Angels: Jo Adell’s home run drought ended all at once Thursday as he hit two of the Angels’ four homers in an eight-run fifth inning against the Rays on Thursday in Tampa, Florida. Adell hit Zack Littell’s first-pitch slider 408 feet out to center leading off the inning and ended it with a three-run shot to left off Mason Englert. In between, Taylor Ward hit his second homer of the game and Mike Trout hit the first of his two in the game as the Angels finished the fifth with a 10-1 lead. Four homers in an inning matched the franchise record. They won 11-1. Adell, who hit a career-high 20 homers last season, came into Thursday batting .185 with no homers. He was the first Angels player since Kendrys Morales in 2012 to homer twice in an inning and the third player in franchise history to do it. The Athletics’ Brent Rooker was the only player in the majors to homer twice in an inning last season.

Blue Jays: Vladimir Guerrero’s yearly salaries are front-loaded under the 14-year, $500 million contract he agreed to this week with the Blue Jays, a deal that covers 2026-39. A four-time All-Star first baseman, Guerrero receives a record $325 million signing bonus payable from 2025-39, according to contract details obtained by the AP. After earning $28.5 million this year under a one-year deal agreed to in January, Guerrero gets salaries of $17 million each in 2026 and ’27, $16 million in 2028, $15 million in 2029, $14.5 million apiece in 2030, ’31 and ’32, $12.5 million each in 2033 and ’34, $11.5 million in 2035, $10.5 million in 2036, $7 million in 2037, $6.5 million in 2038 and $6 million in 2039. He gets a full no-trade provision and a hotel suite on road trips.

Minors: Emaarion Boyd became the first minor league player in at least 20 years to steal six bases in a game without getting a hit when he pulled off the feat for High-A Beloit (Wisconsin) against Cedar Rapids. Boyd, batting ninth and playing center field in the 10-0 win Wednesday night, reached on a fielder’s choice, walk and hit by pitch. He stole second and third base each time. He walked again with none out in the ninth inning but couldn’t steal any more bases because a runner was in front of him. “I thought it would be even more crazy if I got eight,” Boyd told the AP on Thursday. “I wish I could have had two more. It would have been really crazy then.” Boyd was an 11th-round pick by the Phillies in the 2022 Major League Baseball amateur draft. He was part of a December trade for left-handed pitcher Jesús Luzardo that sent Boyd to the Marlins. The 21-year-old has 98 steals in 203 minor league games, with 83 in 187 games over the 2023 and 2024 seasons at Single-A Clearwater and High-A Jersey Shore. “I just really try to be better than the pitcher and catcher when I get on base and get a good enough or perfect jump,” he said, “and then I use my God-given talent.” According to MLB.com, no minor league player since at least 2005 had stolen six bases without getting a hit. Boyd also stole six bases in a game for Clearwater in 2023, but he had a hit. No player has stolen six bases with no hits in a major league game since at least 1901.