Angels 6, Royals 2: David Freese finished 3-for-4 with three RBIs and sparked a four-run sixth inning with a two-run single as Los Angeles waited out a long rain delay to even up its three-game set in Kansas City.

Kole Calhoun collected three hits and scored twice while Albert Pujols tallied a pair of RBI singles for the Angels, who won for the seventh time in eight tries. Los Angeles starter Hector Santiago tossed four scoreless frames, but came up one inning short of qualifying for a win that would have snapped his personal nine-game losing streak when the game was delayed three hours, 58 minutes, allowing Mike Morin (2-1) to pick up the decision.

Yordano Ventura (5-7), who entered the game tied with the New York Yankees’ Masahiro Tanaka for the most quality starts among major-league rookies (10), suffered his second consecutive loss after permitting two runs on seven hits over four innings. Salvador Perez and Omar Infante each drove in a run for Kansas City, which has dropped seven of nine.

Calhoun sparked Los Angeles’ offense in the third with a two-out double and moved ahead to third on Mike Trout’s infield single before Pujols floated a soft liner just over the outstretched glove of Infante at second to bring home the first run. Howie Kendrick doubled with one out in the fourth and C.J. Cron followed with a single ahead of Freese, who singled on a sharp grounder to left to make it 2-0.

The Angels put it away in the sixth against Bruce Chen when Freese followed a leadoff single by Erick Aybar and a walk to Howie Kendrick with a two-run single to center before Calhoun and Pujols capped the explosive frame with run-scoring singles. Perez got Kansas City on the board in the sixth with an RBI single and Infante added another run moments later with a sacrifice fly.

GAME NOTEBOOK: The game was delayed twice due to rain, the first time for six minutes before first pitch and again after the end of the fourth. … Chen was roughed up for four runs over five inning in his first relief outing of the season, but fanned eight – matching his highest strikeout total since Aug. 3, 2013. … Santiago lowered his ERA to 0.90 in 10 all-time appearances (four starts) against the Royals.