Los Angeles and Arizona open a 3-game set on Monday, June 15 with first pitch at 6:40 PM MT. Probable starters hadn't been confirmed as of writing, which makes the odds card up top and the pitcher matchup card below the only honest read on who's actually throwing. What we do know: this is a 27-42 Angels club crashing a .500 building, and it's the Angels who are playing the cleaner baseball right now. They took 2 of 3 from the Astros at the Big A, capped by a Jose Siri walk-off single in extras on Wednesday. Mike Trout snapped an 0-for-22 skid in that series, and Wade Meckler and Jo Adell did the bulk of the damage in the 10-1 laugher on Tuesday. The Diamondbacks are the opposite story. Torey Lovullo's group just got swept in Miami and shut out in back-to-back games, including a 2-0 finale on Thursday where they struck out 13 times. Arizona has lost 5 of 6 and the lineup has hit .145 over the last two. They've got the weekend in Cincinnati first, but the offense flying back to the desert needs a reset button. Pitching depth is also why these two are stuck where they are. Arizona is without Corbin Burnes (elbow, teres major strain, shut down from throwing) plus A.J. Puk, Justin Martinez and Andrew Saalfrank from the bullpen. The Angels are even more cooked on that front — Yusei Kikuchi and Jack Kochanowicz (Tommy John) are out long-term, Robert Stephenson is likely done for the year, and Ben Joyce hasn't resumed mound work. Whoever toes the rubber Monday is doing it on a short staff. One thing breaking Arizona's way: Jordan Lawlar is back. The Diamondbacks were set to activate him from the 60-day IL on Friday vs. the Reds, and the lineup that gets shut out in Miami is not the lineup Lawlar walks into for this series. Lourdes Gurriel Jr. is also rehabbing and close. That's the read on Arizona — bad week, but they're getting healthier at the right time. Stylistically this is a coin flip dressed up as a mismatch. The Angels just put up 13 and 10 in back-to-back games in the same week they scored 2 and 4. The Diamondbacks were a .500 club until they hit South Florida. Game 1 of this series is going to come down to whoever's bullpen blinks first, because neither rotation is showing up at full strength.