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St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> (51-47, third in the NL Central) vs. Los Angeles Angels<\/a> (39-61, fifth in the AL West)<\/p>\n

Anaheim, California; Monday, 10:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Cardinals: Kyle Leahy<\/a> (7-4, 3.73 ERA, 1.41 WHIP, 75 strikeouts); Angels: Jose Soriano<\/a> (8-6, 3.57 ERA, 1.29 WHIP, 115 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Angels -122, Cardinals +100; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Los Angeles Angels host the St. Louis Cardinals to open a three-game series.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles is 39-61 overall and 22-27 in home games. The Angels have gone 18-8 in games when they hit at least two home runs.<\/p>\n

St. Louis is 51-47 overall and 25-21 in road games. The Cardinals are 36-16 in games when they record eight or more hits.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Monday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Nolan Schanuel<\/a> leads the Angels with a .279 batting average, and has 17 doubles, six home runs, 28 walks and 35 RBIs. Zach Neto<\/a> is 13 for 41 with a home run and three RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jordan Walker<\/a> leads the Cardinals with 22 home runs while slugging .524. Jimmy Crooks III is 4 for 12 with two home runs and two RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Angels: 3-7, .264 batting average, 4.49 ERA, outscored by six runs<\/p>\n

Cardinals: 4-6, .201 batting average, 4.34 ERA, outscored by eight runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Angels: Adam Frazier<\/a>: 10-Day IL (elbow), Yusei Kikuchi<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Ben Joyce<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), 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), Anthony Rendon<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip)<\/p>\n

Cardinals: JoJo Romero<\/a>: 15-Day IL (appendix), Max Rajcic<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ramon Urias: 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":"St. Louis Cardinals (51-47, third in the NL Central) vs. Los Angeles Angels (39-61, fifth in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[8007,291,9394,5,942,75686,758,8534,4679,3508,4396,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,19,74862,4,4953,9393,45847,67,809,2052],"class_list":["post-756667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-angels","tag-adam-frazier","tag-angels","tag-anthony-rendon","tag-baseball","tag-ben-joyce","tag-event_preview","tag-jack-kochanowicz","tag-jojo-romero","tag-jordan-walker","tag-jose-soriano","tag-kyle-leahy","tag-la","tag-la-angels","tag-laangels","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesangels","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-max-rajcic","tag-mlb","tag-nolan-schanuel","tag-robert-stephenson","tag-sebastian-rivero","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-yusei-kikuchi","tag-zach-neto"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116951820749840029","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756667","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=756667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}