Road problems of the Rays of Tampa Bay continued on Monday evening when they started a two-week trip 12 games from top to bottom on the west coast with a 5-1 defeat against the Los Angeles Angels in Anaheim, California.
It was the 11th defeat in the last 12 games on the road for the Rays.
Ryan Pepiot (6-9, 3.80 ERA), which is in the middle of a personal crisis, will try to direct Tampa Bay on Tuesday evening when he opposes his compatriot Jose Soriano (7-8, 3.65) in the mid-three-game series.
Pepiot has a 2-0 sheet with a 3.27 MPM in two career starts against the angels. On Thursday, he arrived in a 7-4 defeat on New York Yankees in a match that saw him granted a summit of seven points over six strokes, including a three-point circuit in Ben Rice and a two-point shot in Giancarlo Stanton, in four rounds.
He marked his fifth consecutive departure that the Rays lost with a 6-5 victory against athletics on July 2.
Soriano is 1-1 with an MPM of 2.75 in six career appearances (three departures) against Tampa Bay. This victory occurred on April 10 after granting a point on five strokes in 7 2/3 rounds while removing four.
The Angels, behind a two -point circuit by Jo Adell and a solid start by Yusei Kikuchi, made a Tampa Bay bay in the American League classification with the victory on Monday. Los Angeles now follows the Yankees and Seattle by five games for the last two points of the League.
Taylor Ward went 3-en-4 with two products produced and Bryce Teodosio also succeeded three strokes, stole a base and scored a race on Monday for the Angels, who won their second consecutive match. The victory was rather ho-hum after the angels joined a five-point deficit to display an 8-5 victory against the White Sox of Chicago on Sunday on the three-point Ward circuit, at the end of ninth.
“You are trying not to become too high or too low,” said the acting director of Los Angeles Ray Montgomery. “It’s good to take a good start in this (series). It’s boring, but I like to be boring good.”
Tampa Bay took an advance of 1-0 in the first round on Monday after Yandy Diaz started with a double in the right area, put forward in the third on a simple by Ha-Seong Kim, and scored on a sacrificial fly by junior caminero. But Kikuchi only granted two strokes during the next 5 2/3 rounds while removing seven.
“The first round could have moved us away,” said Montgomery. “Back to abandon one is quite impressive.”
Adrian Houser, making his first departure for Tampa Bay since his acquisition on the deadline for trade in the Chicago White Sox last week, allowed the peaks of the points of points (five) and successes (11) before leaving after 5 2/3 heats.
“It was a few unique days for him, without a doubt,” said Rays manager Kevin Cash. “Fly to the west coast to start with a bunch of new faces that you don’t know. But I thought it was very good in competition.”
Houser said: “Obviously, I wanted to go there and hammer the typing area but I could not do it. I found myself and I could not perform throws when I had to help myself. This is ultimately what caused me in trouble this evening.”
– field level media
