A pair of MLB’s best sluggers go head-to-head when the Los Angeles Dodgers (68-50) and the Los Angeles Angels (56-62) play at 9:38 p.m. ET on Monday at Angel Stadium. Shohei Ohtani has 41 homers (second in the majors) for the favored Dodgers (-179), and Taylor Ward ranks eighth in MLB play with 27 long balls this season for the Angels (+149). Yoshinobu Yamamoto starts for the Dodgers while the Angels will counter with Jose Soriano.

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Dodgers vs. Angels betting lines

• Favorite: Dodgers (-179)
• Underdog: Angels (+149)
• Over/under: 8.5

Dodgers betting info, hitting leaders, & pitching

Dodgers betting info

• The Dodgers are 61-41 in games they were listed as the moneyline favorite (winning 59.8% of those games).
• The Dodgers have a record of 36-21 when playing as a moneyline favorite with odds of -179 or shorter (63.2%).
• The Dodgers have an implied moneyline win probability of 64.2% in this contest.
• The Dodgers have played in 118 games with a set over/under, and have combined with their opponents to go over the total 57 times (57-56-5).
• The Dodgers are 51-67-0 against the spread this season.

Dodgers hitting info

• Ohtani has put up a team-best 41 home runs and 77 runs batted in.
• Ohtani’s home runs rank second in MLB and he ranks 13th in RBI in MLB.
• Ohtani heads into this game on a nine-game hitting streak. In his last 10 games he is hitting .400 with three doubles, three home runs, eight walks and four RBIs.
• Mookie Betts is batting .240 with 17 doubles, a triple, 12 home runs and 44 walks.
• Betts currently ranks 119th in homers and 80th in RBI in the majors.
• Betts brings a five-game hitting streak into this game. During his last five outings he is hitting .409 with two doubles, a home run, two walks and five RBIs.
• Freddie Freeman has 29 doubles, a triple, 14 home runs and 45 walks while batting .308.
• Freeman has safely hit in two straight games. In his last five games he is hitting .313 with a home run, five walks and five RBIs.
• Andy Pages is hitting .278 with 20 doubles, a triple, 19 home runs and 22 walks.
• Pages enters this matchup on a five-game hitting streak. During his last five outings he is hitting .350 with three doubles, two walks and two RBIs.

Dodgers pitching rankings

• The Dodgers pitching staff is third in the majors with a collective 9.0 strikeouts per nine innings.
• The Dodgers have a 4.09 team ERA that ranks 18th among all MLB pitching staffs.
• The Dodgers average MLB’s 21st-ranked WHIP (1.307).
• Dodgers pitchers combine to give up the 21st-fewest home runs in baseball (142 total, 1.2 per game).
• They struck out 14 Blue Jays batters while giving up nine hits in a 5-4 loss in their last game.

Angels betting info, hitting leaders, & pitching

Angels betting info

• This season, the Angels have won 40 out of the 87 games, or 46%, in which they’ve been the underdog.
• The Angels have a record of 12-16, a 42.9% win rate, when they’re set as the underdog by +149 or more by sportsbooks this season.
• The implied probability of a win by the Angels, based on the moneyline, is 40.2%.
• Games involving the Angels have gone over the total set by bookmakers in 63 of 118 chances this season.
• The Angels are 65-53-0 against the spread this season.

Angels hitting info

• Ward is batting .234 this season with a team-high 27 home runs and 87 RBI.
• Among all hitters in MLB, Ward ranks eighth in home runs and fifth in RBI.
• Nolan Schanuel is batting .272 to lead Los Angeles, while adding 10 homers and 48 runs batted in this season.
• Schanuel currently is 151st in homers and 105th in RBI in the major leagues.
• Schanuel enters this game on a two-game hitting streak. In his last five games he is batting .174 with a home run and three RBIs.
• Zach Neto is slashing .266/.321/.462 this season for the Angels.
• Jo Adell is batting .229 with an OBP of .296 and a slugging percentage of .472 this season.

Angels pitching rankings

• The Angels average the 22nd-most strikeouts per nine innings (8.0) in the majors this season.
• Angels pitchers have a combined ERA of 4.62 ERA this year, which ranks 26th in MLB.
• The Angels have a combined WHIP of 1.422 as a pitching staff, which is third-worst in baseball this season.
• With 159 homers allowed, the Angels rank 26th in the league at preventing long balls.
• Last time out, they fell to the Tigers, 9-5, with four strikeouts and 10 hits allowed.