ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Jarren Duran and Willson Contreras homered, and five Boston pitchers combined to give up two runs over 6 1\/3 innings in relief of injured starter Ranger Suarez to lead the Red Sox to a 7-5 win over the Los Angeles Angels on Sunday night.<\/p>\n
Boston\u2019s eighth victory in 10 games completed a three-game sweep of the Angels, who have lost six straight and 12 of 19 since June 14.<\/p>\n
Suarez, named to the American League All-Star team Saturday, exited with two outs in the third because of left adductor tightness, an injury he sustained when he jumped for Jo Adell\u2019s chopper over the mound.<\/p>\n
The left-hander was followed by Greg Weissert (1-2), Tyron Guerrero and Garrett Whitlock, who combined for 4 1\/3 hitless innings. Justin Slaten gave up a run in the eighth, and Aroldis Chapman allowed a solo homer to Zach Neto in the ninth before earning his 18th save.<\/p>\n
The Angels scored twice in the first on Jorge Soler\u2019s grounder and Adell\u2019s RBI single. Boston tied it 2-all in the second on Duran\u2019s 13th homer, a two-run shot to right-center off starter Ryan Johnson (1-4).<\/p>\n
Neto\u2019s RBI double gave the Angels a 3-2 lead in the bottom half, but the Red Sox took advantage of Neto\u2019s major league-leading 14th error to score three unearned runs in the third.<\/p>\n
Tsung-Che Cheng led off with a bunt single. Anthony Seigler and Ceddanne Rafaela flied out, and Wilyer Abreu hit a routine grounder to shortstop that should have ended the inning.<\/p>\n
Neto bobbled the ball for an error, though, and Contreras crushed Johnson\u2019s next pitch for his 20th homer, a 446-foot shot to left-center that left his bat at 112 mph and gave Boston a 5-3 lead.<\/p>\n
The Red Sox tacked on two insurance runs in the seventh on Abreu\u2019s sacrifice fly and Masataka Yoshida\u2019s RBI single for a 7-3 advantage.<\/p>\n
The Angels scored in the eighth on Donovan Walton\u2019s double and Adell\u2019s RBI single.<\/p>\n
Red Sox: LHP Payton Tolle (4-6, 3.39 ERA) faces White Sox LHP Noah Schultz (2-5, 5.86) on Tuesday night in Chicago.<\/p>\n
Angels: RHP Jose Soriano opposes Rangers RHP Jacob deGrom (7-5, 3.48 ERA) on Tuesday night in Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Jarren Duran and Willson Contreras homered, and five Boston pitchers combined to give up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[291,24971,1113,5,1396,45846,4506,10504,604,2179,3509,3508,1093,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,792,4,10557,9500,9501,3973,9496,9497,39138,83947,90,92429,92430,7274,409,606,2052],"class_list":["post-744338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-angels","tag-angels","tag-anthony-seigler","tag-aroldis-chapman","tag-baseball","tag-ceddanne-rafaela","tag-donnie-walton","tag-garrett-whitlock","tag-greg-weissert","tag-jarren-duran","tag-jo-adell","tag-jorge-soler","tag-jose-soriano","tag-justin-slaten","tag-la","tag-la-angels","tag-laangels","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesangels","tag-masataka-yoshida","tag-mlb","tag-noah-schultz","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-payton-tolle","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40776-ap-california-sports-only","tag-product-40791-ap-massachusetts-sports-only","tag-ranger-suarez","tag-red-sox-angels-score-contreras-duran","tag-rhp-jacob-jose-soriano","tag-ryan-johnson","tag-willson-contreras","tag-wilyer-abreu","tag-zach-neto"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}