Angels Stun Dodgers 12-3 In 'Freeway Series' Opener

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Dan Haren pitched 5 2-3 solid innings in his final spring tuneup, Mark Trumbo hit a three-run homer, and the Angels beat the Dodgers 12-3 Monday night in the opener of a three-game series that will end the exhibition schedule for both Los Angeles teams.

Haren (3-0) threw 94 pitches, striking out five and walking none while finishing his spring with a 2.05 ERA in six starts.

The three-time All-Star right-hander is scheduled to make his season debut next Saturday against Kansas City.

Last year, Haren was 16-10 with a 3.17 ERA, threw a career-high 238 1-3 innings and had an AL-best strikeout-to-walk ratio of 5.82.

Albert Pujols was 0 for 3 with a bases-loaded walk in his first game at Angel Stadium in a Halos uniform. He left the World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals to sign a 10-year, $240 million contract.

The Angels grabbed the lead with a three-run third against reliever Todd Coffey (0-2), whose walk to Pujols forced home the game's first run.

One out later, Torii Hunter drove in two more with a broken-bat single against the right-hander, who was charged with three runs, three hits and two walks in two-thirds of an inning.

Jamey Wright, a 17-year veteran who will be used in middle relief by Los Angeles after spending last season with Seattle, started the game and allowed one hit and no walks over two scoreless innings with three strikeouts.

Dodgers center fielder Matt Kemp, who won his second Gold Glove last season, robbed Trumbo of extra bases with a diving catch in left-center to end the second inning and strand a runner. Another extra-base bid by Trumbo in the sixth was run down by Andre Ethier in the warning track. But in the seventh, Trumbo drove the first pitch he saw from Kenley Jansen into the lower left field seats for his fifth homer of the spring and an 8-2 lead.

The Dodgers got their first run in the fourth on an RBI double by former Angel Juan Rivera. But Pujols, a two-time Gold Glove first baseman, prevented another in the fifth when he charged Dee Gordon's safety-squeeze bunt and threw out Juan Uribe.

Notes: Both teams mutually agreed that all three of these games will go a full nine innings, even if the home team is leading after 8 1-2. ... In 26 1-3 innings this spring, Haren struck out 25 and walked only two batters — Travis Hafner and reigning NL MVP Ryan Braun. ... Dodgers LHP Ted Lilly, who will begin his 14th big league season on the DL because of a stiff neck, threw close to 70 pitches in a simulated game. He's scheduled to throw a bullpen session on April 8, and another one six days later. "We accomplished what we wanted to do — build his pitch count up and get him up five or six times," manager Don Mattingly said. "You could tell he got a little gassed at the end, but I think it was good because he got to face a bunch of different guys."

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