Los Angeles Angels (30-45, fifth in the AL West) vs. Athletics (36-38, second in the AL West)<\/p>\n
West Sacramento, California; Thursday, 9:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Angels: Jose Soriano (8-4, 2.79 ERA, 1.23 WHIP, 92 strikeouts); Athletics: Gage Jump (2-1, 3.09 ERA, 1.11 WHIP, 19 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
LINE: Athletics -136, Angels +112; over\/under is 9 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Athletics host the Los Angeles Angels on Thursday to open a four-game series.<\/p>\n
The Athletics are 36-38 overall and 16-21 at home. The Athletics have gone 26-9 in games when they scored five or more runs.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles is 30-45 overall and 13-25 in road games. Angels hitters have a collective .319 on-base percentage, the sixth-ranked percentage in the AL.<\/p>\n
Thursday\u2019s game is the fifth meeting between these teams this season. The Athletics are up 3-1 in the season series.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Nick Kurtz has 13 doubles, a triple and 18 home runs while hitting .292 for the Athletics. Zack Gelof is 15 for 41 with four doubles and five home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Mike Trout has 12 doubles and 17 home runs while hitting .234 for the Angels. Zach Neto is 9 for 44 with a triple and four home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Athletics: 6-4, .294 batting average, 6.77 ERA, outscored by three runs<\/p>\n
Angels: 6-4, .289 batting average, 3.10 ERA, outscored opponents by 20 runs<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Athletics: Luis Severino: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Brooks Kriske: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Brent Rooker: 10-Day IL (knee), Denzel Clarke: 60-Day IL (foot), Gunnar Hoglund: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n
Angels: Gustavo Campero: 10-Day IL (hand), Adam Frazier: 10-Day IL (elbow), Grayson Rodriguez: 15-Day IL (back), Jorge Soler: 10-Day IL (hip), Jose Soriano: day-to-day (leg), Travis d\u2019Arnaud: 60-Day IL (foot), Sebastian Rivero: 10-Day IL (hand), Yoan Moncada: 60-Day IL (knee), Jack Kochanowicz: 60-Day IL (elbow), Robert Stephenson: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ben Joyce: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Yusei Kikuchi: 60-Day IL (shoulder), 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 (30-45, fifth in the AL West) vs. Athletics (36-38, second in the AL West) West…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[88951,163,165,164,33144,30942,2135,73824,123088,148748,116496,36470,42863,9105,97371,57484,68435,2866,78026,5128,5443,32869,48806,88952,127,57475,17209,23643,14504,99759],"class_list":["post-366682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-adam-frazier","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-anthony-rendon","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-ben-joyce","tag-brent-rooker","tag-brooks-kriske","tag-denzel-clarke","tag-grayson-rodriguez","tag-gustavo-campero","tag-illinois","tag-jack-kochanowicz","tag-jorge-soler","tag-jose-soriano","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-luis-severino","tag-mike-trout","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-nick-kurtz","tag-robert-stephenson","tag-sebastian-rivero","tag-sports","tag-travis-darnaud","tag-yoan-moncada","tag-yusei-kikuchi","tag-zach-neto","tag-zack-gelof"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366682","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=366682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366682\/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=366682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}