Dodgers’ Pages – Andy Pages and Max Muncy delivered back-to-back home-run damage as the Los Angeles Dodgers opened the Freeway Series with a 6-0 shutout of the Angels at Angel Stadium.
When Blake Snell was placed on the injured list just hours before first pitch, the Dodgers walked into Friday night’s Freeway Series opener with a bullpen game forced on them.
They turned that disruption into dominance.
Los Angeles posted a 6-0 shutout over the Los Angeles Angels at Angel Stadium in Anaheim. California. improving to 27-18 and earning their first three-game winning streak in May.. The pitching staff combined for nine shutout innings, with eight different pitchers involved, and limited the Angels to two hits.
Will Klein set the tone early, working two scoreless innings while striking out two and allowing just one hit. Edgardo Henriquez then struck out Mike Trout and later earned the win, moving to 2-0.
After that, the game belonged to the relievers. Blake Treinen, Wyatt Mills, Kyle Hurt, Alex Vesia, Jack Dreyer, and Charlie Barnes all contributed, with Barnes making his Dodgers debut by pitching a hitless ninth.
The Dodgers’ offense made sure the pitching didn’t have to do everything.. Andy Pages broke the game open in the fourth with a 407-foot. three-run home run—his 10th of the season—after entering the night in a slump at the plate.. Max Muncy followed three pitches later. launching a 383-foot solo shot to right field for his 12th home run of the year.
Teoscar Hernandez added his own momentum in the sixth, hitting a 372-foot two-run homer that ended a 23-game home run drought and gave him his fifth of the season.
Shohei Ohtani contributed with his 200th career double, and Hyeseong Kim got the first Dodgers hit of the game. Ohtani also drew a walk in the third inning.
On the Angels side, Jack Kochanowicz allowed six runs on seven hits over six innings. Logan O’Hoppe exited the game in the sixth with left wrist irritation.
The loss deepened an ugly stretch for Los Angeles, which has now dropped four straight games and six of its last seven.
The series continues Saturday, with Justin Wrobleski (5-1, 2.42 ERA, 0.99 WHIP) set to start for the Dodgers against Jose Soriano (6-2, 1.66 ERA, 1.05 WHIP).
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