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Cleveland Guardians<\/a> (67-66, second in the AL Central) vs. Los Angeles Angels<\/a> (52-81, fifth in the AL West)<\/p>\n

Anaheim, California; Wednesday, 4:07 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Guardians: Joey Cantillo (9-7, 3.73 ERA, 1.45 WHIP, 144 strikeouts); Angels: Grayson Rodriguez<\/a> (4-5, 6.41 ERA, 1.53 WHIP, 61 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Guardians -145, Angels +128; over\/under is 7 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Cleveland Guardians play the Los Angeles Angels after Steven Kwan<\/a> had five hits on Tuesday in an 8-6 win over the Angels.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles has a 52-81 record overall and a 29-38 record in home games. The Angels have gone 21-9 in games when they hit two or more home runs.<\/p>\n

Cleveland is 67-66 overall and 36-32 in road games. The Guardians have the seventh-best team ERA in MLB<\/a> play at 3.75.<\/p>\n

Wednesday’s game is the sixth meeting between these teams this season. The Guardians have a 5-0 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Zach Neto<\/a> leads the Angels with 53 extra base hits (27 doubles, four triples and 22 home runs). Vaughn Grissom<\/a> is 9 for 38 with two doubles, two home runs and seven RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Kwan has 15 doubles, two triples and two home runs for the Guardians. Jo Adell<\/a> is 12 for 37 with three doubles and two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Angels: 4-6, .228 batting average, 2.22 ERA, outscored opponents by 10 runs<\/p>\n

Guardians: 8-2, .271 batting average, 2.37 ERA, outscored opponents by 27 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Angels: Shaun Anderson<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Gustavo Campero<\/a>: day-to-day (hamstring), Sebastian Rivero<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hand), Wade Meckler: 7-Day IL (head), Nolan Schanuel<\/a>: 10-Day IL (side), Sam Bachman<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Samy Natera<\/a> Jr.: 15-Day IL (back), 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

Guardians: Chase DeLauter: day-to-day (hamstring), Rhys Hoskins: 10-Day IL (back), Shawn Armstrong: 60-Day IL (leg), Slade Cecconi: 15-Day IL (arm)<\/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":"Cleveland Guardians (67-66, second in the AL Central) vs. Los Angeles Angels (52-81, fifth 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":[291,9394,5,75686,582,1337,758,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,19,4,4953,9393,3510,93881,45847,7633,1229,2052],"class_list":["post-788741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-angels","tag-angels","tag-anthony-rendon","tag-baseball","tag-event_preview","tag-grayson-rodriguez","tag-gustavo-campero","tag-jack-kochanowicz","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-nolan-schanuel","tag-robert-stephenson","tag-sam-bachman","tag-samy-natera-jr","tag-sebastian-rivero","tag-shaun-anderson","tag-vaughn-grissom","tag-zach-neto"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117160984111730911","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788741","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=788741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788741\/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=788741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}