GLENDALE, Ariz. — The greater Phoenix area experienced a light but steady rain this morning. The streets were wet, the baseball fields were wet, and Cactus League games were a threat to be postponed. Julio Urias got his jog in outdoors anyway.

In Phoenix, like any good warm-weather climate, drivers aren’t always used to driving on slick pavement. Maybe that’s why the Camelback Road off-ramp was backed up when the Angels team bus was driving into the Dodgers’ spring training home for their Thursday afternoon game. They waited for the congestion to clear up, then they waited for five minutes at a red light. The game started three minutes late.

Dodgers starter Brett Anderson, who had been warming up in anticipation of a 1:05 p.m. start time, threw and threw and threw. At some point he had to sit down — “10 minutes, 12 minutes, just enough time to cool down and then warm back up.”

Anderson wasn’t himself. He allowed seven hits, and retired only five batters against the Angels.

“I’m not using it as an excuse,” Anderson said of the delay. “It’s a weird circumstance but something you have to deal with.”

Here’s more from Anderson postgame:

A couple more notes:

• Pitcher Chin-Hui Tsao, who was called up for one day from the Dodgers’ minor-league camp, retired Pujols, David Freese and C.J. Cron in order in the fifth inning. He struck out Erick Aybar in the sixth then ran into trouble when Chris Iannetta did what he does best, working a walk. A double by Collin Cowgill and a single by Kole Calhoun tagged Tsao with his first earned runs of camp, but then the right-hander got Mike Trout to fly out to end the inning.

• This is all noteworthy because Tsao was banned from at least two leagues after allegedly conspiring to fix two games in Taiwan in 2009. He’d pitched in parts of four major-league seasons early in his career, the last of which came with the Dodgers in 2007. The odds of Tsao pitching his way onto the Dodgers’ major-league radar seemed slim at age 33, but “yeah, I’d say he’s on the radar,” manager Don Mattingly said after this game. “Once he was cleared by Major League Baseball to participate, it’s a matter of can he pitch or not.”

• Alex Guerrero started a double play at shortstop and hit a three-run home run in the first two innings of the game. He finished 1 for 3 and is batting .400 with a 1.063 OPS in a very small Cactus League sample size.

• The Dodgers’ sixth Cactus League tie set a team record.

• The box score is here.