Maybe hits are overrated. The Angels accumulated only four of them on Sunday but scored four of their five runs on outs—three on sacrifice flies—in a 5-2 victory over Tampa Bay that snapped the Angels' five-game losing streak and the Rays' six-game win streak.
Shohei Ohtani allowed two runs and six hits in a career-high 7 2/3 innings in Angel Stadium, striking out nine, walking one and throwing a career-high 110 pitches, to improve to 4-1 with a 3.35 ERA, using his devastating split-fingered fastball and sharp slider to notch seven of his strikeouts.
Ohtani retired 12 batters in a row after giving up a Johnny Field homer to open the third inning before running into trouble in the seventh when Wilson Ramos led off with a single to left and took second on Matt Duffy's single to right-center.