Harold Ramirez had an RBI double within the eleventh inning and scored the successful run on a throwing error to elevate the Tampa Bay Rays to a 4-3 win over the Angels on Wednesday evening.
It was the fifth consecutive win for the Rays, who got here again twice within the further innings.
“To return in and pull that one out, particularly when the bats weren’t there early, is big,” Rays shortstop Taylor Partitions mentioned. “Each recreation issues, particularly at this level as a result of it’s going to be a good race.”
The Rays managed solely 5 hits in successful for the tenth time in 12 video games and maintained a slim lead over Toronto and Seattle within the AL wild-card race.
Ramirez scored on a throwing error by first baseman Jared Walsh with one out within the eleventh after he had doubled off Jaime Barría (2-3).
“He’s been doing that each one 12 months,” Partitions mentioned of Ramirez’s clutch hitting. “We virtually anticipate him to do it at this level.”
Taylor Ward’s double had pushed in automated runner Shohei Ohtani that put the Angels up 3-2 within the high of the eleventh.
JT Chargois (1-0) received the win after one inning of reduction.
Mike Trout, whose dwelling run within the eighth had pushed within the recreation’s first run, hit a two-out floor ball with Walsh on third base to place the Angels up 2-1 within the tenth. Partitions’ throw was too low for first baseman Isaac Paredes to deal with and Walsh scored on the play.
However Partitions tied it 2-2 with a sacrifice fly within the backside of the tenth.
Trout’s twenty sixth dwelling run was his fifth of the season towards the Rays. It got here off Jason Adam, the third of Tampa Bay’s six relievers, after Shane McClanahan pitched six innings in a shutout duel with Angels starter Mike Mayers. The sport was scoreless after seven innings.
“Mac was fairly superior once more,“ Rays supervisor Kevin Money mentioned. “Their pitchers did a pleasant job, too, and we simply couldn’t discover a solution to get him a run, get him a lead, something.”
Yandy Diaz led off the Rays eighth with a single off Ryan Tepera, and pinch-runner Jose Siri stole second base on Tepera’s first pitch to Brandon Lowe. After Lowe’s floor ball moved Siri over to 3rd, he beat a throw to the plate to attain the tying run after a grounder by Ramirez.
“[Siri’s baserunning] was very spectacular as a result of I hit that ball laborious [against a drawn-in infield] and he was nonetheless protected at dwelling,” Ramirez famous.
McClanahan didn't quit a run for the primary time in 12 begins since June 9. He struck out 9 with 4 hits and one stroll.
Mayers pitched 5 shutout innings, giving up hits solely to the primary two batters he confronted, Diaz and Lowe. It was solely his fourth main league begin and first of the season in 193 main league appearances.
“Within the final seven years I’ve discovered lots within the bullpen that helped me tonight,” Mayers, the 30-year-old right-hander, mentioned. “First and second and no person out is nothing new popping out of the bullpen. So at that time it’s ‘Let’s do no matter it takes to get out of this and determine it out from there.’”
It was the longest scoreless look of Mayers’ profession.
Trout’s second dwelling run in two nights tied a franchise file for runs, pulling him even with Garrett Anderson at 1,024.
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