{"id":668014,"date":"2026-04-07T08:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/668014\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T08:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:53:14","slug":"braves-take-road-skid-into-matchup-with-the-angels-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/668014\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves take road skid into matchup with the Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"

Atlanta Braves<\/a> (6-5, fourth in the NL East) vs. Los Angeles Angels<\/a> (6-5, second in the AL West)<\/p>\n

Anaheim, California; Tuesday, 9:38 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Braves: Reynaldo Lopez<\/a> (1-0, 1.64 ERA, 0.91 WHIP, six strikeouts); Angels: Yusei Kikuchi<\/a> (0-1, 6.52 ERA, 1.97 WHIP, eight strikeouts)<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Braves -140, Angels +118; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Atlanta Braves travel to the Los Angeles Angels looking to stop a three-game road skid.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles has a 6-5 record overall and a 3-1 record at home. The Angels have a 2-0 record in games decided by one run.<\/p>\n

Atlanta is 6-5 overall and 2-3 on the road. The Braves are second in the NL with 15 total home runs, averaging 1.4 per game.<\/p>\n

The teams match up Tuesday for the second time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Zach Neto<\/a> has four home runs, eight walks and six RBIs while hitting .233 for the Angels. Nolan Schanuel<\/a> is 9 for 37 with a double, two home runs and seven RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Drake Baldwin<\/a> has a double and five home runs for the Braves. Mauricio Dubon<\/a> is 12 for 36 with two doubles, two home runs and seven RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Angels: 5-5, .196 batting average, 3.54 ERA, outscored by three runs<\/p>\n

Braves: 5-5, .241 batting average, 2.56 ERA, outscored opponents by 17 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Angels: Mike Trout: day-to-day (hand), Ryan Johnson<\/a>: 15-Day IL (illness), 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

Braves: AJ Smith-Shawver: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ha-Seong Kim: 10-Day IL (finger), Spencer Strider: 15-Day IL (oblique), Danny Young<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Daysbel Hernandez: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Sean Murphy<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hip), Hurston Waldrep<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Spencer Schwellenbach<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Joe Jimenez<\/a>: 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 and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atlanta Braves (6-5, fourth in the NL East) vs. Los Angeles Angels (6-5, second in the AL West)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[291,9394,46,5,942,1563,5931,75686,582,38015,10367,99,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,19,3617,4,4953,5171,9393,7274,656,659,809,2052],"class_list":{"0":"post-668014","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-atlanta-braves","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-ben-joyce","13":"tag-danny-young","14":"tag-drake-baldwin","15":"tag-event_preview","16":"tag-grayson-rodriguez","17":"tag-hurston-waldrep","18":"tag-joe-jimenez","19":"tag-kirby-yates","20":"tag-la","21":"tag-la-angels","22":"tag-laangels","23":"tag-los-angeles","24":"tag-los-angeles-angels","25":"tag-losangeles","26":"tag-losangelesangels","27":"tag-major-league-baseball","28":"tag-mauricio-dubon","29":"tag-mlb","30":"tag-nolan-schanuel","31":"tag-reynaldo-lopez","32":"tag-robert-stephenson","33":"tag-ryan-johnson","34":"tag-sean-murphy","35":"tag-spencer-schwellenbach","36":"tag-yusei-kikuchi","37":"tag-zach-neto"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116362582894111677","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668014","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=668014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668014\/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=668014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}