Junior Caminero’s 15th home run of the season triggered a five-run eighth inning as the Tampa Bay Rays defeated the Los Angeles Angels 8-3 on Sunday afternoon in Anaheim, Calif.

Victor Mesa Jr. also stroked a two-run homer in the eighth for the Rays, who snapped a 3-3 tie to avoid being swept in the three-game series. The Angels saw their season high-tying four-game winning streak come to a close.

Right-hander Kevin Kelly (4-2) struck out three in two innings to earn the win. He was the third of the Rays’ six pitchers in a bullpen game.

Los Angeles took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the second on Denzer Guzman’s two-out single that drove in Jo Adell.

With one out and the bases loaded in the third, the Angels lost starting pitcher Grayson Rodriguez to lower back tightness. Chandler Simpson hit a two-out, two-run single off reliever Chase Silseth to give the Rays a 2-1 lead.

Tampa Bay’s Ben Williamson hit his first home run of the season in the fourth to push the lead to 3-1.

Donovan Walton’s first home run as an Angel made it 3-2 in the bottom of the fifth inning, then Adell made it 3-3 with an RBI single. Left-hander Ian Seymour was charged with both runs.

After Caminero’s home run in the eighth, Hunter Feduccia’s single rove in Richie Palacios and Mesa’s second home run of the season made it 8-3. All five runs in the inning were charged to Angels right-hander Sam Bachman (1-1).

The Angels threatened in the bottom of the eighth against Craig Kimbrel when Adell was hit by a pitch and Nolan Schanuel walked to open the inning. Nick Madrigal walked with one out to load the bases.

Reliever Garrett Cleavinger came on and struck out pinch hitters Trey Mancini and Oswald Peraza to end the threat.

–Field Level Media

PHILADELPHIA — Substitute Amad Diallo struck in the 90th minute to give Ivory Coast a deserved 1-0 win over Ecuador in both teams’ Group E opener on Saturday night.

Diallo’s first-time strike of Wilfried Singo’s cross gave the Ivorians their first-ever World Cup victory over South American opposition and halted Ecuador’s unbeaten run in all fixtures at 19 matches.

It also put a bow on a 19-year-old Yan Diomande’s dazzling performance as “Les Elephants” pulled even on points with a Germany side that thumped Curacao 7-1 in their opener earlier Sunday.

The promising Ivorians — who have the youngest squad at this World Cup — looked to be running out of ideas before Singo found space surging up the right from his defensive post.

His cross reached Diallo in stride, with the 23-year-old Manchester United charge deftly guiding it into the bottom left corner with the side of his left boot to give the West Africans a dream start to their first World Cup finals appearance since 2014.

Ecuador’s best first-half chances came from Ivory Coast’s casual defending. John Yeboah and Alan Minda struck the bar in the 23rd and 30th minutes, respectively.

But it was the West Africans who looked better in possession, with Diomande terrorizing Ecuador’s left side.

In the 35th minute, he picked up the ball at midfield, beat fullback Piero Hincapie down the line and dragged a cross into the path of Nicolas Pepe’s late run to the penalty spot. Pepe tried to sneak a second touch to get on his favored left foot, seeing his effort ultimately blocked.

In first-half stoppage time, Wilfried Singo nearly turned a spectacular bicycle kick on frame from Guela Doue’s cross.

Ivory Coast started well after the break, but in the 68th minute, a well-struck effort from Ecuador’s Gonzalo Plata forced Yahia Fofana into a comfortable save.

Before that, it was more of Diomande. In the 52nd minute, his cross met Elye Wahi’s angling run, but Wahi’s first-time strike skimmed the crossbar.

And moments after switching to the left flank following two Ivory Coast changes in the 56th minute, he split Yeboah, Alan Franco and Moises Caicedo on his way into the box before firing high.

In a match played within driving distance of more than 600,000 Ecuadorian Americans estimated to live in New York and New Jersey, La Tricolor fans dominated the atmosphere, singing “Vamos Ecuatorianos!” and “Si Se Puede!” from the start and rising to their feet at every Ecuador half-chance.

–Ian Nicholas Quillen, Field Level Media

The San Francisco Giants placed right-handed reliever Keaton Winn, who pitched on three consecutive days last weekend, on the 15-day injured list on Sunday because of a right elbow strain.

The move is retroactive to last Thursday. In a corresponding move, the Giants recalled right-hander Tristan Beck from Triple-A Sacramento.

Winn, 28, appeared in games on June 6, 7 and 8 — the last going two-thirds of an inning and allowing three runs on three hits to blow a save opportunity in a 4-3 home loss to the Washington Nationals.

San Francisco manager Tony Vitello said Winn felt soreness in the elbow while playing catch on Saturday and had an MRI exam. Vitello said Winn won’t throw for “a handful of days at the most” and doesn’t believe the injury is “anything too crazy.”

“It’s probably best for him to get a reset here,” Vitello said. “I think he’s in a fairly good spot. I think, more than anything, mentally, he’s a little frustrated. He wants to be out there.”

Winn is 2-2 with one save, a 3.23 ERA, nine walks and 26 strikeouts in 30 2/3 innings over 29 relief appearances this season.

San Francisco selected Winn in the fifth round of the 2018 MLB Draft out of Iowa Western Community College. He missed the 2021 season in recovery from Tommy John surgery, and had season-ending surgery on his right elbow in July 2024.

He is a career 6-13 with two saves, a 5.33 ERA, 39 walks and 118 strikeouts in 138 1/3 innings over 57 games (17 starts) in parts of four seasons since 2023.

Beck, who turns 30 on June 24, has pitched eight innings for San Francisco this season and has a 9.00 ERA with two walks and three strikeouts. He was 2-1 with one save, a 3.91 ERA, nine walks and 23 strikeouts in 23 innings over 17 relief appearances for Sacramento this season.

For his career, Beck is 4-3 with four saves, a 4.18 ERA, 43 walks and 126 strikeouts in 165 2/3 innings over 77 games (five starts) for the Giants since 2023.

–Field Level Media