{"id":280210,"date":"2026-04-22T12:48:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T12:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/280210\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T12:48:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T12:48:52","slug":"blue-jays-vs-angels-apr-22-2026-pregame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/280210\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays vs. Angels (Apr 22, 2026) Pregame"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> (10-13, fourth in the AL East) vs. Los Angeles Angels<\/a> (11-14, third in the AL West)<\/p>\n

Anaheim, California; Wednesday, 3:07 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Blue Jays: Eric Lauer<\/a> (1-3, 7.13 ERA, 1.47 WHIP, 16 strikeouts); Angels: Jose Soriano<\/a> (5-0, 0.28 ERA, 0.73 WHIP, 39 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Angels -113, Blue Jays -104; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Toronto Blue Jays will try to keep a three-game road win streak alive when they visit the Los Angeles Angels.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles is 11-14 overall and 4-7 at home. Angels hitters have a collective .329 on-base percentage, the 10th-best percentage in MLB play.<\/p>\n

Toronto has gone 4-7 in road games and 10-13 overall. The Blue Jays have a 7-3 record in games when they record at least eight hits.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Wednesday for the third time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Zach Neto<\/a> has five doubles, five home runs and 11 RBI while hitting .237 for the Angels. Oswald Peraza<\/a> is 12 for 32 with three doubles and three home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Andres Gimenez<\/a> ranks second on the Blue Jays with seven extra base hits (three doubles, a triple and three home runs). Daulton Varsho<\/a> is 13 for 37 with two doubles, three home runs and six RBI over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Angels: 4-6, .246 batting average, 4.29 ERA, outscored opponents by 13 runs<\/p>\n

Blue Jays: 4-6, .268 batting average, 4.34 ERA, outscored by five runs<\/p>\n

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

Blue Jays: Cody Ponce<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Anthony Santander<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Trey Yesavage: 15-Day IL (shoulder), George Springer<\/a>: 10-Day IL (toe), Alejandro Kirk<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Shane Bieber<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jose Berrios: 15-Day IL (elbow), Lazaro Estrada<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Yimi Garcia: 15-Day IL (elbow), Bowden Francis<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Addison Barger<\/a>: 10-Day IL (ankle)<\/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 (10-13, fourth in the AL East) vs. Los Angeles Angels (11-14, third in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-280210","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\/280210","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=280210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}