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ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Jerome Williams got back into the win column for the first time in more than 2 1-2 months. The fact that he beat reigning AL Cy Young Award winner David Price and the contending Tampa Bay Rays made it that much sweeter. Collin Cowgill hit a three-run double, one of 11 hits the Los Angeles Angels had against Price through his first 2 1-3 innings, and Williams ended a streak of eight straight losing decisions in a 6-2 victory over the Rays on Thursday night. "I thought our guys did a great job in some situation hitting with guys on base against a tough pitcher," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "David Price is as tough of a left-handed pitcher as youre going to face, but our left-handed hitters hung in there. We had great at-bats tonight, and David Price had to work for every out." Williams (6-10) allowed two runs and six hits over 6 1-3 innings, struck out seven and walked two as the Angels earned a split of the four-game series. The right-hander was winless in his previous 13 starts with a 6.58 ERA since winning at Baltimore on June 12. His eight straight defeats were the most by an Angel since 1993, when Scott Sanderson was 0-9 in his final 11 starts with the club before San Francisco claimed him off waivers. "I just wanted to put up zeroes and keep the guys in the hunt for a win," Williams said. "Im just going out here and doing my job, trying to do my best. Whatever happens, happens, as long as at the end of the day and the end of the season I can look myself in the mirror and say: I did OK. Thats fine." Price (8-7) was charged with six runs while striking out six. The three-time All-Star left-hander, who won a career-high 20 games last season, has lost consecutive starts for the first time since dropping three straight from July 20-Aug. 2, 2011. "He made some bad pitches at the wrong times," manager Joe Maddon said. "He was off with some of his off-speed stuff. He was just missing early. Then he really settled in and pitched extremely well after that." The Angels built a 6-2 lead through the third, and everyone in the starting lineup had at least one hit by then. Price didnt give up another hit after Kole Calhouns RBI single in the third, retiring 14 of his final 15 batters. "I got better as the game went along, but 11 hits and a walk through three innings is pretty rough," Price said. "Its frustrating when you go out there and dont perform well for your team." The Angels opened the third with five consecutive hits, including a leadoff single by Mike Trout, who was picked off and then thrown out at second. Mark Trumbo and Luis Jimenez both doubled during the rally, and Josh Hamilton had an RBI single. Jimenez scored on a fielders choice grounder by Grant Green. Los Angeles put runners at the corners in the first with none out, but Price escaped that jam unscathed. "I made pitches to get out of the first inning, but I didnt in the second and third and they made me pay," Price said. "Ive got to make better pitches earlier in the count." But the Angels loaded the bases with one out in the second, after third baseman Evan Longoria played Greens high chopper near the bag on the second hop and was too late to get the force on the sliding Hamilton. Cowgill then cleared the bases with double to the gap in left-centre on a 2-2 pitch, doubling his RBI total in his 29th game and 52nd at-bat with the Angels following the June 25 trade from the New York Mets. The Rays got on the board in the third when James Loney hit a two-run double high off the 18-foot high wall in right-centre with two outs, after David DeJesus and Ben Zobrist opened the inning with singles. Loney, who had consecutive 90-RBI seasons with the Dodgers in 2008-09, raised his season total to 62 with his 200th career double. The Rays ninth loss in 12 games, coupled with Bostons 9-8 win at New York, dropped Tampa Bay 6 1-2 games behind the AL East-leading Red Sox. Those teams will meet next week in a three-game series at Tropicana Field after the Rays complete their 10-game West Coast trip with three at Seattle. NOTES: Three-time Gold Glove 2B Bobby Knoop was inducted into the Angels Hall of Fame in a pregame ceremony, joining a select fraternity that includes 1960s keystone partner and ex-roommate Jim Fregosi -- who caught Knoops ceremonial first pitch. The other members are Nolan Ryan, Rod Carew, Brian Downing, Chuck Finley, Don Baylor, Bobby Grich, original owner Gene Autry, longtime conditioning coach Jimmie Reese, and the entire 2002 World Series championship club. ... The Angels, who eclipsed last seasons loss total of 73 on Wednesday, need to go no worse than 8-15 to avoid the teams first 90-loss finish in Scioscias 14 seasons as manager. Cheap Dolphins Jerseys China . 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Arizona running back Andre Ellington is banged up and may not play and the Cardinals have quite a cast of unknowns backing him up.Of course, even the unknowns have been gouging Kansas City the past few weeks.It all started with Marshawn Lynch and the Seattle Seahawks, and perhaps the Chiefs defence could be forgiven for allowing them to run wild. But it was Latavius Murray who ransacked them for Oakland the following week and C.J. Anderson who turned the trick for Denver last Sunday.Not exactly a pair of household names.So even though Ellington could miss Sundays game with what coach Bruce Arians called a severe hip pointer, all that really means is that Marion Grice, Stepfan Taylor and Robert Hughes will be spending this week licking their chops at the prospect of facing Kansas City.Its really a mindset, Chiefs defensive tackle Dontari Poe said, when asked about stuffing the run. We have to wrap up. Thats something we have to practice on and do it in the game.Thats not such an easy thing to do these days.Even though tackling is the one of the most basic fundamentals of football — and perhaps the biggest reason why Kansas City hasnt been able to slow the run — it is virtually impossible to address this time of year. Teams are limited in the amount of time they can spend in pads, and few coaches are willing to risk an injury to key players by tackling this late in the season.Besides, tackling should be second-nature by the time players reach the NFL, much less reach Week 14 of the season. Its hard to spend more time on it in the midst of a playoff push.We havent done too well on it, Chiefs coach Andy Reid acknowledged. Thats something were going to put an emphasis on the best you can right now. There are a lot of things we need to be better at. Ive said that even when we were winning games. You have to keep improving and then youre going to go through ups and downs and you work through those.One of those things is tackling, Reid added. Well do everything we can (in practice) without going live to take care of it.ddddddddddddThe Chiefs have given up 597 yards rushing the last three weeks, the third-most over a span that long this season, according to STATS. The only two stretches worse belong to the Giants, whose two streaks are skewed by 350 yards rushing that Seattle posted on them last month.Its also the most yards the Chiefs have allowed on the ground over a three-week span since the end of the 2009 season, when they allowed 695 yards in Weeks 14-16.So much of it is gap control and how you handle that, and staying disciplined in your gaps, Reid said. Teams are going to try to distort that linebacker level ... to create seams, and its our responsibility to stay as square as we can and take away those lanes for runners.Runners in this league dont need a lot of room, Reid explained, so you try to constrict that. And then tackling becomes another part of that. If teams do get to the perimeter, or do get to the secondary level or linebacker level, you have to be sure you negate the longer run. That also comes into the picture.Injuries also have played a part of the ineffectiveness of the Chiefs rush defence.Leading tackler Derrick Johnson and defensive tackle Mike DeVito were lost for the season when they tore their respective Achilles tendons in their opener against Tennessee. Another inside linebacker, Joe Mays, broke a bone in his hand and has missed much of the season.We do miss those players. People dont realize how good of a player Derrick Johnson is until hes not in the lineup, fellow linebacker Tamba Hali said. He made a lot of plays. But we have to rally around the guys we have right now.In a hurry, too. The Chiefs have lost two straight and are slipping out of playoff contention with just four games left in the regular season.Its all a mindset, Hali said. We have to harp on it a little bit and just execute. Its fundamental. And these last couple of weeks that have gone by, we havent been technically right in our gaps. And were going to straighten it out. ' ' '