Definitely parkhop. Disneyland should open at 8 AM when you are there, so you have plenty of time to get some rides in and grab a fastpass for something later even if you want to try to make the CA opening one of your days. They start letting people into CA at 9:30 AM. Also, if you have 3-day parkhoppers, you will be able to take advantage of Disneyland early entry at 7 AM on the Tuesday and have time for even more fun before heading over to CA when the crowds pick up.
In general if you have a Magic Morning you will start that day at DL regardless. MM Is Sun/Tue/Thrs/Sat. In your case Tue is your MM day. Further, if you want to start a day at DCA and sleep a little more then I recommend doing that on MM days when you do not have MM. But that does not apply to you since you will only be there one MM day (Tue).
If you are there in July pay attention to when the All-Star game is at Angels Stadium.
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