500 with a quarter of the season already gone. The GOOD Los Angeles team had added a few more runs, and it was now a burly 7-3 shelling with the Halos standing on top. For a group adrift on days he does not pitch, on this roster Clayton Kershaw doubles as Atlas.Kershaw evened the Freeway Series at one victory apiece and snapped a four-game Angels winning streak.
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All this came after we had an exciting game 1, where it came down to the wire and the Angels defeated the Dodgers by one run 7-6. “One guy is not going to carry us”. He was in trouble often in the early innings but managed to work out of jams because the Angels were 0-for-5 with runners in scoring position. He pitched 109.1 innings last season, finishing 6-6 with a 3.62 ERA his most recent outing Joc Pederson (.250, 20 Rs, 8 HRs, 19 RBIs, 1 SB) has been hitting the ball well for the Dodgers, going 2 for 4 yesterday with two runs, two home runs, and three RBIs.
“Every time we scored tonight, they responded in the bottom half of the inning”, Roberts said.
Bolsinger hardly had his best stuff, with his slider being the only pitch that was effective. “But it was working, it was really good”. His opening two innings were effective, but he needed 26 pitches to get out of the third, effectively causing a short night. Two batters later, he wanted no part of Trout when issued him a free pass on four straight pitches, instead opting to pitch to Albert Pujols with the bases loaded. Pujols held at third base when second baseman Johnny Giavotella punched a 94-mph fastball into center field.
Carlos Perez followed with a sacrifice fly, completing the five-spot to put the Angels up, 6-1.
Nick Tropeano (2-2) tossed four-hit ball into the seventh inning in his longest start of the season for the Angels.
Mike Trout: 2-for-3 with a home run, 3 RBI and two runs scored. Scioscia expressed confidence in leaving the 25-year-old right-hander in game, and he returned it, striking out Kike Hernandez and inducing a double-play grounder from Turner on the perfectly-placed change.
Tropeano began the game by retiring his first 10 batters before walking Turner.
Jered Weaver (3-3) gave up four runs – three earned – and 10 hits in seven innings, struck out two and walked two in his first start against the Dodgers since May 29, 2013. “They came into the series actually playing decent baseball”, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said of the Angels.
Dodgers: 1B Adrian Gonzalez missed his second straight game with lower-back tightness that surfaced Monday.
He’s expected to return Friday or Saturday. 274 with two homers and 21 RBIs for Triple-A Salt Lake…. INF-OF Alex Guerrero, recovering from a left knee injury, is also at Rancho, where he went 1 for 4 in his fifth rehab game Sunday.
Angels: RHP Garrett Richards had a stem-cell injection Monday in his right elbow in an attempt to avoid surgery for a torn ligament…. The game gets underway at 10:05 p.m. ET on Wednesday, May.
Pedro Baez’s inconsistent tempo continues to concern the Dodgers. “After the second inning, I think I threw four fastballs the rest of the game”.
In stark contrast, the Angels’ bullpen rolled through the Dodgers’ lineup. After rounding first, he stumbled and fell, with his shin guard coming off. He got up in time to make it safely to second.
Looking to build on their win streak at the moment are the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim as they travel to the Dodger Stadium to face the Los Angeles Dodgers in Major League Baseball.
By comparison, Kershaw finished things off in a crisp 2:12.
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Tropeano was more successful than his opponents starter, in that his era was 3.30 with 1 error to his opponents 6.43 era with 3 errors and he allowed no home runs to their one home run.
