While a raucous Angel Stadium crowd exchanged chants of "Let's go Dodgers!" and "Let's go Angels!" Monday night, Southern California's baseball rivals spent the evening exchanging jabs and counter-punches, the Angels answering Dodgers scoring rallies in the second, fifth and seventh innings with runs of their own.
The corner men — Mike Scioscia of the Angels and Don Mattingly of the Dodgers — waged their own strategic battle, each manager taking advantage of expanded September rosters to begin matching up early, an approach that resulted in 16 pitchers being used, the most ever in a Dodgers-Angels game and tied for second most in a nine-inning game in major league history.