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Los Angeles Angels<\/a> (30-46, fifth in the AL West) vs. Athletics<\/a> (37-38, second in the AL West)<\/p>\n

West Sacramento, California; Friday, 9:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Angels: Jose Soriano<\/a> (8-4, 2.79 ERA, 1.23 WHIP, 92 strikeouts); Athletics: Jeffrey Springs (3-7, 5.13 ERA, 1.32 WHIP, 68 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Athletics -169, Angels +139; over\/under is 10 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Athletics lead 1-0 in a four-game series with the Los Angeles Angels.<\/p>\n

The Athletics have a 37-38 record overall and a 17-21 record at home. The Athletics have gone 15-7 in games when they did not give up a home run.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles is 30-46 overall and 13-26 on the road. The Angels have a 21-9 record in games when they scored at least five runs.<\/p>\n

Friday’s game is the sixth time these teams match up this season. The Athletics have a 4-1 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Shea Langeliers<\/a> has 15 doubles, 19 home runs and 39 RBIs while hitting .276 for the Athletics. Nick Kurtz<\/a> is 15 for 40 with two doubles and six home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Athletics: 6-4, .292 batting average, 6.77 ERA, outscored by three runs<\/p>\n

Angels: 5-5, .265 batting average, 3.24 ERA, outscored opponents by seven runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Athletics: Luis Severino<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Brooks Kriske: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Brent Rooker: 10-Day IL (knee), Denzel Clarke<\/a>: 60-Day IL (foot), Gunnar Hoglund: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n

Angels: Adam Frazier<\/a>: 10-Day IL (elbow), Mike Trout: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Gustavo Campero<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Grayson Rodriguez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (back), Jorge Soler<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hip), Travis d’Arnaud: 60-Day IL (foot), Sebastian Rivero<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Yoan Moncada: 60-Day IL (knee), Jack Kochanowicz<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), 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

___<\/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 (30-46, fifth in the AL West) vs. Athletics (37-38, second in the AL West) West…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[8007,9394,537,5,942,75686,582,1337,758,3509,3508,56,19,4,3226,9393,45847,809],"class_list":["post-729908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-athletics","tag-adam-frazier","tag-anthony-rendon","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-ben-joyce","tag-event_preview","tag-grayson-rodriguez","tag-gustavo-campero","tag-jack-kochanowicz","tag-jorge-soler","tag-jose-soriano","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-athletics","tag-robert-stephenson","tag-sebastian-rivero","tag-yusei-kikuchi"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116775982398239793","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729908","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=729908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729908\/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=729908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}