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Los Angeles Angels<\/a> (9-10, third in the AL West) vs. New York Yankees<\/a> (10-8, second in the AL East)<\/p>\n

New York; Thursday, 1:35 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Angels: TBD; Yankees: Max Fried<\/a> (2-0, 1.93 ERA, 0.75 WHIP, 20 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Yankees -267, Angels +216; over\/under is 9 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The New York Yankees play the Los Angeles Angels with a 2-1 series lead.<\/p>\n

New York has a 5-4 record in home games and a 10-8 record overall. The Yankees have a 5-1 record in games when they record at least eight hits.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles has a 6-7 record in road games and a 9-10 record overall. The Angels lead the AL with 29 total home runs, averaging 1.5 per game.<\/p>\n

Thursday’s game is the fourth meeting between these teams this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Cody Bellinger<\/a> has two doubles, a triple, a home run and six RBIs for the Yankees. Aaron Judge<\/a> is 9 for 37 with two doubles and four home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Mike Trout<\/a> has three doubles and six home runs while hitting .239 for the Angels. Jorge Soler<\/a> is 11 for 35 with two doubles and four home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Yankees: 3-7, .199 batting average, 4.49 ERA, outscored by nine runs<\/p>\n

Angels: 5-5, .250 batting average, 5.35 ERA, outscored opponents by five runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Yankees: Gerrit Cole: 15-Day IL (elbow), Carlos Rodon<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Clarke Schmidt<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Anthony Volpe<\/a>: 10-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n

Angels: Ryan Johnson: 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 (9-10, third in the AL West) vs. New York Yankees (10-8, second in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[106,291,9394,1205,5,942,2004,1216,1365,75686,582,3509,99,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,19,108,603,4,62,9393],"class_list":{"0":"post-676864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-angels","8":"tag-aaron-judge","9":"tag-angels","10":"tag-anthony-rendon","11":"tag-anthony-volpe","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-ben-joyce","14":"tag-carlos-rodon","15":"tag-clarke-schmidt","16":"tag-cody-bellinger","17":"tag-event_preview","18":"tag-grayson-rodriguez","19":"tag-jorge-soler","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-max-fried","30":"tag-mike-trout","31":"tag-mlb","32":"tag-new-york-yankees","33":"tag-robert-stephenson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116414133266051534","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676864","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=676864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676864\/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=676864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}