Rays win 4th in a row, send Angels to 5th straight loss

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Shane McClanahan pitched six effective innings, Brett Phillips drove in three runs and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Los Angeles Angels 13-3 Saturday for their fourth straight win.

Manuel Margot and Mike Zunino homered for Tampa Bay. Ji-Man Choi had four hits and drove in two runs as the Rays improved to 6-0 against the Angels this season

“I'm going to tell you what it's like, it's like waking up on Christmas morning as a kid and seeing all the presents,” Phillips said. “All the exciting things that you can imagine when you score a lot of runs like that. Everyone is excited and happy."

Seven Tampa Bay players scored and eight had a hit.

The Angels have lost five in a row overall.

“We just got beat,” Los Angeles manager Joe Maddon said. “We've just to throw this one away and come back tomorrow and play it right.”

McClanahan (3-2) allowed three runs and four hits, all coming in the third inning.

“That's just baseball,” McClanahan said. “Reset my mind and kept attacking.”

Phillips, hitless in his previous 15 at-bats, connected on a two-run triple to deep center off Alex Cobb (5-3). He scored on a wild pitch during a four-run fourth as Tampa Bay went up 6-3.

Phillips added an RBI single in a five-run seventh that made it 13-3.

Cobb dropped to 0-6 in eight starts against his former team after giving up six runs and six hits in four innings. He went 48-35 with Tampa Bay from 2011-17.

Shohei Ohtani bounced an RBI double over Choi at first base and Anthony Rendon flared a two-run double down the right-field line off an 100-mph fastball from McClanahan as the Angels took a 3-2 lead in the third.

Ohtani's hit left the bat at 29 mph, the lowest to result in an extra-base hit since StatCast data is...

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