Evan Longoria homered twice, Dioner Navarro homered once, and the Tampa Bay Rays beat up on Angels pitcher Joe Saunders to win 13-4 yesterday.

Somewhere, Mike Podhorzer is smiling, as his Razzball pickup Joe Saunders looked ready for the wide-, loud-, and long-predicted regression from his hot start, giving up three consecutive home runs in the second inning to Longoria, Willy Aybar, and Navarro. Saunders held on for 4.2 innings, and managed to strike out four while walking two, but the Rays ran scrimmage on him with nine hits and eight runs. The outing was enough to raise Saunders’ ERA from 2.63 to 3.32, though it was only his third loss of the season. In case you needed any reminding, his xFIP is still at 4.53, so more starts like this are to be expected.

Longoria is now leading AL rookies in home runs, and, thanks to some streaky performances, is batting .255 with a .333 OBP and .484 slugging percentage. Navarro, meanwhile, continues to hit like a scary bat-wielding baseball monster, with a .349 average, .381 OPB, and .474 SLG. Two of his three home runs have come in the last week, a span that he opened by batting second in the order on June 3rd. Plainly, his batting average leads the team, though having spent some time out with an injury, Navarro doesn’t quite qualify for the 3.1 plate appearances per team game required to rank on the league leaderboard.