Rays 3, Angels 4: Rays beat themselves, drop fifth straight

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Rays unable to get the big hit as they drop 5th straight.

The Tampa Bay Rays played host to Mike Trout and the Los Angeles Angels Tuesday evening in Tampa as they began a 13-game homestand. Despite their best efforts to overcome Youtuber Zack Hample and the Halos, the Rays fell in the series opener by a score of 4-3.

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...