Los Angeles Dodgers Vs. Los Angeles Angels Riavlry: Watch Albert Pujols Impersonate Yasiel Puig! [VIDEO]

School was officially in session during the much anticipated “freeway series” between the Los Angeles Dodgers and The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim this past week. Veteran first baseman, Albert Pujols, built what could be a budding rivalry with Dodgers phenom Yasiel Puig when he tagged and took second after Puig nonchalantly caught the ball and wasn’t paying attention.

Puig was clearly embarrassed that he was caught napping on the catch and on the next play (which was also hit to him), he came up ready to fire. When Pujols didn’t tag, Puig waved his glove at Big Albert, enticing him to try and run on him again. Things then got a little personal when Pujols was seen impersonating Puig after the inning was over.

The back and forth banter and tit-for-tat showmanship went on throughout the game and the series. Earlier in the game, Puig caught a fly ball close to the track and immediately fired back to first where Angels shortstop Erick Aybar was almost picked off on the play. In true Dikembe Mutumbo fashion, Puig wagged his finger at Aybar as if to say “oh no you don’t.”

The Angels dugout clearly took notice on the play and when the not so nimble or swift Pujols tagged and took second on the routine fly ball that Puig lazily caught, the Angels bench was seen wagging their fingers right back at the Dodgers centerfielder.

“That’s how you play the game,” Pujols told reporters after the game. “Puig can have fun, too. I’m having fun. He can do whatever he wants.”

The two all-stars continued their rivalry through the remainder of the freeway series which the Dodgers won three games to one. Both teams are a mere 30 miles away from each other off the 5 freeway and have not each made the post season in the same year since 2009. With both teams set to make the playoffs if the season ended today, there are rumblings of an all Los Angeles World Series which is just adding to the growing rivalry between the two clubs. Now with the Puig-Pujols showdown heating up as well, this rivalry just got a little more interesting.