Pena has 4 RBIs and Navarro drives in 3 as Tampa Bay beats the Los Angeles Angels

Pena hits 3-run homer in Rays’ win

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Carlos Pena hit a three-run homer and drove in four runs, and Dioner Navarro homered and had three RBIs as the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Los Angeles Angels 11-1 on Thursday night.

Navarro homered to lead off the eighth and Pena followed with his 19th homer of the season off Rich Thompson to make it 11-1. Pena also had a third-inning sacrifice fly.

Mired in a 3-for-34 slide, Navarro gave Tampa Bay a 4-0 lead on a two-run double during the fourth.

Evan Longoria and Carl Crawford both hit solo homers for Tampa Bay, which reached the .500 mark (31-31) by winning the final two games of the three-game series.

Ervin Santana (1-3) allowed six runs and eight hits over 4 2-3 innings.

Rays starter David Price left with one out in the fourth because of a high pitch count (105). The first overall pick in the 2007 amateur draft gave up one run, two hits, six walks and had six strikeouts.

Gabe Gross put the Rays up 1-0 on a run-scoring single in the second. He had another RBI single during a two-run fifth.

Torii Hunter’s run-scoring single off Grant Balfour (3-1) got the Angels within 4-1 in the top of the fifth. The inning ended when Bobby Abreu was doubled off second on Vladimir Guerrero’s liner to short.

Longoria hit his 14th homer of the season to stop an 0-for-19 slide in the fifth, and Crawford went deep one inning later.

Tropicana Field (30 games) and the new Yankee Stadium (29 games) are the only major league stadiums to have at least one homer hit in every game this season.

Los Angeles loaded the bases with two outs in the first, but failed to score when Price struck out Robb Quinlan.

Price threw 32 pitches, including 17 balls, in the first.

NOTES: Rays manager Joe Maddon said the team plans to have Price throw no more than 175-180 innings in the regular season this year. … Hunter, slowed the past couple weeks by a groin strain, was back in the lineup after being rested Wednesday.