{"id":274603,"date":"2026-04-18T20:07:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T20:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/274603\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T20:07:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T20:07:22","slug":"padres-vs-angels-apr-18-2026-pregame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/274603\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres vs. Angels (Apr 18, 2026) Pregame"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Diego Padres<\/a> (13-7, second in the NL West) vs. Los Angeles Angels<\/a> (11-10, second in the AL West)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Padres: German Marquez<\/a> (2-1, 5.54 ERA, 1.69 WHIP, 10 strikeouts); Angels: Yusei Kikuchi<\/a> (0-2, 7.50 ERA, 1.89 WHIP, 19 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Padres -113, Angels -106; over\/under is 9 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Los Angeles Angels host the San Diego Padres with a 1-0 series lead.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles has a 4-3 record at home and an 11-10 record overall. The Angels have an 8-1 record in games when they record eight or more hits.<\/p>\n

San Diego has gone 4-3 in road games and 13-7 overall. The Padres have gone 10-0 in games when they scored at least five runs.<\/p>\n

The matchup Saturday is the second time these teams square off this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Jo Adell<\/a> leads the Angels with a .302 batting average, and has two doubles, three home runs, two walks and 14 RBI. Jorge Soler<\/a> is 11 for 35 with four home runs and 12 RBI over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Ramon Laureano<\/a> has four doubles, a triple, four home runs and 13 RBI while hitting .290 for the Padres. Xander Bogaerts<\/a> is 12 for 38 with three home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Angels: 5-5, .261 batting average, 5.06 ERA, outscored opponents by 15 runs<\/p>\n

Padres: 8-2, .248 batting average, 3.46 ERA, outscored opponents by 15 runs<\/p>\n

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

Padres: Yuki Matsui: 15-Day IL (groin), Joe Musgrove: 15-Day IL (elbow), Nick Pivetta: 15-Day IL (elbow), Jeremiah Estrada: 15-Day IL (elbow), Bryan Hoeing: 15-Day IL (elbow), Griffin Canning: 15-Day IL (achilles), Will Wagner<\/a>: 10-Day IL (oblique), Jhony Brito<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/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":"San Diego Padres (13-7, second in the NL West) vs. Los Angeles Angels (11-10, second in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-274603","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\/274603","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=274603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}