Friday evening, the Los Angeles Angels will start a series of three games against the Giants of San Francisco in Anaheim, California, after playing 15 of their first 18 games on the road.
The first goal player of the Angels, Nolan Schanuel, entered the off -season, seeking to improve his figures compared to last season. In particular, his statistics in home matches were worse than his road figures at all levels.
He struck .240 with six circuits and a percentage of scanning of 0.679 on the basis of Anaheim, against 0.262, seven circuits and 0.735 ops on the road. The 13 circuits overall were a disappointment, while 19 people from the first Major League struck more long balls than Schanuel last year.
Schanuel, who went 1 for 4 with a race in the defeat of 5-3 of the Angels against the Texas Rangers on Thursday, struck two circuits this season – which would put him at a rate for 18, an improvement compared to last year. However, Schanuel hopes to provide more pop for a program that went with 30 circuits, which ranks third in the majors behind the 34 of the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees.
“I did a lot of weightlifting, a lot of overload / underload with different bats,” said Schanuel about his winter work. “I think it has helped the most. It has sort of helped the rapid contraction muscles of my body and works somehow the hips, works the obliques. I always do it every three days.”
His two circuits have occurred in the last five games, giving the 23 -year -old left -handed striker, the hope that his work will pay off.
“I feel pretty good,” said Schanuel. “I feel myself from the start, especially in the spring, I attracted the ball too far forward, causing a lot of topspin, and a little at the start of the season. So, something on which I just had to work was to become a little deeper and not to be in front.”
The left-hander Tyler Anderson (1-0, 2.87 ERA) will start on Friday for Los Angeles, winning his first victory of the year on Saturday against the Astros of Houston.
He held the Astros for a single blow, but he walked four and needed 95 locations to spend 5 2/3 -sleeves aimlessly.
Anderson has a 4-3 file with an MPM of 4.09 in 12 career starts against the Giants.
The right-handed Logan Webb (2-0, 2.63) will make its fifth start of the season for San Francisco. He won a victory over the Yankees in New York on Sunday, when he granted three points and five strokes in five rounds.
Webb faced the angels only once, starting on August 7, 2023. He ended up with a decision without decision after authorizing two points (a deserved) on seven strokes in 5 2/3 innings.
Giant Giant Center, Jung Hoo Lee, did not start in the 6-4 defeat of San Francisco against the Phillies on Thursday, the second time in the 18 games of the club, he was not in alignment. He got out of the bench and delivered a simple on the terrain with pinch strokes in ninth round.
Lee has seven multi-cut games, and he beats .348 with 14 additional strokes and a 1.055 OPS.
Lee turned heads when he hit three circuits in the Yankee Stadium last weekend series.
“Many of these guys he had never faced before, and he will continue to face guys he has never seen before,” said Giants manager Bob Melvin, about the 26 -year -old Japan native who played 37 games for San Francisco last season. “But that’s a bit there that bat’s skills come into play. He feels like he can put anyone in play. When he sees it well and sounds it, that’s the kind of results you are going to get.”
Lee played seven seasons in the KBO League, the professional baseball circuit in South Korea, before signing with the Giants in December 2023.
– field level media