Los Angeles Angels at Tampa Bay Rays

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Los Angeles Angels

7-3, 5-2 Away

Final
4 - 3

Tampa Bay Rays

4-6, 4-3 Home

Rengifo lifts Angels over Rays 4-3; Tampa Bay loses 5th straight in opener of 13-game homestand

Kenley Jansen allowed singles to Jake Mangum and Taylor Walls starting the ninth but escaped a second-and-third, no-outs jam for his third save. Yandy Díaz grounded to Rengifo, who threw out Mangum at the plate from third, and Jansen struck out Brandon Lowe and José Caballero to seal the Angels’ third straight win.

Tampa Bay drew 10,046 in its seventh sellout at Steinbrenner Field but dropped to 4-3 at its temporary home, the Yankees spring training ballpark.

This series originally was scheduled for Anaheim but Major League Baseball rearranged the schedule to have the Rays play 19 of their first 22 games at home in an attempt to lessen the impact of summer storms at the open-air ballpark. The Rays’ usual home, Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, has a dome that was damaged by Hurricane Milton last October.

The Rays went 2 for 13 with runners in scoring position and stranded nine runners, including seven in the last three innings. Pete Fairbanks (1-1) was the loser.

Tampa Bay’s Kameron Misner was hit on the helmet by a 98.8 mph pitch from Brock Burke (2-0) in the eighth but stayed in the game.

Anaheim's Kyren Paris hit his third homer this seasons, a two-run drive off Shane Baz, with a video review upholding there was no fan interference.

Junior Caminero’s homer off Ben Joyce started a three-run seventh that overcame a 2-0 deficit. Christopher Morel hit a tying double and scored on Misner’s triple.

Travis d’Arnaud hit a tying RBI grounder in the eighth.

Key moment Morel was ejected by plate umpire Rob Drake after a called strike in the eighth. He had words with the umpire and slammed his bat.

Key stat Jansen went 0 for 4, grounding into a double play, and is 1 for 24 in his first season with Tampa Bay.

Up next Angels LHP Yusei Kikuchi (0-1, 4.50 ERA) and Rays RHP starter Ryan Pepiot (0-1) Wednesday.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Caballero struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Díaz stole second.
	9th Inning	B. Lowe struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Díaz grounded into fielder's choice to third, Walls to third, Mangum out at home.
	9th Inning	Walls stole second.
	9th Inning	Walls reached on bunt single to third, Mangum to third.

Statistics

LAA		TB
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	1
10	Ground Balls	10
7	Strikeouts	11
4	Runs Batted In	3
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
6	Hits	9
0	Stolen Bases	3
6	Walks	4
0	Catcher Interference	0
4	Runs	3
0	Ground Into Double Play	1
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
33	At Bats	34
1	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
19	Runners Left On Base	20
0	Triples	2
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
1	Intentional Walks	0
1	Doubles	2
16	Fly Balls	13
0	Caught Stealing	1
132	Pitches	175
0	Games Started	0
1	Pinch At Bats	1
1	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
10	Total Bases	18
39	Plate Appearances	39
162.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
2	Extra Base Hits	5
3.5	Runs Created	6.4
.182	Batting Average	.265
1.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.303	Slugging Percentage	.529
.303	Secondary Average	.441
.308	On Base Percentage	.359
.611	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.888
0.6	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.8
3.5	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	6.4
27.0	Batter Rating	36.0
33.0	At Bats Per Home Run	34.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.75
3.38	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.49
.121	Isolated Power	.265
0.86	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.36
.154	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.103
.121	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.176
8.0	Runs Produced	6.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.4	Patience Ratio	0.6
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.4
76.0	MLB Rating	84.8
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0