Los Angeles Angels (23-36, fifth in the AL West) vs. Tampa Bay Rays (35-20, first in the AL East)<\/p>\n
St. Petersburg, Florida; Sunday, 1:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Angels: Jack Kochanowicz (2-3, 4.99 ERA, 1.39 WHIP, 45 strikeouts); Rays: Shane McClanahan (5-2, 2.52 ERA, 1.04 WHIP, 50 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
LINE: Rays -196, Angels +162; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Tampa Bay Rays and Los Angeles Angels meet on Sunday with the winner claiming the three-game series.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay is 35-20 overall and 20-6 at home. Rays hitters are batting a collective .260, the second-best team batting average in MLB play.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles has a 23-36 record overall and an 11-20 record in road games. The Angels are 13-5 in games when they hit at least two home runs.<\/p>\n
Sunday\u2019s game is the third meeting between these teams this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Jonathan Aranda has nine doubles and 10 home runs for the Rays. Yandy Diaz is 15 for 36 with five doubles and five home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Rays: 5-5, .270 batting average, 4.89 ERA, outscored by nine runs<\/p>\n
Angels: 6-4, .248 batting average, 3.50 ERA, outscored opponents by 19 runs<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Rays: Steven Wilson: 60-Day IL (back), Michael Grove: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Griffin Jax: day-to-day (back), Gavin Lux: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jesse Scholtens: 15-Day IL (wrist), Jonny Deluca: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Jake Fraley: 10-Day IL (groin), Ryan Pepiot: 60-Day IL (hip), Edwin Uceta: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Manuel Rodriguez: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n
Angels: Zach Neto: day-to-day (head), Nolan Schanuel: 10-Day IL (calf), Ben Joyce: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Yoan Moncada: 10-Day IL (knee), Yusei Kikuchi: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Travis d\u2019Arnaud: 10-Day IL (foot), Robert Stephenson: 60-Day IL (elbow), Anthony Rendon: 60-Day IL (hip)<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Angels (23-36, fifth in the AL West) vs. Tampa Bay Rays (35-20, first in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,33144,10116,2135,73824,140377,69217,140380,9105,97371,126042,126040,126043,126041,2866,140383,140379,5443,57087,48806,140378,125638,127,140381,48889,57475,140382,17209,23643,14504],"class_list":["post-340804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-anthony-rendon","tag-athlete-injuries","tag-baseball","tag-ben-joyce","tag-edwin-uceta","tag-gavin-lux","tag-griffin-jax","tag-illinois","tag-jack-kochanowicz","tag-jake-fraley","tag-jesse-scholtens","tag-jonathan-aranda","tag-jonny-deluca","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-manuel-rodriguez","tag-michael-grove","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-nolan-schanuel","tag-robert-stephenson","tag-ryan-pepiot","tag-shane-mcclanahan","tag-sports","tag-steven-wilson","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-travis-darnaud","tag-yandy-diaz","tag-yoan-moncada","tag-yusei-kikuchi","tag-zach-neto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340804","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=340804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}