LOS ANGELES - If Jason Schmidt gets this kind of run support on a regular basis this season, the Los Angeles Dodgers could have their first 20-game winner in 17 years.

Wilson Betemit capped a five-run first inning with a two-run homer, Russell Martin and Matt Kemp also homered and Olmedo Saenz drove in three runs with a pair of doubles, leading the Dodgers to a 13-4 rout of the Angels on Friday night.

The right-hander, beginning his 13th big league season and first with Los Angeles, finished his spring 2-1 with a 4.50 ERA in six starts. He will start again on Wednesday at Milwaukee and begin what he hopes will be his first 20-win season in the majors. He had a career-high 18 in 2004 with San Francisco.

"I'm sure he's had better springs before, but we know what this guy can do for us during a long season because he's been doing it for a long time," Dodgers manager Grady Little said. "We feel like we have more than one pitcher on this staff like that, and that's why I feel like we're better in that area this year than we were last year."

First baseman Nomar Garciaparra returned to the Dodgers lineup for the first time since his wife, former soccer star Mia Hamm, delivered twin girls five weeks prematurely on Tuesday night. He singled all three times up and drove in a run.

Ervin Santana threw 62 pitches in only 2 1/3 innings, allowing nine runs and 11 hits in his final tuneup before his regular-season debut on Wednesday against Texas at Angel Stadium. The right-hander, who led the staff with 16 wins last season, finished the spring with a 6.33 ERA in seven starts.

Juan Pierre, the Dodgers' new leadoff hitter, triggered the first-inning rally by beating out a bunt single. He scored on Jeff Kent's single before Saenz hit a two-out, two-run double over the glove of center fielder Gary Matthews Jr. at the fence. Two pitches later, the switch-hitting Betemit drove another flat offering by Santana to center for his first homer of the spring.

"We like our team, but we understand that a lot of people like their teams right now," Little said. "On paper, we look good, but now we've got to go show the world what we can do - and we've got to do it for 162 games. It's like last year. We'll go as far as our pitching will take us."

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