The Dodgers put up 6 runs and shut out the Angels as they took the first game at home against their cross-town Interleague rivals.
The Dodger offense kept Angels’ starter Joe Saunders from getting his MLB-leading 12th win. Russell Martin put the Dodgers up in the first with a solo shot, his team-leading eighth of the year. They then added two more in the fifth, one in part to Erick Aybar’s error at short. Andre Ethier blasted a three-run homerun in the seventh to make it 6-0. The homer is Ethier’s second hit in his last 15 AB’s.
Chan Ho Park pitched a gem in just his third start of the year. He threw six shutout innings, giving up just four hits, walking none, and fanning seven. Brian Falkenborg held the seventh with no hits before Jonathan Broxton and Saito combined to strike out the last six Angels batters.
The win puts the Angels just 2 1/2 games behind the Dbacks, who are now at .500. They look to take the series tonight and give the Angels their first road series loss since the weekend of May 9th by sending Chad Billingsley to the mound. Billingsley is looking to even his record at 7-7 and faces Jered Weaver who stands at 7-7. Weaver is 3-0 lifetime against the Dodgers and is coming off a win against the Phillies where he gave up just one run.
