Los Angeles Angels<\/a> took place, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said in the pregame that he needed to see Monday afternoon’s starter, Roki Sasaki, in \u201ccompete mode.\u201d<\/p>\nWell, Sasaki had a nightmare first inning to say the least.<\/p>\n
He began his outing by plunking Zach Neto on the forearm, and a groundout by Mike Trout led to a Miguel Rojas error.<\/p>\n
Sasaki walked the next two batters, Nolan Schanuel and Jorge Soler, to drive in the Angels’ first run.<\/p>\n
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It snowballed even further as Sasaki walked Yo\u00e1n Moncada for his third straight walk of the inning. By that time, Roberts had seen enough.<\/p>\n
Roberts walked to the mound and pulled Sasaki after throwing 30 pitches, 13 of which were for strikes, and without recording a single out.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, this hasn’t been the first time, and wouldn’t be the last time this spring, that Roberts has had to make that walk to the mound for Sasaki.<\/p>\n
Ronan Kopp relieved Sasaki of his duties in the meantime. But he was shelled for two runs after Josh Lowe singled in a pair to extend the Angels’ lead, 4-0.<\/p>\n
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Sasaki came back to pitch the next two innings and they were a slight upgrade over his first inning of work, but nothing too extrvagent.<\/p>\n
Roberts pulled the plug on him again in the bottom of the third and recorded a final line score of two innings, giving up four earned runs on six walks, striking out two, and giving up no hits.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m glad that my weaknesses showed up during spring training, so for the season, I guess I have no choice but to go at it with a fresh mindset again,” Sasaki said through his interpreter to the media.<\/p>\n
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The Angels scored two more runs in the fourth all way via the sacrifice fly by Soler and Schanuel, extending the lead to 6-0.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles created a slight jolt in their half of the fourth, with Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez and Rojas hitting home runs, cutting the deficit to 6-3.<\/p>\n
The Dodgers picked up another run the following inning with James Tibbs III earning a walk with the bases loaded. The Angels returned the favor as Josh Lowe singled in run No. 7.<\/p>\n
The bats came alive in a huge way for the Dodgers as Dalton Rushing would smack an RBI double to right field to cut the deficit to 7-6. Alex Call followed suit with an RBI double of his own and tied the ball game 7-7.<\/p>\n
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Unfortunately for both parties, they were unable to score one more run in the ninth, so this game ended in a Spring Training tie.<\/p>\n
All that to end in a tie.<\/p>\n
Anyways, the series finale is on Tuesday with Shohei Ohtani taking the mound before the season is set to kick off.<\/p>\n
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