Dodgers hit three home runs, hold Angels to two hits in rout

Andy Pages got a sunflower seed shower.Then, he delivered another one himself.In a 6-0 win over the Angels on Friday night, the Dodgers’ third-straight victory was keyed by two big swings.Pages had the first, ambushing a 3-0 fastball from Angels starter Jack Kochanowicz for a three-run homer in the top of the fourth inning.

Moments later, Max Muncy delivered the other, crushing an 0-2 mistake that Kochanowicz left over the plate to make it back-to-back long balls with a solo drive to right.As Pages returned to the dugout following his trot around the bases, he got a customary seed shower from teammate Teoscar Hernández –– who has made the celebration a staple since arriving in Los Angeles three years ago.But with Hernández on deck when Muncy went deep, it was Pages’ turn to handle the honors, grabbing a bag of seeds himself and tossing them in Muncy’s face as he came back off the field.“He’s going to have my job when I’m not here,” Hernández joked of Pages’ seed-throwing form.“So it is getting better.”The scene represented an uplifting turn on what started as a dark day for the Dodgers (27-18), who placed scheduled starting pitcher Blake Snell on the injured list pregame with loose bodies in his elbow that could require surgery.Snell’s injury is the third the Dodgers have suffered to a star pitcher in the last month (after Edwin Díaz and Tyler Glasnow).

It leaves them concerningly thin on depth as they try to emerge from a month-long slump.“It seems like every year we go through it,” manager Dave Roberts said of the sudden deluge of pitching injuries.“What I have learned is, we get through it.”The easiest way to do so this time: More offensive performances such as Friday’s. Thanks to a third home run in the sixth inning from Hernández –– who snapped a month-long homer drought by driving a two-run blast the other way –– the Dodgers eclipsed the six-run mark for only the fifth time in their last 23 games.It gave the...