{"id":743634,"date":"2026-07-05T09:27:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T09:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/743634\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T09:27:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T09:27:18","slug":"angels-head-into-matchup-with-the-red-sox-on-losing-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/743634\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels head into matchup with the Red Sox on losing streak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boston Red Sox<\/a> (39-48, fifth in the AL East) vs. Los Angeles Angels<\/a> (36-54, fifth in the AL West)<\/p>\n

Anaheim, California; Sunday, 9:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Red Sox: Ranger Suarez<\/a> (4-3, 2.94 ERA, 1.13 WHIP, 92 strikeouts); Angels: Ryan Johnson<\/a> (1-3, 7.40 ERA, 1.52 WHIP, 18 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Red Sox -164, Angels +134; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Los Angeles Angels play the Boston Red Sox as losers of five straight games.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles has a 36-54 record overall and a 21-24 record at home. The Angels have the 10th-ranked team slugging percentage in the AL at .391.<\/p>\n

Boston is 22-21 on the road and 39-48 overall. The Red Sox have an 18-35 record in games when they have allowed at least one home run.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Sunday for the third time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Nolan Schanuel<\/a> has 14 doubles and six home runs for the Angels. Josh Lowe<\/a> is 10 for 27 with two doubles and two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Willson Contreras<\/a> has a .285 batting average to lead the Red Sox, and has 15 doubles, two triples and 19 home runs. Ceddanne Rafaela<\/a> is 13 for 42 with three RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Angels: 4-6, .218 batting average, 4.50 ERA, outscored by 15 runs<\/p>\n

Red Sox: 7-3, .244 batting average, 3.30 ERA, outscored opponents by eight runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Angels: Logan O’Hoppe: day-to-day (head), Adam Frazier<\/a>: 10-Day IL (elbow), Grayson Rodriguez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (back), Ben Joyce<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Travis d’Arnaud: 60-Day IL (foot), Mike Trout: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Gustavo Campero<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), 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), Yusei Kikuchi<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Anthony Rendon<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip)<\/p>\n

Red Sox: Kutter Crawford: 60-Day IL (wrist), Johan Oviedo<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Triston Casas<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Nick Sogard: 10-Day IL (oblique), Connelly Early: 15-Day IL (elbow), Trevor Story: 60-Day IL (abdomen), Isiah Kiner-Falefa: 10-Day IL (forearm), Roman Anthony<\/a>: 60-Day IL (wrist), Marcelo Mayer<\/a>: 10-Day IL (forearm), Garrett Crochet: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Patrick Sandoval: 60-Day IL (elbow), Tanner Houck: 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":"Boston Red Sox (39-48, fifth in the AL East) vs. Los Angeles Angels (36-54, fifth in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[8007,9394,5,942,141,48,2542,1396,75686,582,1337,758,5416,1397,56,19,1248,4,4953,90,89,2543,9393,793,7274,45847,1946,409,809],"class_list":["post-743634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boston-red-sox","tag-adam-frazier","tag-anthony-rendon","tag-baseball","tag-ben-joyce","tag-boston","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-bostonredsox","tag-ceddanne-rafaela","tag-event_preview","tag-grayson-rodriguez","tag-gustavo-campero","tag-jack-kochanowicz","tag-johan-oviedo","tag-josh-lowe","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-marcelo-mayer","tag-mlb","tag-nolan-schanuel","tag-ranger-suarez","tag-red-sox","tag-redsox","tag-robert-stephenson","tag-roman-anthony","tag-ryan-johnson","tag-sebastian-rivero","tag-triston-casas","tag-willson-contreras","tag-yusei-kikuchi"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116866662003069784","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743634","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=743634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}