ST. PETERSBURG — The Tampa Bay Rays surrendered a season-high 14 runs in a blowout loss to the Los Angeles Angels, a game defined by four bases-loaded situations that broke decisively against Tampa Bay on both sides of the ball.

“It got ugly,” manager Kevin Cash said. “Kind of a sloppy game, sloppy loss on that side.”

The loss — Tampa Bay’s fifth in its last six games — featured 11 hits, four home runs, six walks, two hit batters and a wild pitch from the Rays’ pitching staff, which needed 183 pitches to stagger through nine innings. The wild pitch resulted in Angels shortstop Zach Neto scoring a run and exiting with an apparent neck injury after a collision at the plate with lefty Ian Seymour.

Starter Drew Rasmussen, typically a model of dependability, unraveled in the first inning with a single and back-to-back walks to load the bases with one out. Rasmussen said he was moving too quickly down the mound, meaning his arm wasn’t “on time.” The result was a 36-pitch first inning — the second-longest frame of his career behind a 37-pitch first in Texas on May 30, 2022. Wade Meckler punished a two-strike cutter left in the zone, launching it into the right-field seats for the first grand slam Rasmussen has allowed in the Majors.

“It’s more frustrating that in the moment you don’t realize a simple adjustment that can be made,” Rasmussen said. “The inning snowballs. Once you spot a team four runs, it’s just a big ask to ask the team to try and claw their way back out of that.”

The Rays had immediate chances to answer. Yandy Díaz launched a leadoff home run for the second straight game, and Tampa Bay loaded the bases on a single and two walks, but Angels lefty Reid Detmers stranded all three runners by striking out Ben Williamson and retiring Nick Fortes. The Rays finished 1-for-12 with runners in scoring position — a jarring number for a team that leads the American League with a .280 average in those situations.

“We just were missing the big hit,” Fortes said. “That’s kind of what we live on is timely hitting, and today we just didn’t have it. It was just one of those days.”

Rasmussen corrected his mechanics and cruised through two more innings before allowing a run in the fourth, ending a franchise-record 48-start streak — excluding openers — in which he allowed four runs or fewer. Cash pulled him after four innings and 70 pitches, one start after Rasmussen went seven innings for the first time in more than three years. “He kind of reset, got really nasty and gave us a lot of opportunities, bought us some time to get back in the ballgame,” Cash said. “We just didn’t.”

Down 6-3 in the sixth, the Rays loaded the bases again with two outs for team RBI leader Jonathan Aranda. Aranda hit a 99.3 mph missile to right field off reliever Sam Bachman, but Jo Adell ran in and robbed him with a sliding catch. “We did put together some good at-bats, and Jonny almost hit it too hard in that moment for Adell to come in there and grab it,” Cash said.

The Angels piled on with a seven-run ninth inning. Reliever Andrew Wantz walked two batters and hit two more, including plunking Vaughn Grissom to force in a run. After a run-scoring grounder, Adell and Oswald Peraza hit back-to-back home runs to cap the rout.

“Obviously, anytime you give up 14 runs in a game, that’s a flush-it-and-move-on type of day,” Seymour said. The Rays, who snapped a four-game losing streak with a seven-run seventh inning Friday, will look to salvage the series in the finale against the Angels.