ANAHEIM, Calif. — Kenta Maeda, Ross Stripling and Luis Avilan combined for six hitless innings, but the Los Angeles Angels used a three-run seventh inning to beat the Dodgers 3-2 on Thursday night in the opener of the Freeway Series.
Maeda began with three perfect innings, Stripling tossed two hitless innings and then Avilan pitched a perfect sixth.
The Angels' Yunel Escobar singled against Brandon Morrow to lead off the seventh, and C.J. Cron later singled in a pair to make it 2-1. Cameron Maybin added an RBI single.
The Dodgers opened the scoring with an unearned run in the third after third baseman Escobar threw away Enrique Hernandez's grounder for a two-base error.