Los Angeles Dodgers at Los Angeles Angels: Final Score & Recap

The Los Angeles Dodgers and Los Angeles Angels played to a 7-7 tie on February 24, 2024, at Tempe Diablo Stadium in a spring training contest that the DiamondIQ model opened with the Angels holding a 54% win probability. Through seven innings the game remained tightly controlled, with neither club doing significant damage, but the eighth inning unraveled into one of the more dramatic sequences of the spring, ultimately leaving both teams deadlocked and the model's final win probability at 0% for either side.

The eighth inning decided everything. Ryan Ward delivered the single most impactful play of the afternoon, a double off Michael Darrell-Hicks that shifted win probability by +37.8 percentage points in the Dodgers' favor and ignited a five-run Dodgers half-inning. Austin Gauthier drew a walk off Darrell-Hicks later in the frame, adding another +15.4 points, before Jose Ramos capped the Dodgers' surge with a home run off Joel Hurtado worth +14.7 points. The Angels, however, answered immediately in the bottom half, as Jason Martin launched a home run off Lucas Wepf that swung win probability +37.4 points toward Los Angeles and tied the game at seven. Willie Calhoun's flyout to end the bottom of the ninth off Franklin De La Paz, costing the Angels 19.5 points of win probability, sealed the stalemate.

Ward finished as the top overall performer by DiamondIQ metrics, posting a +35.6% WPA and +2.2 RE24, while Martin matched the moment with a +34.8% WPA and +1.5 RE24 on the strength of his tying blast. Ramos contributed meaningfully as well at +22.7% WPA and +1.4 RE24. On the mound, Nick Jones led all pitchers with a +13.5% WPA, followed by Travis MacGregor at +7.2% and Guillo Zuñiga at +6.4%.