ANAHEIM – Yasiel Puig wasn’t injured when he collided with second baseman Howie Kendrick in the fifth inning of the Dodgers 3-2 loss to the Angels Thursday night.

The Dodgers right fielder was removed from the game for precautionary reasons after Kendrick’s upper arm appeared to strike Puig in the neck. Both were chasing a flare by Mike Trout in short right field, but Puig didn’t call off Kendrick until the last second, according to Dodgers manager Don Mattingly.

“There hasn’t been any trouble out there all spring,” Mattingly said. “It was just one of those things. I don’t know if Yasiel didn’t think he could call it early enough. I mean you can’t call for it until you know you’ve got it, so everybody keeps coming until the end. And obviously with him calling it late, Howie’s going to keep going and he’s going to have trouble stopping…That’s when it gets dangerous.”