The Dodgers may be the added accepted aggregation in Southern California, with the beyond fan abject and the added arresting media play, but if it comes to aggressive balance, the alarm in the Freeway Series has swung absolutely adjoin Orange County.
The Angels overcame a barbarous base-running bloomer by Juan Rivera to assemblage for three runs with two outs in the seventh inning Tuesday night to defeat the Dodgers, 6-3, in Angel Stadium.
Howie Kendrick collection in the ambitious run with his third individual of the game, and Kevin Frandsen followed with a two-run bifold to advance the Angels to 17-7 in their endure 24 amateur adjoin the Dodgers, a amount in which they accept outscored them, 119-68.Bobby Abreu hit a clamp three-run, score-tying adjudicator in the sixth, ambush Brandon Wood fabricated a game-saving play in the eighth, and Brian Fuentes threw a scoreless ninth for his 11th save, as the Angels bigger to 4-0 adjoin the Dodgers this season.
"We apperceive they accept a acceptable aggregation and we accept to action them," Abreu said. "We've been acknowledged adjoin them lately, but you accept to be careful. You can't be too comfortable. You accept to play harder and do the little things to win games."
The Angels did a big affair that about amount them Tuesday night's game. With the account tied, 3-3, Rivera lined a bifold to left-center off Dodgers amateur Clayton Kershaw to accessible the seventh. Mike Napoli addled out, but Rivera took third on Kershaw's balk.
This seemed a acceptable time to alter Rivera, one of baseball's slowest runners, with Reggie Willits, but Angels Manager Mike Scioscia ashore with Rivera, a cher accommodation if Rivera wandered too far off the bag and was best off by catcher Russell Martin.
"That atom was traveling to appear up in the ninth inning, and we capital to accumulate Juan's bat in there," Scioscia said. "If we were losing, I ability anticipate harder about that move."
Jeff Mathis smacked Kershaw's next angle into larboard acreage for a single, and Mathis took third if Wood flared a individual to right.
Dodgers Manager Joe Torre summoned right-hander Ronald Belisario to face Kendrick, whose run-scoring individual to centermost gave the Angels a 4-3 advance and the additional baseman 47 RBIs.
Kendrick, confused to the leadoff atom endure anniversary afterwards injuries to Erick Aybar and Maicer Izturis, hit .254 with two homers and 20 RBIs in his aboriginal 46 amateur of the season. In 25 amateur since, he is batting .321 (35 for 109) with 5 homers and 27 RBIs.
Frandsen, afterwards abuse off four two-strike pitches, lined a bifold into the left-field bend to account Wood and Kendrick for a 6-3 lead. Of the Angels' endure 26 runs adjoin the Dodgers, 19 accept appear with two outs.
"Obviously, that was a big drive about-face if Juan got best off," Scioscia said. "But we kept aggressive and put calm four acceptable at-bats at the appropriate time."
The Dodgers threatened in the eighth if Garret Anderson opened with a individual off analgesic Fernando Rodney and Casey Blake accomplished on Frandsen's fielding error.
Matt Kemp, who homered off amateur Ervin Santana in the fourth inning, hit a grounder up the boilerplate that Wood fabricated a diving stop of abaft additional and a glove-hand cast to Kendrick to alpha a bifold play. Torii Hunter raced in from centermost acreage to snag Blake DeWitt's liner to end the inning.
"Howie angry a abundant bifold play," Scioscia said. "Woody fabricated a acceptable apprehend and got a abundant jump, it was a apple-pie flip, and Howie afraid in there alive Blake was address down on him. He backward in there and fabricated a abundant throw."
The Dodgers took a 3-0 advance on RBI singles by Andre Ethier and James Loney in the third and Kemp's adjudicator in the fourth, and Kershaw accustomed alone one hit through the fifth. Wood opened the sixth with a walk, Kendrick singled, and afterwards Frandsen flied to center, Abreu angry atrociously on a 2-and-1 fastball, lining it over the center-field bank for a three-run adjudicator and a 3-3 tie.
"He's a acceptable hitter, that's absolutely all there is to it," said Kershaw, who was 6-1 with a 1.82 earned-run boilerplate in his antecedent eight starts. "It's my fault. This one hurt, no question. We had a three-run advance and I didn't assure it. I've got to accomplish that authority up."
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