The Los Angeles Angels Of Anaheim faced off against the Tampa Bay Rays yesterday at Tropicana Field with the Angels securing the victory 6 to 3. It was a great baseball game that fans with Angels tickets will remember for quite some time. There’s not much better than a baseball game so get your MLB tickets before its too late.
Angels pitcher Scott Kazmir (5.84 ERA) got the win, while Jeff Niemann (4.48 ERA) took the loss for the Rays. Scott Kazmir went 5 innings for the Angels, allowed 6 hits, one home run and one earned run with 2 walks and 4 strikeouts. Also pitching for the Angels was Matt Palmer (4.99), and Michael Kohn (2.60). The Rays’s starter Jeff Niemann went 4.1 innings, allowed 6 hits, 2 home runs and 5 earned runs with 3 walks and 5 strikeouts. Dan Wheeler (3.65), Jeremy Hellickson (3.38), Andy Sonnanstine (4.58), and Jake McGee (6.75) also pitched for the Rays. With the win, Kazmir’s record goes to 9-14, while Niemann drops to 10-7. Jordan Walden earned the save for the Angels, bringing his saves up to 1.
In addition to the 6 runs, the Angels put up 9 hits and committed no errors. It wasn’t a huge day for anyone at the plate for the Angels, as nobody managed more than 2 hits. Brandon Wood had a tough day at the plate, leaving 4 runners on base. Carl Crawford had the most hits for the Rays (3), followed by Ben Zobrist (2). Rocco Baldelli could not get much going at the plate as he left 4 runners on base. The Rays got 3 runs, 9 hits and no errors.
Umpiring duties were performed by Chris Guccione, Jerry Crawford, Phil Cuzzi and Brian O’Nora. There were 25,794 Rays ticket holders in attendance at Tropicana Field.