{"id":276759,"date":"2026-04-20T12:41:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/276759\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T12:41:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:41:15","slug":"blue-jays-vs-angels-apr-20-2026-pregame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/276759\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays vs. Angels (Apr 20, 2026) Pregame"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> (8-13, fifth in the AL East) vs. Los Angeles Angels<\/a> (11-12, third in the AL West)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Blue Jays: Dylan Cease<\/a> (0-0, 1.74 ERA, 1.26 WHIP, 32 strikeouts); Angels: Reid Detmers<\/a> (1-1, 3.57 ERA, 1.06 WHIP, 26 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Blue Jays -126, Angels +105; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Los Angeles Angels open a three-game series at home against the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles has a 4-5 record at home and an 11-12 record overall. Angels pitchers have a collective 3.99 ERA, which ranks sixth in the AL.<\/p>\n

Toronto has an 8-13 record overall and a 2-7 record in road games. Blue Jays hitters are batting a collective .252, the eighth-best team batting average in MLB play.<\/p>\n

Monday’s game is the first time these teams meet this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Jo Adell<\/a> leads the Angels with a .280 batting average, and has two doubles, three home runs, three walks and 14 RBI. Jorge Soler<\/a> is 11 for 36 with four home runs and 12 RBI over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Kazuma Okamoto<\/a> leads the Blue Jays with three home runs while slugging .364. Vladimir Guerrero Jr<\/a>. is 17 for 40 with five doubles and six RBI over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Angels: 5-5, .253 batting average, 4.24 ERA, outscored opponents by 22 runs<\/p>\n

Blue Jays: 4-6, .280 batting average, 4.55 ERA, outscored by three 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

Blue Jays: Daulton Varsho<\/a>: day-to-day (knee), Trey Yesavage: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Alejandro Kirk<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Lazaro Estrada<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Yimi Garcia: 15-Day IL (elbow), Shane Bieber<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), George Springer<\/a>: 10-Day IL (toe), Addison Barger<\/a>: 10-Day IL (ankle), Cody Ponce<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Anthony Santander<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jose Berrios: 15-Day IL (elbow), Bowden Francis<\/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":"Toronto Blue Jays (8-13, fifth in the AL East) vs. Los Angeles Angels (11-12, third in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-276759","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\/276759","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=276759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}