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Los Angeles Angels<\/a> (54-89, fifth in the AL West) vs. Boston Red Sox<\/a> (79-65, third in the AL East)<\/p>\n

Boston; Monday, 1:35 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Angels: Grayson Rodriguez<\/a> (4-6, 6.03 ERA, 1.52 WHIP, 72 strikeouts); Red Sox: Patrick Sandoval (1-4, 4.41 ERA, 1.74 WHIP, 50 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Red Sox -178, Angels +144; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Boston Red Sox host the Los Angeles Angels to begin a three-game series.<\/p>\n

Boston has a 35-34 record at home and a 79-65 record overall. The Red Sox have gone 54-26 in games when they record at least eight hits.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles has a 54-89 record overall and a 24-45 record on the road. The Angels have gone 16-26 in games decided by one run.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Monday for the fourth time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Wilyer Abreu<\/a> has 34 doubles, four triples and 23 home runs while hitting .256 for the Red Sox. Mickey Gasper<\/a> is 7 for 28 with a double and three home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Mike Trout<\/a> has 22 doubles, 20 home runs and 51 RBIs for the Angels. Zach Neto<\/a> is 10 for 39 with a double, a home run and five RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Red Sox: 6-4, .236 batting average, 5.56 ERA, outscored by 14 runs<\/p>\n

Angels: 2-8, .197 batting average, 3.30 ERA, outscored by three runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Red Sox: Kutter Crawford: 60-Day IL (wrist), Ceddanne Rafaela: 10-Day IL (quadricep), Johan Oviedo<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Willson Contreras: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Justin Slaten<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Tayron Guerrero: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Masataka Yoshida<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Zack Kelly<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Eduardo Rivera<\/a>: 60-Day IL (undisclosed), Garrett Crochet: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Curtis Mead: 10-Day IL (hand), Triston Casas<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Tanner Houck: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Angels: Gustavo Campero: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Nolan Schanuel<\/a>: 10-Day IL (side), Sam Bachman<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Yoan Moncada: 60-Day IL (knee), George Klassen<\/a>: 15-Day IL (back), 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 (54-89, fifth in the AL West) vs. Boston Red Sox (79-65, third 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":[291,9394,5,48,74108,75686,32138,582,758,5416,1093,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,19,792,3212,603,4,4953,9393,3510,1946,606,2052,15821],"class_list":["post-798771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-angels","tag-angels","tag-anthony-rendon","tag-baseball","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-eduardo-rivera","tag-event_preview","tag-george-klassen","tag-grayson-rodriguez","tag-jack-kochanowicz","tag-johan-oviedo","tag-justin-slaten","tag-la","tag-la-angels","tag-laangels","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesangels","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-masataka-yoshida","tag-mickey-gasper","tag-mike-trout","tag-mlb","tag-nolan-schanuel","tag-robert-stephenson","tag-sam-bachman","tag-triston-casas","tag-wilyer-abreu","tag-zach-neto","tag-zack-kelly"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117228884643679230","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798771","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=798771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798771\/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=798771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}