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 Second baseman Howie Kendrick homered against his ex-mates and
Greinke delivered another solid performance, leading the Los Angeles
Dodgers to a 5-3 victory over the Los Angeles Angels before a
sellout crowd of 53,380 at Dodger Stadium.
Greinke started instead of Clayton Kershaw, who rested his sore hip
for an extra day. Grienke allowed two runs on five hits with eight
strikeouts and a walk in eight innings. Only right fielder Kole
Calhoun (three) and center fielder Mike Trout (two) recorded hits
off Greinke.
"Stuff was pretty sharp," said Greinke, who has won five consecutive
starts and is 5-0 with an 0.31 ERA in his last eight outings.
Greinke continues to carry the major leagues' lowest ERA at 1.41.
"Pretty good slider. Just one hit. (Mike) Trout got a hit off a good
one, so that was impressive. But I had a couple of mistakes to those
guys. Calhoun's first two hits were bad pitches and same thing with
Trout."
Trout, who went 3-for-4, drove in all three Angels runs and was a
double shy of the cycle, smacked his 32nd home run in the ninth off
Kenley Jansen before the closer earned his 18th save despite giving
up a run and hitting a batter.
Greinke (10-2), who had his streak of 45 2/3 scoreless innings
snapped Sunday against the New York Mets, allowed two earned runs at
Dodger Stadium for first time since April 29 against the San
Francisco Giants.
Kershaw (8-6, 2.51 ERA) is scheduled to return Saturday, when he
will face Angels left-hander Andrew Heaney (5-0, 1.79 ERA), who the
Dodgers dealt for Kendrick during the off-season.
Third baseman Alex Guerrero also went deep -- his 11th home run this
season -- for the Dodgers (58-45), who defeated the Angels (55-47)
for the fourth straight time. The Angels have dropped their last
four games overall and seven of their past eight.
Despite the setbacks, Dodger manager Don Mattingly said the Angels
remain one of the best teams in baseball.
"That's a dangerous club," Mattingly said. "I think the biggest key
is to try to keep guys off base."
"We've had a tough week," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "We
haven't put together a lot of parts of the game. When we've scored
runs, we haven't pitched. When we've pitched, we haven't scored
runs. It's just a tough streak right now."
Angels starter Hector Santiago had a rough outing, surrendering five
runs on a season-high nine hits with three strikeouts and a walk in
five-plus innings. Santiago (7-5) also hit a batter.
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"I thought Hector was a little indecisive," Scioscia said. "It
looked like he was searching not only trying to find his release
point, to execute pitches and repeat his delivery, which he has been
doing very well this year, (but) searching to put together his game
plan. He had a lot of trouble putting pitches together. He just
wasn't quite as crisp as we've seen him, and we paid a price for
it."
Kendrick parked a 1-0 off-speed pitch from Santiago into the seats
in center for his eighth home run of the season in his first at-bat
against his former club in the first inning. Kendrick was
unavailable for comment after the game.
Trout's RBI triple brought home Calhoun, who reached on a single, to
tie the score at 1-1 in the fourth.
"The triple was a bad pitch," said Greinke, who went 6-2 for the
Angels in 13 games after being traded by the Milwaukee Brewers
during the 2012 season. He is only 2-5 in 11 games (10 starts)
against the Angels.
In the bottom of the inning, Guerrero followed catcher Yasmani
Grandal's infield single with a two-run homer to left for a 3-1
Dodgers advantage.
The Dodgers added two runs in the fifth on RBI singles by right
fielder Yasiel Puig and Grandal for a 5-1 cushion.
NOTES: The Dodgers activated LHP Alex Wood, RHP Jim Johnson and LHP
Luis Avilan, optioned RHP Mike Bolsinger, Zach Lee and Chin-hui Tsao
to Triple-A Oklahoma City and traded 1B Michael Morse and cash to
the Pittsburgh Pirates for OF Jose Tabata. The club also placed 3B
Justin Turner on the 15-day disabled list with a right thigh skin
infection. ... The Angels put LHP C.J. Wilson on the 15-day disabled
list (retroactive to July 29) with left elbow inflammation. The team
also optioned INF/OF Efren Navarro to the Triple-A Salt Lake Bees
and recalled RHP Drew Rucinski from the Bees.
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