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New York Mets<\/a> (11-21, fifth in the NL East) vs. Los Angeles Angels<\/a> (12-21, fifth in the AL West)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Mets: Nolan McLean<\/a> (1-2, 2.55 ERA, 0.85 WHIP, 45 strikeouts); Angels: Reid Detmers<\/a> (1-2, 4.28 ERA, 1.10 WHIP, 36 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Mets -124, Angels +104; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Los Angeles Angels come into a matchup against the New York Mets after losing seven straight games.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles has a 5-8 record in home games and a 12-21 record overall. The Angels are 8-4 in games when they hit two or more home runs.<\/p>\n

New York has an 11-21 record overall and a 5-9 record in road games. The Mets have a 5-12 record in games when they have given up a home run.<\/p>\n

The teams match up Saturday for the second time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Mike Trout<\/a> has five doubles and 10 home runs for the Angels. Nolan Schanuel<\/a> is 10 for 35 with four doubles, a home run and six RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Juan Soto<\/a> has four doubles, three home runs and eight RBIs while hitting .344 for the Mets. Bo Bichette<\/a> is 11 for 38 with two doubles and a home run over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Angels: 1-9, .250 batting average, 6.05 ERA, outscored by 23 runs<\/p>\n

Mets: 4-6, .229 batting average, 4.20 ERA, outscored by nine runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Angels: Robert Stephenson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Alek Manoah: 15-Day IL (finger), Yusei Kikuchi<\/a>: 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), Grayson Rodriguez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (arm), Anthony Rendon<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip)<\/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 (11-21, fifth in the NL East) vs. Los Angeles Angels (12-21, fifth in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[291,9394,5,942,88,75686,582,15622,120,134,25115,99,1716,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,19,603,4,61,2517,4953,3923,9393,7274,809],"class_list":["post-688272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-los-angeles-angels","tag-angels","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-la","tag-la-angels","tag-laangels","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesangels","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mike-trout","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-mets","tag-nolan-mclean","tag-nolan-schanuel","tag-reid-detmers","tag-robert-stephenson","tag-ryan-johnson","tag-yusei-kikuchi"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116504191580389102","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688272","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=688272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}