Some were hit hard, firm line drives and loud fly balls scattered around the park. Some rolled along the ground, weak contact that kept on finding the right spots. Once they started, they didn’t stop. Batter after batter. Hit after hit. Run scored after run scored. A Dodgers team that in recent weeks had struggled to string together hits, failed to manufacture runs and sputtered at the plate suddenly snapped back to life on Saturday at Angel Stadium. In the fourth inning, they scored eight runs. In the fifth, they added five more. In the end, the Dodgers’ 14-11 win over the Angels probably should have never gotten as close as it did. After the early offensive explosion and Clayton Kershaw’s scoreless five-inning start, they led by 13, only to watch the Angels score four runs in the sixth and seven runs in the seventh to make it a game again. But the Dodgers (18-16) eventually pulled through, their bullpen doing just enough to snap a four-game losing streak and an extended 4-14 skid.“We needed a win, ” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “There was a lot more good that came out of tonight than bad, and ultimately, we won a ballgame. ”It took a few innings for the Dodgers to heat up, with Angels starter Dylan Bundy retiring eight of the first nine batters — the lone baserunner reached on an error — seemingly with ease. Once the lineup turned over for a second time in the fourth inning, however, the Dodgers got on a roll. Mookie Betts led off with a walk. Corey Seager laced a single into center. And Max Muncy lined a single to right to score the game’s first run. More soon followed. After a brief pause during the next at-bat — the result of Angels third baseman Jose Rojas inadvertently tagging Betts below the belt after fielding a ball, the two laughing about it as Betts took a moment to gather himself — Will Smith kept the line moving with an RBI single. Chris Taylor loaded the bases with a knock into left. Then Matt Beaty hammered a double to right, making it 4-0 with one of only three extra-base hits the Dodgers hit all night.“On the offensive side, there were so many good things, ” Roberts said. “A lot of guys got on track … Kept the line moving. Some big two-out hits. Just across the board, some tough at-bats. ”Beaty’s double marked the end of Bundy’s day, but Angels reliever Steve Cishek could escape the frame. After intentionally walking Gavin Lux to juice the bags again, the next three Dodgers all hit soft ground balls: Austin Barnes a roller to second, Betts a tapper the other way, and Seager a swinging bunt up the third base line. None had an exit velocity harder than 80. 9 mph, nor an expected batting average above. 200, according to MLB’s Statcast system. Yet all three resulted in a single, leading to four more runs in an inning that saw 14 batters come to the plate. The fifth inning unfolded similarly.
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