{"id":637430,"date":"2026-03-22T16:44:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T16:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/637430\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T16:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T16:44:14","slug":"dodgers-news-freeway-series-history-vs-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/637430\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers news: Freeway Series history vs. Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Now that the Dodgers are done with the Arizona portion of spring training, they are back home in Southern California for another decades-long tradition \u2014 the Freeway Series against the Angels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Freeway Series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.truebluela.com\/2018\/3\/25\/17150546\/freeway-series-history-dodgers-angels\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">began in 1962 with a single game in Palm Springs<\/a> before settling into the mostly annual routine of games in Los Angeles and Anaheim ever since. The two teams meeting was a novelty for a long time, as National League and American League teams did not meet except for the World Series for most of baseball history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">But the Dodgers and Angels have played each other in the regular season every year since 1997, which removes a lot of the shine the exhibition Freeway Series. Given the few breaks in the spring training matchups \u2014 no Freeway Series from 1965-68, 1972, 1980, and 2000-02 \u2014 there have been more years the Dodgers and Angels have played in the regular season (29) than years when the exhibition Freeway Series was their only matchup (27).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Knowing the Dodgers and Angels will meet six times during the regular season \u2014 May 15-17 in Anaheim, and June 5-7 in Los Angeles \u2014 means folks won\u2019t really <a href=\"https:\/\/www.truebluela.com\/2018\/3\/27\/17170886\/dodgers-angels-freeway-series-finale-pipes-backed-up-game\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">be bursting at the seams<\/a> for these three exhibition games. But in case you were wondering, here are the stats for the history of the Freeway Series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Dodgers are 60-79-6 all-time in the exhibition Freeway Series, with the last tie coming in 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Angels won that first game in Palm Springs, 6-5. The Dodgers are 33-37-3 at Dodger Stadium in these games, and 27-41-3 in Anaheim. Here are the splits by decade:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Sunday night\u2019s game is at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, with Monday and Tuesday at Dodger Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now that the Dodgers are done with the Arizona portion of spring training, they are back home in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2406],"tags":[5,39,40445,1165,4332,4333,774,57,3224,4331,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-637430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-dodgers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-dodgers","10":"tag-dodgers-history-records","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-la-dodgers","13":"tag-ladodgers","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","16":"tag-losangeles","17":"tag-losangelesdodgers","18":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116273837823308486","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}