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Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> (8-13, fifth in the AL East) vs. Los Angeles Angels<\/a> (11-12, third in the AL West)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Blue Jays: Dylan Cease (0-0, 1.74 ERA, 1.26 WHIP, 32 strikeouts); Angels: Reid Detmers<\/a> (1-1, 3.57 ERA, 1.06 WHIP, 26 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Blue Jays -126, Angels +105; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Los Angeles Angels open a three-game series at home against the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles has a 4-5 record at home and an 11-12 record overall. Angels pitchers have a collective 3.99 ERA, which ranks sixth in the AL.<\/p>\n

Toronto has an 8-13 record overall and a 2-7 record in road games. Blue Jays hitters are batting a collective .252, the eighth-best team batting average in MLB<\/a> play.<\/p>\n

Monday’s game is the first time these teams meet this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Jo Adell<\/a> leads the Angels with a .280 batting average, and has two doubles, three home runs, three walks and 14 RBIs. Jorge Soler<\/a> is 11 for 36 with four home runs and 12 RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Kazuma Okamoto<\/a> leads the Blue Jays with three home runs while slugging .364. Vladimir Guerrero Jr.<\/a> is 17 for 40 with five doubles and six RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Angels: 5-5, .253 batting average, 4.24 ERA, outscored opponents by 22 runs<\/p>\n

Blue Jays: 4-6, .280 batting average, 4.55 ERA, outscored by three runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Angels: Kirby Yates<\/a>: 15-Day IL (knee), Grayson Rodriguez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (arm), Ben Joyce<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Alek Manoah: 15-Day IL (finger), Ryan Johnson<\/a>: 15-Day IL (illness), Robert Stephenson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Anthony Rendon<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip)<\/p>\n

Blue Jays: Daulton Varsho: day-to-day (knee), Trey Yesavage: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Alejandro Kirk<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Lazaro Estrada: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Yimi Garcia<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Shane Bieber: 60-Day IL (elbow), George Springer: 10-Day IL (toe), Addison Barger<\/a>: 10-Day IL (ankle), Cody Ponce: 60-Day IL (knee), Anthony Santander<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jose Berrios<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Bowden Francis: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/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":"Toronto Blue Jays (8-13, fifth in the AL East) vs. Los Angeles Angels (11-12, third 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":[6081,3426,291,9394,383,5,942,75686,582,2179,3509,387,3685,99,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,19,4,3923,9393,7274,70,93,2077],"class_list":{"0":"post-679684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-angels","8":"tag-addison-barger","9":"tag-alejandro-kirk","10":"tag-angels","11":"tag-anthony-rendon","12":"tag-anthony-santander","13":"tag-baseball","14":"tag-ben-joyce","15":"tag-event_preview","16":"tag-grayson-rodriguez","17":"tag-jo-adell","18":"tag-jorge-soler","19":"tag-jose-berrios","20":"tag-kazuma-okamoto","21":"tag-kirby-yates","22":"tag-la","23":"tag-la-angels","24":"tag-laangels","25":"tag-los-angeles","26":"tag-los-angeles-angels","27":"tag-losangeles","28":"tag-losangelesangels","29":"tag-major-league-baseball","30":"tag-mlb","31":"tag-reid-detmers","32":"tag-robert-stephenson","33":"tag-ryan-johnson","34":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","35":"tag-vladimir-guerrero-jr","36":"tag-yimi-garcia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116436429412944978","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679684","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=679684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679684\/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=679684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}