By Pearl Allison Lo

~ The San Francisco Giants (9-13) will now face the other “Los Angeles” (11-11) team for the first time this season. It will also be the Angels’ first interleague series of the season. The teams will start off May with a three game weekend series in San Francisco.

“I think it was a pretty successful April, given the circumstances,” Los Angeles’s right fielder Kole Calhoun said. “It’s nice to be .500.”

Each played a home game in spring training and the Giants lost both games 3-2.

Both teams are 6-4 in their last ten games.

San Francisco will be coming off an off day after playing the Los Angeles Dodgers for three games. The Giants will be coming off a 7-3 loss in which the long ball hurt them.

The Angels will be coming off a narrow 6-5 victory over the Oakland Athletics on the other side of the Bay. The hero of the game, Mike Trout, will bring two multi-hit games into the matchup against San Francisco. He went 2 for 3 with two runs scored and a walk in his last two games. The first game Trout also had three runs batted in and the second game an additional walk. Los Angeles has won their last two games, scoring six runs in each.

The Giants are 4 and a half games and the Angels four games behind their respective division leaders, but San Francisco is at the bottom of their division and Los Angeles in second place in the American League.

The Angels are tied for 17th in the league in runs scored with 89 and San Francisco 28th in the league with 66. For pitching, Los Angeles is 12th in the league with a 3.83 earned run average and the Giants 16th in the league with a 3.93 earned run average. San Francisco tops the Angels in fielding, 7th with a .986 fielding percentage and 20th with a .981 fielding percentage respectively.

Los Angeles’s first baseman Albert Pujols, who is day-to-day, hopes to participate in the series after injuring his left hamstring Wednesday.

The projected starters for the three games are  for the Angels, C.J. Wilson, Hector Santiago, Jered Weaver and Chris Heston, Tim Hudson and Tim Lincecum for the Giants, respectively. Wilson started the last game the two teams played in the Cactus League. Weaver and Hudson will be looking for their first wins of the season.

May 1 will be a 7:15pm start and the games on Saturday and Sunday will start at 1:05pm.