Willson Contreras and Jarren Duran each hit home runs as the Boston Red Sox completed a three-game series sweep of the Los Angeles Angels with a 7-5 victory on Sunday night in Anaheim, Calif.
Masataka Yoshida went 3-for-5 with an RBI and Tsung-Che Cheng had two hits and scored a run for Boston, which collected its eighth win in the last 10 games.
Right-hander Greg Weissert (1-2) earned the win with 1 1/3 innings of hitless relief and Aroldis Chapman picked up his 18th save. Boston starter Ranger Suarez, named to his second All-Star Game on Saturday, left in the third inning with left adductor tightness after stretching high for a Jo Adell comebacker. Suarez allowed three runs on six hits and struck out five with no walks over 2 2/3 innings.
Zach Neto went 3-for-5 with a home run, double and two RBIs, and Adell had three hits and two RBIs for Los Angeles, which lost its sixth straight game. Starter Ryan Johnson (1-4) suffered the loss, allowing five runs (two earned) on six hits over four innings. The right-hander walked one and struck out six.
Los Angeles jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first inning. Neto led off with a bloop single, advanced to third on a single by Denzer Guzman and scored on a fielder’s choice by Jorge Soler. One out later, Adell drove in Guzman with a single to center.
Boston tied it, 2-2, in the second on Duran’s 13th home run, a 422-foot drive to center, driving in Yoshida, who had singled.
The Angels regained the lead, 3-2, in the bottom of the second when Josh Lowe reached base on a fielder’s choice, stole second and scored on Neto’s double to left-center.
The Red Sox took advantage of a Neto fielding error to take a 5-3 lead in the third. Cheng led off with a bunt single and, two outs later, Wilyer Abreu reached base when shortstop Neto mishandled his grounder to extend the inning. Contreras then drilled the next pitch 446 feet over the bullpen in left-center for his 20th home run and a 5-3 advantage.
Boston extended the lead to 7-3 in the seventh on a sacrifice fly by Abreu and an RBI single by Yoshida.
Los Angeles closed to 7-4 in the eighth when pinch hitter Donovan Walton lined a double to right and scored on a single by Adell.
Neto finished the scoring in the ninth with a two-out solo homer off Chapman, his 19th of the season.
–Field Level Media
