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

The Los Angeles Angels blanked the Los Angeles Dodgers 4-0 on March 5, 2024, at Camelback Ranch, handing the home side a shutout loss from which the DiamondIQ model's estimate of a Dodgers win fell from a pre-game 54 percent all the way to zero. The Angels offense came to life incrementally, scoring one run in the fourth, two in the fifth, and one more in the seventh to build an insurmountable cushion against a Dodgers pitching staff that ultimately allowed nine hits while committing no errors of their own. Los Angeles finished with nine hits and two errors against seven for the Dodgers.

The decisive sequence began in the fourth inning when Miguel Sanó lined a single off Daniel Hudson that shifted win probability 10.3 percent in the Angels' favor, the single largest positive swing of the game. The Angels then compounded the damage in the fifth, as Aaron Hicks drew a walk off Nabil Crismatt for a gain of 8.8 percent, and Nolan Schanuel followed with a triple off the same pitcher worth another 7.8 percent. Those plays effectively buried the Dodgers' chances while the Angels' own baserunning cost them slightly in the third, when Schanuel grounded into a double play off Bobby Miller to swing probability 9.5 percent against them. Jo Adell added a double off Justin Wilson in the seventh for a 7.3 percent swing to close out the Angels' scoring.

Aaron Hicks led all batters by WPA at plus 12.8 percent with a RE24 of plus 1.1, the strongest individual offensive contribution of the game. Sanó finished at plus 7.9 percent and Adell at plus 7.1 percent. On the mound, Victor Mederos was the top pitching contributor at plus 10.9 percent, followed by Bobby Miller at plus 8.2 percent and Chase Silseth at plus 6.4 percent. The DiamondIQ model leans toward crediting the Angels' middle-inning burst as the structural turning point, with the Sanó single and the Hicks-Schanuel fifth-inning combination together representing the core of a commanding road performance.