The Tampa Bay Rays performed host to Mike Trout and the Los Angeles Angels Tuesday night in Tampa as they started a 13-game homestand. Regardless of their finest efforts to beat Youtuber Zack Hample and the Halos, the Rays fell within the sequence opener by a rating of 4-3.
Whereas some on social media may place the blame solely on the toes of Hample, who caught a two-run wall-scraping homer simply over the outstretched glove of left fielder Christopher Morel, the Rays merely couldn’t get out of their very own approach on Tuesday night time and because of this dropped their fifth straight and dropped to 4-6 to start out the 12 months.
Shane Baz made his second begin of the 12 months for the Rays reverse veteran Kyle Hendricks. The 2 battled it out and the one runs both surrendered got here on the aforementioned two-run homer within the second inning off the bat of Kyren Paris.
The 2-run bomb was Paris’ third of the 12 months and opened the scoring. The Angels would preserve that two run lead till the underside of the seventh inning when the Rays bats lastly got here alive.
Following seven strong frames from Baz, the Rays offense offered some a lot wanted run assist and bought Baz off the hook for the loss. Going through the flame-throwing Ben Joyce, Junior Caminero bought the Rays on the board with an reverse discipline solo-shot, his first of the 12 months. With the lead lower in half, Aranda adopted with a single and Morel promptly doubled him residence. Misner adopted with a run-scoring triple and within the span of simply 4 batters, the Rays had taken their first lead of the night time 3-2.
With Misner on third with no one out, Jansen grounded sharply to quick and Mangum grounded right into a fielder’s selection because the Angels secured the out at residence with Misner working on contact. With that, the menace was lifeless and the Rays would take a 3-2 lead into the eighth.
Uceta was unable to offer a shut-down inning and the Angels tied the sport at 3-3 on a Jorge Soler double down the left discipline line. Scoring on the double was Rengifo who walked to start out the inning.
Caballero, hitting for Caminero (defensive substitution the inning prior), tripled to start out the underside of the eighth. Then, Mead, pinch hitting for Aranda, struck out. Morel adopted with a strikeout of his personal and an ejection to go together with it following a questionable strike name earlier within the at-bat. Jansen gave a ball a experience and nearly opened up the sport for the Rays, but it surely was caught on the monitor and the Rays had been unable to money in on the leadoff triple.
Fairbanks got here on for the ninth and after hanging out Adell, surrendered a single to O’Hoppe. Ward then hit a floor ball to 3rd that ought to have ended the inning, however Coco Montes, the lately recalled utility man, was unable to collect the grounder cleanly and needed to settle for only one out. The very subsequent hitter, Luis Rengifo, lofted a ball into shallow heart and gave the Angels a 4-3 lead.
All the way down to their remaining three outs, Mangum reached on a leadoff single that was lined off the glove of Rengifo at third. He then stole second and Partitions bunted him over to 3rd. Partitions, who reached on the bunt, stole second and the Rays had been in enterprise. No person out with the tying run at third and the profitable run simply 180 toes away. Nonetheless, the Rays once more had been unable to money in. Diaz grounded softly to 3rd and Mangum surprisingly took off for residence. He was retired with ease and the menace was diminished. With Partitions at third and Diaz not at first, Brandon Lowe struck out swinging at a chin-high fastball and Caballero struck out on swinging on a letters-high fastball to finish the sport.
The Rays completed 2-13 with RISP and at not less than one level within the seventh, eighth, and ninth innings had a runner on third base with no outs. Solely as soon as did any of these runners rating; Morel within the seventh, however Misner adopted and was on third with no outs following a triple that scored Morel and didn’t rating. That’s the story of the sport.
Baz completed with seven innings of three hit baseball, a type of simply occurred to depart the yard. He walked 4 and struck out six. His ERA strikes to 1.38 via two begins. In 13 innings of labor to start out the 12 months he has 16 punch outs.
The Rays will ship Ryan Pepiot to the mound tomorrow night in hopes of ending the skid.
