Angels Vs Dodgers June 29
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Ben Revere reached base on an error, advanced on a wild pitch and then scored the winning run on a passed ball and a throwing error caused by Cameron Maybin's walk-off strikeout.
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Yeah, Revere could scarcely believe it either.
To learn about our efforts to improve the accessibility and usability of our website, please visit our. Ohtani, Bour lead Angels to 5-3 win, series sweep of Dodgers. Shohei Ohtani and Justin Bour homered off Kenta Maeda in a five-run first inning, and the Los Angeles Angels hung on to sweep the two-game Freeway Series with a 5-3 victory over the majors-leading Dodgers on Tuesday night.
'That's the game of baseball, I guess?' the Los Angeles Angels outfielder said.
The latest chapter of the Freeway Faceoff ended in singularly weird fashion -- and in 3-2 victory for the Angels over the Dodgers on Wednesday night.
Revere scored from second base when Yasmani Grandal -- a hero moments earlier for his two-out tying homer -- lost control of Pedro Baez's third strike.
Grandal chased it to the backstop, but then put his throw to first over Chase Utley's head and into right field.
'It's a good thing we've got the speed here to cause havoc on the basepaths,' Revere said.
Everything about Revere's extremely unearned run was weird -- starting with the error by Chris Taylor, who was filling in for injured Corey Seager at shortstop. Revere came home on a pitch that wasn't what the Dodgers had called, which was why Grandal mishandled it.
'We haven't lost any games like that,' Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. 'Unfortunately, things like that are going to happen. That's a tough way to lose.'
The Angels have taken two of the first three games in the annual interleague rivalry series, which concludes Thursday in Anaheim.
After Grandal homered off Cam Bedrosian (2-0), the Angels rallied against Baez (2-1) to send the NL leaders to just their third loss in 20 games.
Grandal said he double-clutched his throw to first because he was worried about Revere's speed. The catcher went from hero to goat with similarly alarming speed, but he was sanguine about the weirdest ninth inning in a long while for the Dodgers.
'That's the beauty of this game: You've got to be three or four steps ahead,' Grandal said. 'I didn't see that scenario coming. I saw just about every other scenario coming. ... As a catcher, you need to be 20 steps ahead of everything. I guess today I was only 19.'
Andrelton Simmons hit a two-run homer in the sixth for the Angels.
Trayce Thompson hit his first homer since July 3, 2016, in the eighth inning, but the Dodgers were down to their final strike before Grandal dramatically tied it.
BIG START
Alex Meyer pitched six innings of scoreless one-hit ball for the Angels, but was denied his fourth victory. Meyer walked five of the Dodgers' first 12 batters, but settled in after Grandal's single to open the fourth, retiring his final eight batters. He regretted his early control struggles, calling them 'frustrating, but part of the process.'
RESILIENT RYU
Hyun-Jin Ryu yielded seven hits while pitching into the sixth inning of another solid start for the Dodgers. Ryu nearly came out of the game in the fourth when Simmons' liner hit him in the left foot. Ryu stayed in, but gave up five hits to his final eight batters.
RIVALRY RESUMES
After splitting the first two games of the Freeway Series in Chavez Ravine earlier this week, the Dodgers had their usual healthy turnout of fans in Orange County. Dozens of those Dodgers fans in the elevated right field stands even unveiled a large blue banner with their LA logo spanning several rows of seats, although it quickly disappeared back into the crowd.
The crowd of 44,669 at Angel Stadium was the second-largest since the building's renovation in 1998.
TRAINER'S ROOM
Dodgers: Seager was out of the starting lineup for the fifth straight game due to a hamstring strain, but Roberts expects the star to return Thursday or Friday. ... LHP Scott Kazmir threw a bullpen session in Anaheim.
Angels: Closer Bud Norris will throw a rehab inning in the minors Thursday. He has been out for eight days with a sore right knee. ... RHP Matt Shoemaker played catch. He's coming back slowly from a strained forearm.
UP NEXT
Dodgers: Clayton Kershaw (11-2, 2.47 ERA) makes his 10th career start against the Angels, who are hitting a collective .202 against the undisputed ace of Southern California.
Angels: JC Ramirez (7-5, 4.38 ERA) is coming off a strong start in Boston. He has two perfect career relief appearances against the Dodgers, retiring all 11 batters he faced.
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LOS ANGELES (ESPN.com news services) -- Jered Weaver and Jose Arredondo combined to no-hit the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday night -- and it still wasn't good enough for the Los Angeles Angels.
The Dodgers became the fifth team in modern major league history to win a game in which they didn't get a hit, defeating the Angels 1-0. Weaver's error on a slow roller led to an unearned run by the Dodgers in the fifth.
Weaver downplayed the fact the Angels lost without giving up a hit.
'Any loss, no matter what, is tough,' he said. 'I'm sure you guys are going to eat this up a lot more than I am. I don't call it a no-hitter for me. I only went six innings.'
The Dodgers' Joe Torre thought it might've been his weirdest win as a manager.
'I'd really have to reach down, and I don't really remember too much, but that's about as bizarre as you can get,' he said.
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With the Angels trailing in the interleague game at Dodger Stadium, Weaver was pulled for a pinch-hitter in the seventh inning after throwing 97 pitches. Arredondo pitched the next two innings.
Because the Dodgers didn't have to bat in the ninth, the game doesn't qualify as a no-hitter. It was only the fifth such game since 1900, and first since Boston's Matt Young in 1992, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
The Angels' Torii Hunter said he has never been involved in such a strange game.
'Never,' he said, 'not even in Little League.'
The Dodgers' Chad Billingsley (7-7) scattered three hits over seven innings, then Jonathan Broxton and Takashi Saito shut out the Angels for the next two innings.
Weaver (7-8) was victimized by his own fielding error with one out in the fifth inning that allowed Matt Kemp to reach first.
Kemp's spinning squibber rolled to the right of the mound and Weaver rushed toward first base to grab the ball, but bobbled it. The ruling on whether it was a hit or an error was a close one, since Weaver would have had to field the ball cleanly -- and first baseman Casey Kotchman was off the bag. Official scorer Don Hartack ruled it an error.
'I believe if he just picked it up with his bare hand and flipped it, he gets him by a good step and a half,' Hartack said. 'So my thinking was, it really wasn't a bang-bang play. I looked at the replay once and it looked like Kemp was a good seven steps away, so my thinking was Weaver had plenty of time to make the out.'
Kemp completely agreed with the scoring.
'I hit it off the end of the bat and it had a little funky English on it,' he said. 'He could have made the play, but he just dropped the ball. It was an error. I mean, if they'd have given me a hit, I'd have been happy. But it was an error by far.'
Kemp stole second and continued to third on catcher Jeff Mathis' throwing error, then scored on Blake DeWitt's sacrifice fly.
Weaver struck out six, walked three and hit a batter in his six innings. Chone Figgins pinch-hit for him in the seventh with two outs and a runner on second, but grounded out.
Baseball's other no-hit losers were Andy Hawkins of the Yankees in 1990, Steve Barber and Stu Miller of Baltimore in 1967, and Ken Johnson of Houston in 1964.
Billingsley struck out seven and walked three.
The Angels, shut out for the second consecutive night, had six hits but didn't get a runner as far as third base. They had runners on first and second against Saito with two out in the ninth, but he struck out pinch-hitter Reggie Willits to earn his 12th save.
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Game notes
Dodgers bullpen coach Ken Howell missed his second game because of a foot infection. Jim Slaton, the pitching coach for Triple-A Las Vegas, is filling in for Howell and will accompany the team on the next road trip as well. ... Guerrero's hitting streak for the Angels ended at 16. ... Dodgers RHP Brad Penny threw another bullpen session. He is scheduled to face hitters in his next one, possible Tuesday or Wednesday. ... Angels infielder Maicer Izturis started at 3B for the third time this season after missing four games with tightness in his right hamstring. ... Dodgers RHP Hiroki Kuroda threw 45 pitches in a simulated game. If he comes out of it with no aftereffects, he will rejoin the rotation to pitch Wednesday night at Houston... Dodgers Rafael Furcal, Andruw Jones and Nomar Garciaparra are scheduled to begin minor league rehab assignments with Triple-A Las Vegas on Monday. Furcal and Garciaparra could be back in the Dodgers' lineup next weekend in San Francisco.