The Rays lost against the Los Angeles Angels on Tuesday night, failing to capitalize on multiple golden run-scoring opportunities late in the game.

José Caballero slugged his first career grand slam and the Tampa Bay Rays held on for a 5-4 win over the Los Angeles Angels to snap a five-game losing streak.

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While some on social media might place the blame solely at the feet of Hample, who caught a two-run wall-scraping homer just over the outstretched glove of left fielder Christopher Morel, the Rays simply couldn’t get out of their own way on Tuesday night and as a result dropped their fifth straight and dropped to 4-6 to start the year.

Over the past week, the Rays made a habit of only putting together rallies that were too little and too late. They only scored 14 runs during their recent five-game losing streak, and just two of them came within the first five innings.

We knew that Tropicana Field East had been modeled after that ballpark in the Bronx, with right field dimensions very friendly to home run hitters, but this is the first game we have really seen it in action.

All six homers went to right field where down the line it is just 315 feet at George Steinbrenner Field, the Rays’ temporary home.

Jo Adell became the third player in Angels history to homer twice in the same inning, Mike Trout and Taylor Ward also homered twice and Los Angeles routed the Tampa Bay Rays 11-1.

Jo Adell’s home run drought ended all at once as he hit two of the Los Angeles Angels’ four homers in an eight-run fifth inning against the Tampa Bay Rays

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