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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP)  Yunel Escobar homered off Jered Weaver, and James Loney and Evan Longoria had RBI singles to lead the Tampa Bay Rays to a 3-0 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Friday night.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Chris Archer (3-2) allowed two hits over 5 2-3 innings and won for the first time in his last five starts, striking out five and walking five. The right-hander came in with a 6.97 ERA since his 16-1 victory over the Yankees on April 19 at St. Petersburg.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jake McGee, who has stranded all 13 baserunners he's inherited, started the seventh inning fresh after Juan Carlos Oviedo got the last out in the sixth. McGee gave up a single by Erick Aybar and a walk to Mike Trout, his third of the game. But Albert Pujols, who stranded six runners on the night, flied out to right field.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Joel Peralta pitched a scoreless eighth and Grant Balfour pitched a perfect ninth for his eighth save.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Weaver (4-3) allowed two runs and three hits over seven innings with five strikeouts and three walks. The Angels' ace was 4-0 with a 1.71 ERA in his previous five starts, including a 9-3 decision last Sunday in which he asked to be taken out of a game for the first time in his nine-year career because of a problem with his command - after throwing 102 pitches in 6 1-3 innings and getting staked to a 7-1 lead.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Archer matched zeroes with the three-time All-Star through the first four innings, and each team had one hit - the Angels a two-out single by Pujols in the first, and the Rays a one-out single by Escobar in the third. Efren Navarro's two-out single in the sixth was the only other hit Archer allowed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Escobar, who came in with four hits in eight career at-bats against Weaver, opened the scoring in the fifth when he drove an 0-2 pitch to left-center for his third homer of the season. It was only the third allowed by Weaver in seven starts since April 6 at Houston when the Astros went deep four times against him in 7-4 win.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Loney added a run-scoring single over the head of right fielder Collin Cowgill in the seventh for his team-leading 25th RBI, after Longoria drew a leadoff walk and got his first stolen base of the season - matching his total in 160 games last year.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Rays tacked on another run in the eighth with two walks and Longoria's RBI single against Michael Kohn, who had held opponents to just one unearned run in 17 1-3 innings over his previous 17 appearances.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Archer retired his first two batters in the fifth before walking John McDonald, Erick Aybar and Trout - whose walkoff three-run homer against Brad Boxberger in the ninth inning Thursday gave the Angels a 6-5 win. But Pujols grounded to third for a force on Aybar, making the two-time NL MVP 0 for 6 this season in bases-loaded situations and 3 for 22 since signing a 10-year, $240 million contract with the club in December 2011.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;NOTES: Weaver intentionally walked Escobar in the seventh, the right-hander's first intentional pass since Sept. 4, 2009, at Kansas City (Mark Teahen). ... Tampa Bays' last 12 shutout wins all have come on the road, including five this season. C Ryan Hanigan has caught 15 shutouts by the staff in 98 starts since catching Homer Bailey's no-hitter with Cincinnati against Pittsburgh on Sept. 28, 2012. ... Angels rookie INF Luis Jimenez beat David Price in the Halos' 40th annual cow-milking contest.... Tampa Bay 2B Cole Figueroa, who was promoted from Triple-A Durham on Thursday when 2B Ben Zobrist went on the DL, made his major league debut as a pinch-hitter in the eighth. He popped out to shortstop against Mike Morin. ... Angels OF Kole Calhoun (sprained right ankle) began a rehab assignment Friday night with Triple-A Salt Lake, and 3B David Freese is scheduled to join him Saturday. Freese hasn't played since May 2 because of a non-displaced fracture in the middle finger on his right hand, after getting hit by a pitch from Texas' Colby Lewis.&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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