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Los Angeles Angels<\/a> (51-77, fourth in the AL West) vs. Texas Rangers<\/a> (63-65, second in the AL West)<\/p>\n

Arlington, Texas; Friday, 8:15 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Angels: Reid Detmers<\/a> (4-8, 3.78 ERA, 1.06 WHIP, 167 strikeouts); Rangers: MacKenzie Gore (7-9, 4.45 ERA, 1.26 WHIP, 154 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Rangers -149, Angels +125; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Los Angeles Angels take on the Texas Rangers after Zach Neto’s<\/a> five-hit game on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Texas has a 63-65 record overall and a 34-28 record at home. The Rangers have the ninth-ranked team on-base percentage in the AL at .315.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles has a 22-41 record in road games and a 51-77 record overall. The Angels have a 25-57 record in games when they have allowed at least one home run.<\/p>\n

The teams play Friday for the 11th time this season. The Angels are up 7-3 in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Joc Pederson<\/a> ranks fourth on the Rangers with 35 extra base hits (11 doubles, two triples and 22 home runs). Corey Seager<\/a> is 12 for 37 with three doubles, two home runs and three RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Nolan Schanuel<\/a> has 22 doubles and seven home runs for the Angels. Josh Lowe<\/a> is 9 for 32 with a double and two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rangers: 4-6, .212 batting average, 3.87 ERA, outscored by 13 runs<\/p>\n

Angels: 6-4, .248 batting average, 2.10 ERA, outscored opponents by 21 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Rangers: Kyle Higashioka: 10-Day IL (flexor tendon), Josh Jung<\/a>: 10-Day IL (calf), Carter Baumler<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ribs), Michael Helman<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hand), Robert Garcia<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Nathan Eovaldi: 15-Day IL (elbow), Jack Leiter<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ankle), Jose Corniell<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Jalen Beeks: 60-Day IL (back)<\/p>\n

Angels: Wade Meckler: day-to-day (head), Nolan Schanuel: day-to-day (side), Yusei Kikuchi<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Sam Bachman<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Samy Natera<\/a> Jr.: 15-Day IL (back), Yoan Moncada: 60-Day IL (knee), Sebastian Rivero<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hand), Shaun Anderson<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), 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 (51-77, fourth in the AL West) vs. Texas Rangers (63-65, second in the AL West)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[9394,5,63677,384,75686,758,721,13,49931,395,1397,56,19,10942,4,4953,149,3923,13188,9393,3510,93881,45847,7633,1567,69,3240,809,2052],"class_list":["post-784461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas-rangers","tag-anthony-rendon","tag-baseball","tag-carter-baumler","tag-corey-seager","tag-event_preview","tag-jack-kochanowicz","tag-jack-leiter","tag-joc-pederson","tag-jose-corniell","tag-josh-jung","tag-josh-lowe","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-michael-helman","tag-mlb","tag-nolan-schanuel","tag-rangers","tag-reid-detmers","tag-robert-garcia","tag-robert-stephenson","tag-sam-bachman","tag-samy-natera-jr","tag-sebastian-rivero","tag-shaun-anderson","tag-texas","tag-texas-rangers","tag-texasrangers","tag-yusei-kikuchi","tag-zach-neto"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117133003001260210","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784461","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=784461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784461\/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=784461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}