{"id":257935,"date":"2026-04-08T18:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T18:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/257935\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T18:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T18:16:11","slug":"braves-vs-angels-apr-8-2026-pregame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/257935\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves vs. Angels (Apr 8, 2026) Pregame"},"content":{"rendered":"

Atlanta Braves<\/a> (7-5, second in the NL East) vs. Los Angeles Angels<\/a> (6-6, third in the AL West)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Braves: Grant Holmes<\/a> (0-1, 2.45 ERA, 1.00 WHIP, eight strikeouts); Angels: Reid Detmers<\/a> (0-0, 2.38 ERA, 1.15 WHIP, 13 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

Braves -127, Angels +107; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Los Angeles Angels and Atlanta Braves meet on Wednesday with the winner claiming the three-game series.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles has gone 3-2 in home games and 6-6 overall. The Angels have a 2-0 record in games decided by one run.<\/p>\n

Atlanta is 7-5 overall and 3-3 on the road. The Braves have the best team ERA in the NL at 2.12.<\/p>\n

The matchup Wednesday is the third meeting between these teams this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Zach Neto<\/a> leads the Angels with four home runs while slugging .521. Nolan Schanuel<\/a> is 10 for 41 with two home runs and seven RBI over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Drake Baldwin<\/a> leads the Braves with five home runs while slugging .653. Mauricio Dubon<\/a> is 13 for 36 with two doubles, two home runs and five RBI over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Angels: 4-6, .182 batting average, 4.04 ERA, outscored by 12 runs<\/p>\n

Braves: 5-5, .246 batting average, 2.35 ERA, outscored opponents by 18 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Angels: Ryan Johnson: 15-Day IL (illness), Kirby Yates: 15-Day IL (knee), Robert Stephenson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Vaughn Grissom<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Grayson Rodriguez: 15-Day IL (arm), Ben Joyce: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Anthony Rendon<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip), Alek Manoah: 15-Day IL (finger)<\/p>\n

Braves: AJ Smith-Shawver<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ha-Seong Kim<\/a>: 10-Day IL (finger), Spencer Strider: 15-Day IL (oblique), Danny Young: 15-Day IL (elbow), Daysbel Hernandez: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Sean Murphy<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hip), Hurston Waldrep: 15-Day IL (elbow), Spencer Schwellenbach<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Joe Jimenez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Joey Wentz<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atlanta Braves (7-5, second in the NL East) vs. Los Angeles Angels (6-6, third in the AL West)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-257935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}