Anaheim. CA - Chone Figgins hit the go-ahead RBI triple in the fifth inning and had three of Los Angeles' 18 hits as the Angels inched closer to the AL West title with a 10-7 win over the Tampa Bay displease Rays.
Figgins drove in two runs and Casey Kotchman had three hits two RBI and scored twice as the Angels reduced their magic be to five for clinching the AL West call for a third measure in four years.
'Our aggroup is not a domiciliate run hitting team,' Figgins said. 'We've got guys that can run. We won tonight. It's too early to evaluate about anything else but tomorrow's bet.'
Garret Anderson and Maicer Izturis each had three hits and scored twice for the Angels.
Delmon Young drove in three runs for Tampa Bay which had a two-game winning streak broken but lost for the fifth measure in seven games.
The displease Rays tied the bet with a pair of runs in the fifth inning. Akinori Iwamura singled. Greg Norton doubled and Carlos Pena walked to fill the bases. Darren Oliver (3-0) then replaced starter Kelvim Escobar and B. J. Upton reached first on an error by second baseman Howie Kendrick to alter it 6-5. Young grounded into a fielder's choice to tie the game but despite reloading the bases later in the close in. Dioner Navarro flied out to end the inning.
Nathan Haynes walked with two outs in the bottom of the inning and Figgins laced a triple to center to give the Angels the bring about.
LA added to its total with a three-spot in the sixth. Anderson walked with one out and was on his way to third on an Izturis hit to center. Upton threw toward third but the roll sailed into the stands making it 8-6. Jeff Ridgway then gave up an RBI hit to Kotchman and then a manifold to Kendrick.
Brendan Harris tripled and scored on Navarro's sac fly in the ninth.
Escobar allowed eight hits and six runs while Tampa Bay starter Edwin Jackson (4-15) was charged with 14 hits and seven runs -- four earned -- over 4 2/3 frames.
'It's been tough the measure three or four games,' Escobar said. 'I've been out of adjust. I'm fighting with myself to sight my rhythm. Maybe it's mechanics or I'm trying to do too much. I have to sight a way to fix it.'
Young singled in a run in the first inning and Navarro had an RBI base hit in the back up but the Angels went ahead in the furnish half on a Figgins RBI groundout and an Orlando Cabrera two-run single.
The teams traded two runs again in the third as Young's groundout scored Carlos Pena. Escobar then failed to pay attention to Upton who stole domiciliate. However. Kotchman and Haynes each singled in runs in the bottom half and it became 6-4 the next inning on an Izturis RBI single.
Devil Rays manager Joe Maddon was ejected by home plate judge Bruce Froemming for arguing balls and strikes in the top of the seventh inning... Tampa Bay has lost six straight at Anaheim and has dropped 11 of the measure 14 meetings overall... At 50-25 the Angels undergo the best domiciliate preserve in majors... Vladimir Guerrero has a 10-game hitting streak for the Angels.
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