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Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> (40-25, first in the AL East) vs. Los Angeles Angels<\/a> (27-42, fifth in the AL West)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Rays: Shane McClanahan<\/a> (6-3, 2.85 ERA, 1.10 WHIP, 59 strikeouts); Angels: Samuel Aldegheri (1-1, 2.25 ERA, 1.33 WHIP, eight strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Rays -178, Angels +148; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Tampa Bay Rays take on the Los Angeles Angels after Nick Fortes<\/a>‘ four-hit game on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles has a 27-42 record overall and a 15-19 record in home games. The Angels have hit 79 total home runs to rank seventh in the AL.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay has a 40-25 record overall and a 16-16 record on the road. The Rays have the highest team batting average in the AL at .258.<\/p>\n

The teams play Friday for the fourth time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Mike Trout<\/a> has 10 doubles, 15 home runs and 32 RBIs for the Angels. Zach Neto<\/a> is 9 for 39 with two doubles, three home runs and seven RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Yandy Diaz<\/a> has 11 doubles, a triple and 12 home runs for the Rays. Junior Caminero<\/a> is 11 for 36 with three doubles, a home run and two RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Angels: 4-6, .252 batting average, 4.15 ERA, outscored opponents by six runs<\/p>\n

Rays: 5-5, .244 batting average, 4.40 ERA, outscored by four runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Angels: Yoan Moncada: 60-Day IL (knee), Jack Kochanowicz<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Nolan Schanuel<\/a>: day-to-day (calf), Sebastian Rivero<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Adam Frazier<\/a>: 10-Day IL (elbow), Vaughn Grissom: 10-Day IL (side), Gustavo Campero<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Jorge Soler<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hip), Travis d’Arnaud: 60-Day IL (foot), Robert Stephenson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ben Joyce<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Yusei Kikuchi<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Anthony Rendon<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip)<\/p>\n

Rays: Jesse Scholtens<\/a>: 15-Day IL (wrist), Michael Grove<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jon Heasley: 60-Day IL (elbow), Craig Kimbrel<\/a>: 15-Day IL (wrist), Manuel Rodriguez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jonny Deluca: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Steven Wilson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (back), Gavin Lux: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jake Fraley<\/a>: 10-Day IL (groin), Ryan Pepiot<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip), Edwin Uceta<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/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":"Tampa Bay Rays (40-25, first in the AL East) vs. Los Angeles Angels (27-42, fifth in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[8007,9394,5,942,847,6925,75686,1337,758,1180,4158,3509,4682,56,19,1095,7908,603,4,2145,4953,297,9393,1956,45847,5720,4274,2550,68,2551,2549,3348,809,2052],"class_list":["post-723858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa-bay-rays","tag-adam-frazier","tag-anthony-rendon","tag-baseball","tag-ben-joyce","tag-craig-kimbrel","tag-edwin-uceta","tag-event_preview","tag-gustavo-campero","tag-jack-kochanowicz","tag-jake-fraley","tag-jesse-scholtens","tag-jorge-soler","tag-junior-caminero","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-manuel-rodriguez","tag-michael-grove","tag-mike-trout","tag-mlb","tag-nick-fortes","tag-nolan-schanuel","tag-rays","tag-robert-stephenson","tag-ryan-pepiot","tag-sebastian-rivero","tag-shane-mcclanahan","tag-steven-wilson","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabayrays","tag-yandy-diaz","tag-yusei-kikuchi","tag-zach-neto"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723858","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=723858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}