Dodgers 15 Angels 2: Dodgers score a season high to turn an early pitchers’ duel into a laugher

Alex Campos 05/16/2026 Game Recaps Leave A Comment

The Dodgers won their fourth-consecutive game and secured a series win against the Angels with a 15-2 win. It started as a pitchers’ duel between Justin Wrobleski and Jose Soriano, but got pretty off the rails in the last few innings for a Dodger blowout.

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The Dodgers got on the board in the first four batters off Soriano. Shohei Ohtani led the game off with a walk and Mookie Betts singled him to third. After Freddie Freeman lined out, Will Smith hit a sac fly for a 1-0 lead.

Wrobleski and Soriano exchanged zeroes through six innings, each working around some traffic and Wrobleski getting a huge assist from Andy Pages in center. Jorge Soler led off the fourth with a double and moved to third on a groundout before Nolan Schanuel lined a ball into the right-center gap.

Soriano settled in after the first inning run, as he only allowed one baserunner (a walk) as he worked into the sixth. The wheels fell off incredibly fast in the sixth for Soriano. He got the top of the order for a third time and got Ohtani to ground out to lead off the inning, but completely lost his control after that. He issued five-pitch walks to Betts and Freeman before hitting Smith with a pitch to load the bases. Andy Pages drew a six-pitch walk (that would have been a five-pitch walk but he swung at a pitch in the left handed batters’ box), and Max Muncy drew another five-pitch walk to score two more Dodger runs and chase Soriano from the game with the bases still loaded. Chase Silseth came on in relief and hit Teoscar Hernandez to score another Dodger run and keep the bases loaded for Alex Call, who snuck a grounder through the infield for two more runs and a 6-0 lead.

Please don’t call me. I’m a millennial, you will get sent to voicemail. Insane final line for Soriano: 5 1/3 innings, one hit, six runs, six strikeouts, six walks.

Wrobleski didn’t exactly deliver a shutdown inning in the bottom of the sixth. Zach Neto led off the inning with a grounder that Muncy backhanded and threw to first, but Freeman couldn’t handle the hop for an infield single. Soler doubled to put runners on second and third, and Jo Adell doubled to plate both runners. Those were the two hardest-hit balls of the day to that point (Soler’s was 109.4 MPH, Adell’s was 106). Wrobo struck Jose Peraza out and got Schanuel and Logan O’Hoppe to fly out to keep the Dodgers up 6-2.

His final line: Six innings, two runs, five strikeouts, one walk. A much-needed six innings after a bullpen game yesterday and with Roki Sasaki on the mound tomorrow afternoon.

The Dodgers added on in the eighth after Muncy led off with a swinging bunt single against the shift. Call drew a one-out walk, and Ohtani lined weird ass should-have-been ground-rule double that was allowed to play on and turned into a triple+error pseudo-inside-the-park-homer? Yes I use more dashes when I’m confused, no I am not AI.

Very glad this was a blowout or the takes would be flying on this one. Orel discussed the rule behind this ruling having to do with the netting being even with the wall so it’s treated as an extension of the wall?

Betts followed whatever that was with a more-traditional homer, his second since returning from the IL.

They added on even more in the ninth. Smith walked and Pages singled to start the inning, and Muncy hit a grounder back to Alek Manoah. It should have been an easy double play, but Manoah threw the ball into center for another Dodger run. Teo hit a grounder to third and Vaughn Grissom made an incredible diving catch, but didn’t have a play and another run scored. Hyeseong Kim drew a walk to re-load the bases, and Ohtani scorched a double to clear the bases and make it 15-2.

The Angels brought second baseman Adam Frazier in to pitch for the third time this season, and he allowed a pinch-hit single to Santiago Espinal before getting Dalton Rushing to bounce into a double play to mercifully end the top of the ninth.

While the Dodgers went off against the Angel bullpen, their bullpen handled business yet again. Blake Treinen and his military appreciation hat threw a scoreless seventh and Wyatt Mills worked around a pair of walks for a scoreless eighth, thanks to another nice play by Pages.

Charlie Barnes came on in the ninth and allowed a leadoff single, but closed it out on a pitch that was definitely out of the zone. Shoutout the Angels for burning all their challenges.

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The Dodgers move to 28-18 on the season and have a chance to sweep tomorrow. Sasaki gets the ball for the Dodgers and Grayson Rodriguez comes off the IL to make his Angel debut for Anaheim.

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I've been writing about the Dodgers since I graduated from Long Beach State, where I covered the Dirtbags in my senior year. I'm either very good or very bad at puns.
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