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Dodgers-Angels Ends in Tie Despite Poor Start From Roki Sasaki

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LOS ANGELES — For the first time since game five of the 2025 World Series, the Los Angeles Dodgers played a game at Dodger Stadium.

Albeit not a game that counts towards the regular season, it's nonetheless something to cheer about. It turned out to be an uncanny outcome as this game ended in a 7-7 tie.  

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Before game two of this exhibition Freeway Series against the Los Angeles Angels took place, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said in the pregame that he needed to see Monday afternoon's starter, Roki Sasaki, in “compete mode.”

Well, Sasaki had a nightmare first inning to say the least. 

He began his outing by plunking Zach Neto on the forearm, and a groundout by Mike Trout led to a Miguel Rojas error. 

Sasaki walked the next two batters, Nolan Schanuel and Jorge Soler, to drive in the Angels' first run. 

It snowballed even further as Sasaki walked Yoán Moncada for his third straight walk of the inning. By that time, Roberts had seen enough. 

Roberts walked to the mound and pulled Sasaki after throwing 30 pitches, 13 of which were for strikes, and without recording a single out. 

Unfortunately, this hasn't been the first time, and wouldn't be the last time this spring, that Roberts has had to make that walk to the mound for Sasaki.  

Ronan Kopp relieved Sasaki of his duties in the meantime. But he was shelled for two runs after Josh Lowe singled in a pair to extend the Angels' lead, 4-0. 

Sasaki came back to pitch the next two innings and they were a slight upgrade over his first inning of work, but nothing too extrvagent. 

Roberts pulled the plug on him again in the bottom of the third and recorded a final line score of two innings, giving up four earned runs on six walks, striking out two, and giving up no hits. 

“I'm glad that my weaknesses showed up during spring training, so for the season, I guess I have no choice but to go at it with a fresh mindset again," Sasaki said through his interpreter to the media. 

The Angels scored two more runs in the fourth all way via the sacrifice fly by Soler and Schanuel, extending the lead to 6-0. 

Los Angeles created a slight jolt in their half of the fourth, with Teoscar Hernández and Rojas hitting home runs, cutting the deficit to 6-3. 

The Dodgers picked up another run the following inning with James Tibbs III earning a walk with the bases loaded. The Angels returned the favor as Josh Lowe singled in run No. 7. 

The bats came alive in a huge way for the Dodgers as Dalton Rushing would smack an RBI double to right field to cut the deficit to 7-6. Alex Call followed suit with an RBI double of his own and tied the ball game 7-7. 

Unfortunately for both parties, they were unable to score one more run in the ninth, so this game ended in a Spring Training tie. 

All that to end in a tie. 

Anyways, the series finale is on Tuesday with Shohei Ohtani taking the mound before the season is set to kick off. 

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