LOS ANGELES – A banana and a Red Bull. That was the breakfast of a nervous and nauseous Mat Latos before his Los Angeles Dodgers debut Sunday. He was able to keep the meal down, and hours later he gave his new team exactly what it hoped for in trading for him last week.

Critics of the club might have been disappointed it didn’t land a big-name ace such as David Price or Cole Hamels before Friday’s non-waiver trade deadline, but the organization’s first-year front office understood its needs from the wants. And Latos filled that need over six innings in helping the Dodgers complete a sweep of the Angels 5-3 in 10 innings at Dodger Stadium.

Andre Ethier also had something to do with it as he homered in his final two at-bats, the first to put the Dodgers ahead in the eighth, and the second to win the game in the 10th.

Latos allowed one run and exited after a conservative six innings. His ERA since having his left knee drained and coming off the disabled list with the Miami Marlins dropped to 2.79 in eight starts.

“I was just glad I didn’t get booed like I did in Miami in my first start. I made it past two-thirds of an inning and I didn’t give up seven runs,” Latos said, referring to his Marlins debut in which he didn't get out of the first inning. “I was real nervous when I woke up this morning. I was nauseous. I didn’t eat much. I ate a banana and a Red Bull. Then I was ready to go.”

Latos threw more than 100 pitches in his first two starts off the disabled list, but in his six starts since then he has averaged 86 pitches. Despite those counts, Latos has gone at least six innings each of those times, and that is the kind of quality innings-eater the Dodgers rotation needs. It does not have to have another top-of-the-rotation arm, not with Clayton Kershaw and Zack Greinke pitching like the best 1-2 punch in the sport.

Substance was the answer for this team, and acquiring it without parting with the farm system’s best prospects was a strong desire, possibly even a must. That is why Latos was attractive to Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman, because he came relatively cheap and has been one of the league’s most effective starters seen since mid-June.

Latos mostly ducked trouble all afternoon, and the only significant blemish was Kole Calhoun’s double in the sixth. Calhoun eventually scored on an Albert Pujols ground out. Latos departed in line for the win.

“The first time out, he threw the ball really well and got us where we want to be,” manager Don Mattingly said. “I felt he did his job today.”

So did Ethier, and then some. After Jim Johnson, another pitcher making his Dodgers debut, coughed up the lead in the eighth by allowing a Calhoun home run, Ethier smoked a shot of his own over the center-field wall to put the Dodgers in the lead again.

Once again, though, the bullpen gave it up. A ninth-inning double by Chris Ianetta tied the game, setting the stage for Ethier to strike again an inning later with a lined shot that stayed up long enough to get over the right-field wall and end the game.

It was Ethier’s 12th home run of the year, his sixth career walk-off homer and his 12th career multihomer game.

“Not too many times in baseball do you get to take the last shot, and that was one of those opportunities right there,” Ethier said.