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New York Mets<\/a> (10-21, fifth in the NL East) vs. Los Angeles Angels<\/a> (12-20, fifth in the AL West)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Mets: Christian Scott (0-0, 6.75 ERA, 3.75 WHIP, one strikeout); Angels: Walbert Urena (0-3, 4.76 ERA, 2.21 WHIP, 13 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Mets -125, Angels +106; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The New York Mets will aim to break their six-game road slide in a matchup against the Los Angeles Angels.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles has a 5-7 record at home and a 12-20 record overall. The Angels have hit 42 total home runs to rank second in the AL.<\/p>\n

New York is 10-21 overall and 4-9 in road games. The Mets have a 6-1 record in games when they scored five or more runs.<\/p>\n

The matchup Friday is the first meeting this season between the two clubs.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Mike Trout<\/a> has five doubles and 10 home runs for the Angels. Vaughn Grissom<\/a> is 10 for 28 with four doubles, a home run and five RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Bo Bichette<\/a> has five doubles and two home runs while hitting .230 for the Mets. Juan Soto<\/a> is 9 for 27 with two doubles and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Angels: 1-9, .250 batting average, 5.74 ERA, outscored by 23 runs<\/p>\n

Mets: 3-7, .223 batting average, 4.09 ERA, outscored by 11 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Angels: Yusei Kikuchi: day-to-day (shoulder), Kirby Yates<\/a>: 15-Day IL (knee), Ben Joyce<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Ryan Johnson<\/a>: 15-Day IL (illness), Logan O’Hoppe: 10-Day IL (wrist), Robert Stephenson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Grayson Rodriguez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (arm), Anthony Rendon<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip), Alek Manoah: 15-Day IL (finger)<\/p>\n

Mets: Luis Robert: 10-Day IL (back), Jorge Polanco<\/a>: 10-Day IL (wrist), Kodai Senga<\/a>: 15-Day IL (spinal lumbar ), Jared Young<\/a>: 10-Day IL (knee), Francisco Lindor: 10-Day IL (calf), Reed Garrett: 60-Day IL (elbow), Joey Gerber: 15-Day IL (finger), A.J. Minter: 15-Day IL (lat), Justin Hagenman<\/a>: 60-Day IL (rib), Tylor Megill: 60-Day IL (elbow), Dedniel Nunez: 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":"New York Mets (10-21, fifth in the NL East) vs. Los Angeles Angels (12-20, fifth in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[9394,5,942,88,75686,582,15622,120,134,25115,99,1716,56,19,101,603,4,1690,61,2548,4203,9393,7274,1229],"class_list":["post-687396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-new-york-mets","tag-anthony-rendon","tag-baseball","tag-ben-joyce","tag-bo-bichette","tag-event_preview","tag-grayson-rodriguez","tag-jared-young","tag-jorge-polanco","tag-juan-soto","tag-justin-hagenman","tag-kirby-yates","tag-kodai-senga","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mets","tag-mike-trout","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mets","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkmets","tag-robert-stephenson","tag-ryan-johnson","tag-vaughn-grissom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116498411274703641","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687396","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=687396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}