Angels 5 Dodgers 3
Sometimes stat lines don’t tell the whole story. On a warm night in Angel Stadium against the visiting crosstown rivals, a pitcher’s duel between upstart Griffin Canning and Cy Young frontrunner Hyun-Jin Ryu was well worth the price of admission for all the wretched blue-clad attendees.
Canning threw 6 innings and allowed 3 runs. One would call that a quality start, but it is the kind of quality start that makes that one dude in the group call out, “Well, is a 4.50 ERA really that high of a quality?