It's not often that the Houston Astros are on the outside looking in for the American League West division lead, but that's the case entering their game on the road against the Los Angeles Angels on Wednesday.
Houston Astros (-115, 8.5) vs. Los Angeles Angels
The Angels will look to improve their record to 4-1 in Griffin Canning's starts on Wednesday, though the numbers have not been impress for Canning as he has yet to go more than 5 1/3 innings in any of his starts. Posting a 5.31 ERA with eight strikeouts and 3.5 walks per nine innings.
While the bullpen behind Canning entered Tuesday eighth in the league in ERA, which is relatively on par with the Astros who were seventh in the league entering Tuesday, their expected fielding independent (xFIP) ranked 15th and was 0.95 points higher than their ERA.