It’s great to have Mike Trout in the lineup. It’s greater to have Mookie Betts, Cody Bellinger, Max Muncy, Chris Taylor and a bullpen of reclamation projects-turned-wipeout artists, as the Dodgers showed in a 6-5 win over the Angels in 10 innings on Saturday night in Anaheim.

Betts tied the game with a homer leading off the seventh inning and had three RBIs, while fellow MVP Cody Bellinger scored twice. But it was Muncy and Taylor who combined to win it in historic fashion and, as losing manager Joe Maddon pointed out, without getting a base hit.

• Box score

Having made the final out in the ninth inning, Taylor was placed at second base as the automatic runner under this year’s new rules for extra-inning games. Muncy, whose two-run single in the third inning ended an 0-for-15 nightmare with runners in scoring position, hit MLB’s first leadoff sacrifice fly in the 10th, but only because Taylor got the jump on Angels reliever Keynan Middleton one pitch earlier.

On an 0-2 pitch to Muncy, with third baseman Anthony Rendon playing Muncy to pull and shifted far from the bag, Taylor noticed Middleton never looked back at him and took off for third.

“Knowing Middleton can be a little slower to the plate, so giving C.T. the green light there,” said manager Dave Roberts. “He didn’t get the best of jumps, but fortunately set up a situation for Muncy, and it played out big.”

Although Rendon beat Taylor to the bag, catcher Max Stassi’s throw was off target and required a lunging catch from Rendon away from Taylor to keep the ball from sailing into left field.

“Muncy had two strikes right there, so it’s kind of tough for him to pull something,” said Betts. “Him getting that bag made it a lot easier for Muncy at that point.”

On the next pitch, Muncy hit a sac fly to the warning track in right field and Taylor scored easily.

Although he sat Muncy on Friday night, before Saturday’s game, Roberts said Muncy was “a lot closer than most people think he is.” He was right.

“To drive in three, take the at-bat he did, walk -- it’s a typical Max Muncy game,” said Roberts. “Hopefully, that day off got him right, because he’s not going to have any more going forward.”

On came Kenley Jansen for his sixth save, which ended with a three-pitch called strikeout of Trout. Jansen -- who has struck out Trout in six of eight at-bats -- wrapped up another shutdown outing by the Dodgers’ bullpen.

"Kenley just has that way, against the best player in the game, to bear down and make pitches,” said Roberts. “Those three pitches -- two cutters and a little two-seamer -- were just next-level pitches. So I don't know what it is. Not many guys can say that about their at-bats against Mike Trout, but fortunately, Kenley can."

Jansen joined Caleb Ferguson, Brusdar Graterol and Jake McGee to total 5 1/3 scoreless innings in relief of starter Walker Buehler, who allowed five runs (four earned) in 4 2/3 innings.

“Everybody knows we’re in every game,” said Betts. “I didn’t know, but now being here, seeing it night in and night out, the bullpen puts up zeros and gives us opportunities to win games, and that’s all you can ask for. Ours definitely is one of the best.”