Atlanta Braves (6-4) vs. Los Angeles Angels (5-5)<\/p>\n
Anaheim, California; Monday, 9:38 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Braves: Chris Sale (2-0, 0.75 ERA, 0.58 WHIP, nine strikeouts); Angels: Jose Soriano (2-0, 0.00 ERA, 0.83 WHIP, 11 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Braves -165, Angels +139; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Los Angeles Angels host the Atlanta Braves to start a three-game series.<\/p>\n Los Angeles went 72-90 overall and 39-42 in home games a season ago. The Angels pitching staff had a collective 4.89 ERA last season while averaging 8.1 strikeouts and 3.9 walks per nine innings.<\/p>\n Atlanta had a 76-86 record overall and a 37-44 record in road games last season. The Braves scored 4.5 runs per game in the 2025 season while giving up 4.5.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Angels: Mike Trout: day-to-day (hand), Ryan Johnson: day-to-day (illness), 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 Braves: AJ Smith-Shawver: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ha-Seong Kim: 10-Day IL (finger), Spencer Strider: 15-Day IL (oblique), Danny Young: 15-Day IL (elbow), Daysbel Hernandez: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Sean Murphy: 10-Day IL (hip), Hurston Waldrep: 15-Day IL (elbow), Spencer Schwellenbach: 60-Day IL (elbow), Joe Jimenez: 60-Day IL (knee), Joey Wentz: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/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":"Atlanta Braves (6-4) vs. Los Angeles Angels (5-5) Anaheim, California; Monday, 9:38 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Braves: Chris…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[1266,7900,291,9394,3287,46,5,942,2178,919,1563,13379,17141,652,2295,582,633,5163,10367,1710,3508,99,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,603,4,256,9393,7274,656,659,773,185,1229],"class_list":{"0":"post-666104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-angels","8":"tag-aj-smith-shawver","9":"tag-alek-manoah","10":"tag-angels","11":"tag-anthony-rendon","12":"tag-athlete-injuries","13":"tag-atlanta-braves","14":"tag-baseball","15":"tag-ben-joyce","16":"tag-california","17":"tag-chris-sale","18":"tag-danny-young","19":"tag-data-skrive","20":"tag-daysbel-hernandez","21":"tag-ga-state-wire","22":"tag-georgia","23":"tag-grayson-rodriguez","24":"tag-ha-seong-kim","25":"tag-illinois","26":"tag-joe-jimenez","27":"tag-joey-wentz","28":"tag-jose-soriano","29":"tag-kirby-yates","30":"tag-la","31":"tag-la-angels","32":"tag-laangels","33":"tag-los-angeles","34":"tag-los-angeles-angels","35":"tag-losangeles","36":"tag-losangelesangels","37":"tag-mike-trout","38":"tag-mlb","39":"tag-mlb-baseball","40":"tag-robert-stephenson","41":"tag-ryan-johnson","42":"tag-sean-murphy","43":"tag-spencer-schwellenbach","44":"tag-spencer-strider","45":"tag-sports","46":"tag-vaughn-grissom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666104","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=666104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666104\/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=666104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}