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Los Angeles Angels<\/a> (56-90, fifth in the AL West) vs. Washington Nationals<\/a> (67-81, fifth in the NL East)<\/p>\n

Washington; Friday, 6:45 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Angels: Yusei Kikuchi<\/a> (1-5, 4.96 ERA, 1.47 WHIP, 49 strikeouts); Nationals: Cade Cavalli (12-5, 3.12 ERA, 1.18 WHIP, 185 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Nationals -156, Angels +127; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

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

Washington is 67-81 overall and 33-40 in home games. Nationals hitters have a collective .428 slugging percentage to rank second in the majors.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles has gone 26-46 on the road and 56-90 overall. The Angels have a 35-15 record in games when they scored five or more runs.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Friday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: James Wood<\/a> has 29 doubles, a triple and 30 home runs while hitting .266 for the Nationals. Keibert Ruiz<\/a> is 8 for 25 with two doubles and two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Zach Neto<\/a> has 25 home runs, 55 walks and 72 RBIs while hitting .244 for the Angels. Wade Meckler<\/a> is 12 for 34 with three doubles and four RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Nationals: 2-8, .232 batting average, 6.11 ERA, outscored by 20 runs<\/p>\n

Angels: 4-6, .257 batting average, 3.17 ERA, outscored opponents by six runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Nationals: Richard Lovelady: 60-Day IL (tricep), Matt Waldron<\/a>: 15-Day IL (chest), DJ Herz: 60-Day IL (elbow), Orlando Ribalta<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Josiah Gray<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Drew Millas<\/a>: 60-Day IL (finger), Connelly Early: 60-Day IL (elbow), PJ Poulin: 60-Day IL (flexor), Mitchell Parker: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ken Waldichuk<\/a>: 60-Day IL (forearm)<\/p>\n

Angels: Sam Bachman: 15-Day IL (forearm), Gustavo Campero<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Nolan Schanuel<\/a>: 10-Day IL (side), 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 (56-90, fifth in the AL West) vs. Washington Nationals (67-81, fifth in the NL East)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2398],"tags":[9394,5,26653,75686,32138,1337,758,565,12062,2101,7145,56,19,2282,4,415,4953,12061,9393,51590,414,71,4222,809,2052],"class_list":["post-802186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-nationals","tag-anthony-rendon","tag-baseball","tag-drew-millas","tag-event_preview","tag-george-klassen","tag-gustavo-campero","tag-jack-kochanowicz","tag-james-wood","tag-josiah-gray","tag-keibert-ruiz","tag-ken-waldichuk","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-matt-waldron","tag-mlb","tag-nationals","tag-nolan-schanuel","tag-orlando-ribalta","tag-robert-stephenson","tag-wade-meckler","tag-washington","tag-washington-nationals","tag-washingtonnationals","tag-yusei-kikuchi","tag-zach-neto"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117251640125759026","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802186","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=802186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802186\/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=802186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}