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Los Angeles Angels<\/a> (7-8, third in the AL West) vs. Cincinnati Reds<\/a> (9-6, second in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

Cincinnati; Sunday, 1:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Angels: Jose Soriano<\/a> (3-0, 0.45 ERA, 0.65 WHIP, 21 strikeouts); Reds: Andrew Abbott<\/a> (0-1, 3.18 ERA, 1.41 WHIP, 11 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Reds -110, Angels -109; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Cincinnati Reds and Los Angeles Angels play on Sunday with the winner claiming the three-game series.<\/p>\n

Cincinnati is 9-6 overall and 4-4 in home games. The Reds have a 6-0 record in games when they out-hit their opponents.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles has a 7-8 record overall and a 4-5 record on the road. The Angels have hit 18 total home runs to lead the AL.<\/p>\n

Sunday’s game is the third time these teams square off this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Sal Stewart<\/a> has four doubles and four home runs for the Reds. Elly De La Cruz<\/a> is 12 for 39 with three doubles, two home runs and five RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Zach Neto<\/a> has three doubles, five home runs and eight RBIs for the Angels. Jorge Soler<\/a> is 8 for 34 with a double, three home runs and 10 RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Reds: 6-4, .215 batting average, 3.94 ERA, outscored by nine runs<\/p>\n

Angels: 5-5, .191 batting average, 3.76 ERA, outscored by five runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Reds: Jose Trevino: 10-Day IL (back), Caleb Ferguson: 15-Day IL (oblique), Hunter Greene<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Nick Lodolo: 15-Day IL (finger)<\/p>\n

Angels: George Klassen<\/a>: day-to-day (finger), Ryan Johnson<\/a>: 15-Day IL (illness), Kirby Yates<\/a>: 15-Day IL (knee), Robert Stephenson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), 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

___<\/p>\n

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 (7-8, third in the AL West) vs. Cincinnati Reds (9-6, second in the NL Central)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2400],"tags":[2001,9394,5,942,535,50,4259,1177,75686,32138,582,2102,3509,3508,99,56,19,4,536,9393,7274,6513,2052],"class_list":{"0":"post-673959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-reds","8":"tag-andrew-abbott","9":"tag-anthony-rendon","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-ben-joyce","12":"tag-cincinnati","13":"tag-cincinnati-reds","14":"tag-cincinnatireds","15":"tag-elly-de-la-cruz","16":"tag-event_preview","17":"tag-george-klassen","18":"tag-grayson-rodriguez","19":"tag-hunter-greene","20":"tag-jorge-soler","21":"tag-jose-soriano","22":"tag-kirby-yates","23":"tag-los-angeles-angels","24":"tag-major-league-baseball","25":"tag-mlb","26":"tag-reds","27":"tag-robert-stephenson","28":"tag-ryan-johnson","29":"tag-sal-stewart","30":"tag-zach-neto"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116390909952844958","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673959","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=673959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673959\/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=673959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}