubs -189, Angels +157; over\/under is 9 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Chicago Cubs host the Los Angeles Angels to begin a three-game series.<\/p>\n Chicago had a 92-70 record overall and a 50-31 record at home last season. The Cubs scored 4.9 runs per game in the 2025 season while allowing 4.0.<\/p>\n Los Angeles had a 72-90 record overall and a 33-48 record on the road last season. The Angels pitching staff averaged 8.1 strikeouts per nine innings while giving up 5.2 runs per game in the 2025 season.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Cubs: Porter Hodge: 15-Day IL (elbow), Seiya Suzuki: 10-Day IL (knee), Justin Steele: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jordan Wicks: 15-Day IL (forearm), Shelby Miller: 60-Day IL (elbow), Christopher Austin: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n Angels: Kirby Yates: 15-Day IL (knee), Robert Stephenson: 60-Day IL (elbow), Vaughn Grissom: 10-Day IL (hand), Grayson Rodriguez: 15-Day IL (arm), Ben Joyce: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Anthony Rendon: 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<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Angels (2-2) vs. Chicago Cubs (1-2) Chicago; Monday, 7:40 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Angels: Ryan Johnson…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[7900,291,9394,3287,5,942,2178,24,83436,13379,4914,582,1726,5163,875,393,99,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,4,256,9393,7274,105,849,185,1229],"class_list":["post-652135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-angels","tag-alek-manoah","tag-angels","tag-anthony-rendon","tag-athlete-injuries","tag-baseball","tag-ben-joyce","tag-california","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-christopher-austin","tag-data-skrive","tag-edward-cabrera","tag-grayson-rodriguez","tag-il-state-wire","tag-illinois","tag-jordan-wicks","tag-justin-steele","tag-kirby-yates","tag-la","tag-la-angels","tag-laangels","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesangels","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-robert-stephenson","tag-ryan-johnson","tag-seiya-suzuki","tag-shelby-miller","tag-sports","tag-vaughn-grissom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116317264315860175","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652135","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=652135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}