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Los Angeles Angels<\/a> (50-77, fourth in the AL West) vs. Houston Astros<\/a> (64-63, first in the AL West)<\/p>\n

Houston; Thursday, 8:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Angels: Grayson Rodriguez<\/a> (3-5, 7.17 ERA, 1.59 WHIP, 55 strikeouts); Astros: Peter Lambert<\/a> (8-6, 3.11 ERA, 1.15 WHIP, 117 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Astros -192, Angels +159; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Houston Astros and Los Angeles Angels meet on Thursday with the winner claiming the three-game series.<\/p>\n

Houston has a 32-32 record in home games and a 64-63 record overall. Astros hitters have a collective .411 slugging percentage to rank sixth in MLB<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles has a 50-77 record overall and a 21-41 record in road games. The Angels have a 20-8 record in games when they hit two or more home runs.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Thursday for the 13th time this season. The Astros lead the season series 7-5.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Christian Walker has 24 doubles, a triple and 23 home runs for the Astros. Cam Smith<\/a> is 10 for 34 with a triple and four home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Zach Neto<\/a> leads the Angels with 20 home runs while slugging .409. Josh Lowe<\/a> is 7 for 29 with two home runs and four RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Astros: 4-6, .185 batting average, 4.15 ERA, outscored by nine runs<\/p>\n

Angels: 5-5, .220 batting average, 3.03 ERA, outscored by three runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Astros: Mike Burrows: 15-Day IL (elbow), Jeremy Pena<\/a>: day-to-day (hand), Brice Matthews: 60-Day IL (knee), Carlos Correa<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ankle), Brandon Walter<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Angels: Yoan Moncada: 60-Day IL (knee), Sebastian Rivero<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hand), Yusei Kikuchi<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Shaun Anderson<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Sam Bachman<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Jack Kochanowicz<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Robert Stephenson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), 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 (50-77, fourth in the AL West) vs. Houston Astros (64-63, first in the AL West)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[291,9394,5,13576,451,3225,75686,582,54,758,5828,1397,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,19,4,10195,9393,3510,45847,7633,809,2052],"class_list":["post-783612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-angels","tag-angels","tag-anthony-rendon","tag-baseball","tag-brandon-walter","tag-cam-smith","tag-carlos-correa","tag-event_preview","tag-grayson-rodriguez","tag-houston-astros","tag-jack-kochanowicz","tag-jeremy-pena","tag-josh-lowe","tag-la","tag-la-angels","tag-laangels","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesangels","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-peter-lambert","tag-robert-stephenson","tag-sam-bachman","tag-sebastian-rivero","tag-shaun-anderson","tag-yusei-kikuchi","tag-zach-neto"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117127316981787691","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783612","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=783612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}