{"id":232784,"date":"2026-03-23T16:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T16:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/232784\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T16:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T16:52:07","slug":"dodgers-angels-kick-off-freeway-series-in-anaheim-la-dodgers-win-first-game-13-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/232784\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers, Angels kick off Freeway Series in Anaheim; LA Dodgers win first game 13-5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">ANAHEIM, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; The L.A. Dodgers and Angels opened their 3-game Freeway Series Sunday in Anaheim, facing off with Opening Day now just days away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A home run from Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez started the scoring for the Dodgers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In the end, the Dodgers beat the Angels 13-5. The series now shifts to Dodger Stadium for Monday and Tuesday&#8217;s games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Dodgers have the best record in the Cactus League, 19-8. The Angels have the fourth-best record, 16-14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Angels lead the series that began in 1962, 78-59, with five games ending in ties. The Dodgers won two of the three games in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Spring training games that are tied after nine innings are customarily called once the day&#8217;s scheduled pitchers have been used.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The back-to-back World Series champion Dodgers will open regular season Thursday against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Dodger Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Angels will open the regular season Thursday in Houston. Their home opener will be April 3 against the Seattle Mariners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">City News Service contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; The L.A. Dodgers and Angels opened their 3-game Freeway Series Sunday in Anaheim, facing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[105588,163,165,164],"class_list":["post-232784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-105588","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}