Los Angeles Angels at Tampa Bay Rays

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Los Angeles Angels

8-4, 6-3 Away

Final
11 - 1

Tampa Bay Rays

5-7, 5-4 Home

Adell homers twice in fifth inning, Trout and Ward each go deep twice as Angels rout Rays 11-1

Taylor Ward crushes pair of homers for Angels

Adell led off the fifth against Zack Littell (0-3) with first first homer this season for a 3-1 lead and capped an eight-run fifth inning with a three-run drive against Mason Englert. Adell matched a career high with four RBI.

Rick Reichardt homered twice in a 12-run inning at Boston on April 30, 1966, and Kendrys Morales homered twice in a nine-run sixth at Texas on July 30, 2012.

Ward homered on the game's second pitch and Nolan Schanuel hit an RBI double in the second.

Jonathan Aranda closed the Rays to 2-1 with a run-scoring single in the fourth off José Soriano (2-1).

Trout hit a two-run homer in the fifth against Littell and added a solo homer in the ninth off Hunter Bigge for his fifth home run this season and the 27th multihomer game of his big league career. Trout also homered in the July 30, 2012, game.

Ward also homered in the fifth, a two-run drive against Littell.

Los Angeles has won four straight series.

Tampa Bay dropped to 5-4 at Steinbrenner Field, where it played its third game on a 13-game homestand. A crowd of 10,046 was the Rays' ninth straight sellout.

Soriano allowed five hits and three walks in 7 2/3 innings.

Littell yielded a career-high four homers, giving up seven runs and eight hits in four-plus innings.

Key moment Adell's homer on the first pitch of the fifth sparked the big inning.

Key stat Four of the Angels six home runs came in the fifth inning, the first three off Littell.

Up next Angels: RHP Jack Kochanowicz (1-0, 3.27 ERA) starts Friday at Houston against RHP Ronel Blanco (0-1, 9.45).

Rays: RHP Taj Bradley (1-0, 4.91) starts Friday in a series opener against Atlanta

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Morel struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Aranda grounded into double play, first to shortstop to pitcher, Caminero out at second.
	9th Inning	Caminero singled to left.
	9th Inning	Davis grounded out to third.
	9th Inning	O'Hoppe grounded into double play, shortstop to second to first, Soler out at second.
	9th Inning	Soler singled to center.

Statistics

LAA		TB
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
14	Ground Balls	17
5	Strikeouts	5
11	Runs Batted In	1
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
14	Hits	6
0	Stolen Bases	0
1	Walks	3
1	Catcher Interference	0
11	Runs	1
1	Ground Into Double Play	4
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
40	At Bats	29
6	Home Runs	0
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
12	Runners Left On Base	12
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
2	Doubles	1
21	Fly Balls	7
0	Caught Stealing	0
144	Pitches	104
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	1
0	Pinch Hits	1
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	0
34	Total Bases	7
42	Plate Appearances	32
972.0	Projected Home Runs	0.0
8	Extra Base Hits	1
11.0	Runs Created	0.6
.350	Batting Average	.207
.000	Pinch Hit Average	1.000
.850	Slugging Percentage	.241
.525	Secondary Average	.138
.366	On Base Percentage	.281
1.216	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.523
0.7	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	2.4
11.0	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	0.6
80.0	Batter Rating	12.0
6.7	At Bats Per Home Run	0.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
3.43	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.25
.500	Isolated Power	.034
0.20	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.60
.024	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.094
.175	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	-.069
22.0	Runs Produced	2.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.9	Patience Ratio	0.3
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.3
121.5	MLB Rating	67.8
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0