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Los Angeles Angels<\/a> (38-57, fifth in the AL West) vs. Minnesota Twins<\/a> (46-49, third in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

Minneapolis; Saturday, 2:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Angels: Ryan Johnson<\/a> (1-4, 6.99 ERA, 1.55 WHIP, 24 strikeouts); Twins: Joe Ryan<\/a> (6-5, 3.36 ERA, 1.04 WHIP, 122 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Twins -162, Angels +133; over\/under is 9 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Los Angeles Angels meet the Minnesota Twins with a 1-0 series lead.<\/p>\n

Minnesota has a 24-25 record in home games and a 46-49 record overall. The Twins have the seventh-best team slugging percentage in MLB<\/a> play at .414.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles has a 38-57 record overall and a 17-32 record in road games. Angels hitters have a collective .315 on-base percentage, the ninth-ranked percentage in the AL.<\/p>\n

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

TOP PERFORMERS:<\/p>\n

Zach Neto<\/a> leads the Angels with 19 home runs while slugging .459. Jo Adell<\/a> is 9 for 35 with two home runs and eight RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Twins: 6-4, .246 batting average, 3.68 ERA, outscored opponents by 12 runs<\/p>\n

Angels: 2-8, .243 batting average, 5.18 ERA, outscored by 15 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Twins: Mick Abel<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Garrett Acton: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Connor Prielipp: 15-Day IL (finger), Marco Raya: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Byron Buxton<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hip), Anthony Banda<\/a>: 15-Day IL (lat), Cole Sands<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), David Festa<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Pablo Lopez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Angels: Ben Joyce<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Travis d’Arnaud: 60-Day IL (foot), Gustavo Campero<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Adam Frazier<\/a>: 10-Day IL (elbow), Grayson Rodriguez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (back), 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

___<\/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 (38-57, fifth in the AL West) vs. Minnesota Twins (46-49, third in the AL Central)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[8007,291,8934,9394,5,942,2223,9707,3916,75686,582,1337,758,2179,1455,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,19,5158,60,4,1997,9393,7274,45847,809,2052],"class_list":["post-748792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-angels","tag-adam-frazier","tag-angels","tag-anthony-banda","tag-anthony-rendon","tag-baseball","tag-ben-joyce","tag-byron-buxton","tag-cole-sands","tag-david-festa","tag-event_preview","tag-grayson-rodriguez","tag-gustavo-campero","tag-jack-kochanowicz","tag-jo-adell","tag-joe-ryan","tag-la","tag-la-angels","tag-laangels","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesangels","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mick-abel","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-mlb","tag-pablo-lopez","tag-robert-stephenson","tag-ryan-johnson","tag-sebastian-rivero","tag-yusei-kikuchi","tag-zach-neto"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116900647623693401","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748792","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=748792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748792\/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=748792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}