It’s like old-home week in Tempe Diablo Stadium, as Dodgers play Angels

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Three familiar faces arrived in Tempe Diablo Stadium wearing Dodger blue on Monday, a trio of players who played together on the Angels in 2000.

Garret Anderson, who spent the first 14 years of his big-league career in Anaheim and is trying to win a bench job with the Dodgers this spring, exchanged hugs with numerous Angels players and coaches as he walked into the stadium while an Angels minor league intrasquad game was being played.

Ramon Ortiz, who pitched for the Angels 2002 World Series-champion team, is starting for the Dodgers, and former USC right-hander Seth Etherton, a former first-round pick of the Angels who last played for them in 2000, is on the list of pitchers who could play Monday.

Anderson, the Angels’ career leader in numerous offensive categories, received a rousing ovation from the large Monday crowd in the first inning and delivered a bloop run-scoring single to center field.

--Mike DiGiovanna in Tempe, Ariz.