"We'll get together Thursday for a little workout and get on the plane to Atlanta. "Having five days, I think that probably helps a little more," Angels manager Phil Nevin said. Marsh homered in the seventh, and Shohei Ohtani had two singles for the 23rd multi-hit game of his second All-Star season. Freeman called Urías "the biggest snub on the All-Star team."Ī yawning chasm separates these two franchises: The Dodgers are powering toward their 10th consecutive playoff appearance with a wonderful roster and a fruitful farm system, while the incredibly top-heavy Angels (39-53) will need a massive second-half turnaround to avoid their seventh straight losing season and eighth straight non-playoff campaign.īrandon Marsh hit a late-inning homer to break up the Dodgers' shutout bid for the second straight night, but the Angels flopped into the break with their 12th loss in 14 games. One night after Clayton Kershaw took a perfect game into the eighth inning, Julio Urías (8-6) had eight strikeouts over seven innings of five-hit ball while improving to 5-0 in his last six starts. Sometimes you don't want the All-Star break to come, but I feel like we could use the rest." We've been playing pretty good baseball of late.
"Sixty wins is a lot of wins in a first half. "Pretty special first half for the Dodgers," said Freeman, who has five multi-hit performances in his last six games since being left off the NL All-Star team. Thanks to a rare Sunday off from MLB's schedulers, this victory was also their final game before at least five Dodgers take the field in Chavez Ravine for the All-Star Game on Tuesday night.
It's on us, but I think we've got the talent to do that."įreeman hit an RBI milestone with his first career homer at Angel Stadium while the Dodgers finished the first half at 60-30. "It's not easy to win night in and night out in this game, but I think we have the roster to do that. "Because we're good, and we have a lot of good players," Turner said. They've won 60 games before the All-Star break for the fifth time in franchise history, and nothing suggests the Dodgers will slow down before October. Max Muncy hit a three-run homer moments after Turner's two-run shot in the third inning for the Dodgers, who have won 15 of 17. Trea Turner hit two homers and drove in three runs, Freddie Freeman got his 1,000th career RBI in his childhood ballpark, and the Dodgers rolled into the All-Star break with a 7-1 victory and a combined 22-3 demolition of their nearest rivals.