Athletics open series at home against Angels

Los Angeles Angels (75-76, fourth in AL West) vs. Oakland Athletics (90-61, second in AL West)

Oakland, California; Wednesday, 10:05 p.m. Eastern

PROBABLE PITCHERS: Angels: Felix Pena (3-4, 3.75 ERA, 1.25 WHIP, 76 strikeouts) Athletics: Brett Anderson (3-5, 4.35 ERA, 1.30 WHIP, 36 strikeouts)

BOTTOM LINE: Oakland and Los Angeles meet to kick off a two-game series. The Athletics hope to end a three-game slide. Oakland’s lineup has 205 home runs this year, led by Khris Davis’ mark of 43. The Angels are 7-8 in Pena’s starts this season. Los Angeles has slugged .416 this season, Mike Trout leads the team with a mark of .629. Jed Lowrie helped the A’s earn an 8-7 win when these two teams last met on Aug. 12. He went 2-for-4 with two RBIs.

TOP PERFORMERS: Andrelton Simmons has 156 hits for the Angels this season. He’s batting .298 on the year. Shohei Ohtani has two home runs and eight RBIs while slugging .639 over his past 10 games for Los Angeles. Jed Lowrie has 21 home runs and 91 RBIs in 146 games for the A’s. Matt Olson has three home runs and nine RBIs while slugging .706 over his past 10 games for Oakland.

LAST 10 GAMES: Angels: 6-4, .239 batting average, 3.20 ERA, outscored opponents by seven runs. Athletics: 6-4, .262 batting average, 3.58 ERA, outscored opponents by 23 runs.

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by HERO Sports, and data from Sportradar.