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New York Yankees<\/a> (78-59, second in the AL East) vs. Los Angeles Angels<\/a> (52-85, fifth in the AL West)<\/p>\n

Anaheim, California; Monday, 9:38 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Yankees: Elmer Rodriguez-Cruz (0-2, 4.70 ERA, 1.52 WHIP, 16 strikeouts); Angels: Walbert Urena (8-9, 2.94 ERA, 1.29 WHIP, 112 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Yankees -142, Angels +119; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Los Angeles Angels host the New York Yankees to begin a three-game series.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles has gone 29-42 in home games and 52-85 overall. The Angels have the 10th-ranked team ERA in the AL at 4.29.<\/p>\n

New York is 78-59 overall and 41-28 on the road. Yankees pitchers have a collective 3.20 ERA, which leads MLB<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Monday’s game is the fifth meeting between these teams this season. The season series is tied 2-2.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Mike Trout<\/a> has 21 doubles and 20 home runs for the Angels. Zach Neto<\/a> is 16 for 43 with three doubles, a triple and three home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Ben Rice<\/a> has 22 doubles, three triples and 35 home runs for the Yankees. Luis Garcia<\/a> is 15 for 34 with a double, four home runs and nine RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Angels: 2-8, .222 batting average, 3.26 ERA, outscored opponents by three runs<\/p>\n

Yankees: 6-4, .263 batting average, 3.10 ERA, outscored opponents by 23 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Angels: George Klassen<\/a>: 15-Day IL (back), Gustavo Campero<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), 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

Yankees: George Lombard<\/a> Jr.: day-to-day (knee), Fernando Cruz<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Kervin Castro<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Giancarlo Stanton<\/a>: 60-Day IL (calf), Ryan Weathers<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Ryan McMahon: 10-Day IL (thumb), Aaron Judge: 60-Day IL (rib), Clarke Schmidt<\/a>: 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":"New York Yankees (78-59, second in the AL East) vs. Los Angeles Angels (52-85, fifth in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[291,9394,5,731,1216,75686,8635,32138,2107,310,1337,758,58674,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,911,19,603,4,62,4953,9393,1073,3510,93881,2052],"class_list":["post-792975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-angels","tag-angels","tag-anthony-rendon","tag-baseball","tag-ben-rice","tag-clarke-schmidt","tag-event_preview","tag-fernando-cruz","tag-george-klassen","tag-george-lombard-jr","tag-giancarlo-stanton","tag-gustavo-campero","tag-jack-kochanowicz","tag-kervin-castro","tag-la","tag-la-angels","tag-laangels","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesangels","tag-luis-garcia-jr","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mike-trout","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-nolan-schanuel","tag-robert-stephenson","tag-ryan-weathers","tag-sam-bachman","tag-samy-natera-jr","tag-zach-neto"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117189272125052988","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792975","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=792975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792975\/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=792975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}