The Tampa Bay Rays might turn out to be the reply to this trivia query: Who’re the one two groups the Los Angeles Angels have swept in 2026?
The Angels will look so as to add the Rays to their brief record of sweep victims — the Texas Rangers are the opposite — after they host them on Sunday afternoon in Anaheim, Calif.
Proper-hander Grayson Rodriguez (2-2, 8.10 ERA) will make his sixth begin since lacking nearly two years with assorted accidents. The Rays, who’ve misplaced 4 straight highway video games and eight of their final 9 away from Florida, will use right-hander reliever Casey Legumina (2-1, 3.07 ERA) as an opener.
Rodriguez is 3-0 with a 2.16 ERA in 4 profession begins in opposition to Tampa Bay with the final one coming in 2024 earlier than he was shut down for the season on July 31. He missed all of 2025.
He picked up a no-decision in his most up-to-date begin, a 5-4 loss in 10 innings to the Houston Astros on Monday. He allowed three runs (two earned) on six hits over 5 1/3 innings, walked two and struck out six whereas averaging 97 mph along with his four-seam fastball.
Legumina might be making his second profession begin. He’s 1-1 with a 1.80 ERA in eight profession appearances in opposition to Los Angeles.
Los Angeles tied a season-high four-game win streak with a 8-0 victory on Saturday, pounding out 15 hits within the course of. Jo Adell went 4-for-5 with a double and three runs, and Jose Siri smacked a two-run homer for the Angels.
It was the third four-hit recreation of Adell’s profession and second in per week.
The Angels, 12-8 over their final 20 video games, might be attempting for his or her first five-game win streak in over a 12 months. The final time that occurred was Could 16-23, 2025, after they received eight in a row.
Jose Soriano, hit in the best chest space by a 105 mph comebacker by Jonathan Aranda within the first inning, picked up his eighth win, permitting three hits and putting out 5 over 5 innings. He left after throwing simply 76 pitches.
“We simply needed to be actually cautious,” Angels supervisor Kurt Suzuki mentioned. “It was smoked proper off his chest. He gave us 5 good innings, and we felt like that was the best time to get him out of there.”
Soriano mentioned it was really his left hip, not his chest, that was bothering him.
“I used to be attempting to get away from the ball, and once I tried, I simply felt my leg (get) caught,” Soriano informed The Orange County Register. “That is once I began feeling a bit of bit sore. And each inning, it felt a bit of bit worse.”
Soriano mentioned he does not count on the hip harm to sideline him.
“I really feel I could be good for my subsequent outing,” he mentioned. “We’ll simply maintain engaged on that and I am gonna be good.”
Tampa Bay managed simply 5 singles but in addition walked 4 occasions in Saturday’s loss. The Rays have been 0-for-8 with runners in scoring place and have scored simply three runs on 12 hits within the first two video games.
“Our offense goes by means of it a bit of bit proper now,” Tampa Bay supervisor Kevin Money admitted. “We’ll come out of it. We simply have to discover a option to get a few these large hits in bunches.”
–Discipline Stage Media
