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Atlanta Braves<\/a> (7-5, second in the NL East) vs. Los Angeles Angels<\/a> (6-6, third in the AL West)<\/p>\n

Anaheim, California; Wednesday, 4:07 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Braves: Grant Holmes<\/a> (0-1, 2.45 ERA, 1.00 WHIP, eight strikeouts); Angels: Reid Detmers<\/a> (0-0, 2.38 ERA, 1.15 WHIP, 13 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Braves -127, Angels +107; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Los Angeles Angels and Atlanta Braves meet on Wednesday with the winner claiming the three-game series.<\/p>\n

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

Atlanta is 7-5 overall and 3-3 on the road. The Braves have the best team ERA in the NL at 2.12.<\/p>\n

The matchup Wednesday is the third meeting between these teams this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Zach Neto<\/a> leads the Angels with four home runs while slugging .521. Nolan Schanuel<\/a> is 10 for 41 with two home runs and seven RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Drake Baldwin<\/a> leads the Braves with five home runs while slugging .653. Mauricio Dubon<\/a> is 13 for 36 with two doubles, two home runs and five RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Angels: 4-6, .182 batting average, 4.04 ERA, outscored by 12 runs<\/p>\n

Braves: 5-5, .246 batting average, 2.35 ERA, outscored opponents by 18 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Angels: Ryan Johnson: 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 (7-5, second in the NL East) vs. Los Angeles Angels (6-6, third 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":[291,9394,46,5,942,1563,5931,75686,640,582,38015,10367,99,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,19,3617,4,4953,3923,9393,656,659,2052],"class_list":{"0":"post-670111","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-grant-holmes","17":"tag-grayson-rodriguez","18":"tag-hurston-waldrep","19":"tag-joe-jimenez","20":"tag-kirby-yates","21":"tag-la","22":"tag-la-angels","23":"tag-laangels","24":"tag-los-angeles","25":"tag-los-angeles-angels","26":"tag-losangeles","27":"tag-losangelesangels","28":"tag-major-league-baseball","29":"tag-mauricio-dubon","30":"tag-mlb","31":"tag-nolan-schanuel","32":"tag-reid-detmers","33":"tag-robert-stephenson","34":"tag-sean-murphy","35":"tag-spencer-schwellenbach","36":"tag-zach-neto"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116368827026874874","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670111","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=670111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670111\/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=670111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}