Giants avoid sweep against Dodgers, Athletics narrowly defeat Angels

LOS ANGELES – A team wearing blue won all three games of the weekend series at Dodger Stadium, but the Giants managed to avoid a sweep at the hands of their rivals.

It’s paradoxical to picture the Giants donning the color of a division foe, but that’s exactly what they did en route to a 4-1 Father’s Day victory in their series finale against the Dodgers.

Armed with blue-tinted caps and assorted baby blue accessories to support the Prostate Cancer Foundation, manager Bruce Bochy said he hoped a different hue would change the Giants luck. Consider that wish granted. “A tough trip, a long game and I’m sure the boys were tired,” Bochy said. “To come back and play another day game today, it was a gut check for everybody and they came through today.”

Despite recording just 11 hits over 27 innings in Los Angeles, the Giants were victorious Sunday thanks to a pair of tworun home runs hit by catcher Nick Hundley and first baseman Brandon Belt and Chris Stratton’s best career start against the Dodgers.

Though the Giants are two games under .500, they’ve won 10 of their last 13 getaway day games and will take another happy flight home to San Francisco.

After Hundley crushed a tworun shot halfway up the left center field bleachers in the top of the first, the Giants snapped a

BASEBALL / 10 San Francisco Giants’ Nick Hundley celebrates after his two-run home run against the Dodgers during the first inning in Los Angeles on Sunday.