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Los Angeles Angels<\/a> (51-78, fourth in the AL West) vs. Texas Rangers<\/a> (64-65, second in the AL West)<\/p>\n

Arlington, Texas; Saturday, 7:05 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Angels: Ryan Johnson<\/a> (2-7, 6.41 ERA, 1.54 WHIP, 47 strikeouts); Rangers: Cody Bradford<\/a> (0-1, 2.93 ERA, 1.44 WHIP, 10 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Rangers -140, Angels +123; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Texas Rangers play the Los Angeles Angels after Ezequiel Duran<\/a> had four hits against the Angels on Friday.<\/p>\n

Texas is 35-28 in home games and 64-65 overall. The Rangers have a 26-12 record in games when they hit two or more home runs.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles has a 51-78 record overall and a 22-42 record on the road. The Angels are 31-14 in games when they scored at least five runs.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s game is the 12th time these teams square off this season. The Angels are ahead 7-4 in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Jake Burger<\/a> has 18 doubles and 21 home runs for the Rangers. Corey Seager<\/a> is 14 for 38 with three doubles and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Mike Trout<\/a> has 17 doubles, 20 home runs and 45 RBIs for the Angels. Josh Lowe<\/a> is 9 for 32 with a double, two home runs and four RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rangers: 4-6, .220 batting average, 3.77 ERA, outscored by 15 runs<\/p>\n

Angels: 6-4, .242 batting average, 1.82 ERA, outscored opponents by 23 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Rangers: Robert Garcia<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Kyle Higashioka<\/a>: 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), 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<\/a>: 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 (51-78, fourth in the AL West) vs. Texas Rangers (64-65, 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":[9394,5,63677,9391,384,75686,18086,758,721,400,49931,395,1397,9390,56,19,10942,603,4,4953,149,13188,9393,7274,3510,93881,45847,7633,1567,69,3240,809],"class_list":["post-785420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas-rangers","tag-anthony-rendon","tag-baseball","tag-carter-baumler","tag-cody-bradford","tag-corey-seager","tag-event_preview","tag-ezequiel-duran","tag-jack-kochanowicz","tag-jack-leiter","tag-jake-burger","tag-jose-corniell","tag-josh-jung","tag-josh-lowe","tag-kyle-higashioka","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-michael-helman","tag-mike-trout","tag-mlb","tag-nolan-schanuel","tag-rangers","tag-robert-garcia","tag-robert-stephenson","tag-ryan-johnson","tag-sam-bachman","tag-samy-natera-jr","tag-sebastian-rivero","tag-shaun-anderson","tag-texas","tag-texas-rangers","tag-texasrangers","tag-yusei-kikuchi"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785420","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=785420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785420\/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=785420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}