The Los Angeles Angels continue a weekend series in Cleveland against the Guardians on Saturday. The Angels trail the first-place Texas Rangers in the AL West while the Guardians find themselves behind the Twins in the AL Central. The pitching matchup on Saturday will be Angels' lefty Reid Detmers (0-3, 5.10) taking on Guardians righty Cal Quantrill (2-2, 3.89). The first pitch is scheduled for 6:10 PM EST.
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The Los Angeles Angels are still very much alive in what has been a relatively quiet start for much of the AL West Division. The Angels are within three games of first-place Texas and are ahead of the perennial division winners, the Houston Astros. The Angels followed up a recent five-game winning streak by losing four of their last five games heading into this series including the final two games of their series with the Astros. On Friday night, the Angels battled back from a 2-0 deficit and then again 4-3 in the 9th inning to pull out a 5-4 win.
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The Angels will give the ball to lefty Reid Detmers in Saturday's second game of the series. Detmers is 0-3 with an ERA of 5.10 in six starts with just one quality start thus far. He has given up 33 hits in 30 innings and has an 11.4 K/9 ratio. On the road, Detmers is 0-2 in three starts with an ERA of 4.70 and one quality start. Detmers K/9 ratio on the road is 11.7. Detmer's strikeout rate has jumped to 27% this season, five percentage points ahead of last season. He has been hit hard this season, however, with a hard-hit percentage at 43%.
Key Injuries: 1B Jared Walsh and C Chris Wallach are out.