Final: Red Sox 7, Angels 6 (15)

After blowing a two-run lead in the ninth inning, the Red Sox rallied late to pull out a 7-6 win over the Los Angeles Angels. Mookie Betts, who led off the game with one homer, hit another with two outs in the top of the 15th to win it.

The win was the third in a row and improved their record to 5-1 on the road trip.

The Sox led 6-4 in the ninth but closer Brandon Workman walked two and allowed an opposite-field single to Albert Pujols, which was bobbled by right fielder J.D. Martinez, allowing the tying run to score.

The Sox scored four runs in the first three innings, but then managed just two hits over the next 10 innings.

WHO: Red Sox (72-62) vs. Los Angeles Angels  (64-71)
WHEN: 10:07 p.m.
WHERE: Angel Stadium
SEASON SERIES TO DATE:  2-2
STARTING PITCHERS: RHP Nathan Eovaldi (1-0, 6.64) vs. LHP Jose Suarez (2-5, 6.67)
TV/RADIO: NESN/WEEI 93.7 FM

IN-GAME OBSERVATIONS:

2:02   The Red Sox do not have a baserunner since the sixth inning, with the Angels bullpen retiring the last 17 hitters in a row.

1:31    Ugly, ugly inning. First, two walks to start from Workman and then a costly miscue in right field by Martinez on a line drive to right, enabling the Angels to tie the game.

12:37   Brian Goodwin homes to right-center off Matt Barnes, who has allowed seven homers in just 52 innings. Last season, he allowed just five in 61.2 innings.

12:06   Red Sox get a quick run back with a leadoff single for Bogaerts and a double down the left line by J.D. Martinez, scoring Bogaerts all the way from first.

11:58  Walden was a strike away from getting out of the jam, but Pujols drives a single up the middle scoring two. That ends Taylor's scoreless streak at 13.1 innings, as both runs are charged to him.

11:52  Taylor loads the bases, but then comes back nicely and gets two huge outs -- getting Mike Trout on a popup and then Shohei Ohtani on a fielder's choice, cutting down a run at the plate. Bases still loaded, with Marcus Walden on.

11:38  That's it for Eovaldi, who goes four innings and allows a run on three hits, fans eight. But pitch count is at 81, and Josh Taylor is on.

11:12  The strikeouts continue to pile up for Eovaldi, who fans three more -- sandwiched around a solo homer to right by Brian Goodwin.

11:02 An inviting hanging breaking ball to J.D. Martinez, who deposits it into the left field seats, scoring Betts ahead of him. That's Martinez's 14th homer in his last 34 games, who has turned on the power switch in the last month.

10:48   Impressive 1-2-3 innings by Nathan Eovaldi, with two strikeouts. Critically, he needed just 13 pitches, which is big as he labored through a 27-pitch first inning.

10:37  Brock Holt shoots four-seamer the other way to left field, scoring Sam Travis with the second run.

10:27  Andrew Benintendi, back in the lineup and in left field tonight, looked like he could have caught that blooper by Albert Pujols, but the ball drops in in front of him.

10:09 Five pitches in and Mookie Betts, getting a fat 3-and-1 fastball, drives it out on a line to left. That's 19 straight games with at least one homer for the Red Sox.

LINEUPS



RED SOX

Betts CF
Devers 3B
Bogaerts SS
Martinez RF
Travis DH
Benintendi LF
Vazquez 1B
Holt 2B
Leon C

ANGELS

Goodwin LF
Trout CF
Ohtani DH
Pujols 1B
Calhoun RF
Fletcher 3B
Simmons SS
Rengifo 2b
Stassi C

 

WHAT'S UP: The Red Sox have won two straight, four of their last five and nine of their last 12...The Sox are also 6-1 in their last seven road games....They are tied for the fifth-best road winning percentage of .576 with a 38-28 mark....The Red Sox are 8-2 in their last 10 games against the Angels and have outscored them 76-33 in those 10 games while also hitting 29 homers...Wednesday was the fifth multi-homer game of the season for Xander Bogaerts, tying with him Nomar Garciaparra for most ever in a season by a Red Sox shortstop...With just over a month to go in the season, Bogaerts has already tied career highs in homers (30) doubles (46) and extra-base hits (76)...Bogaerts is the only Red Sox shortstop to ever have better than 25 homers and 45 or more doubles....The Sox have homered in 18 straight games, the third-longest streak in franchise history. The team record is 22 straight games, set in 1996...They've also homered in 30 of the last 31 games and 51 of their last 55 games...They're on a pace to finish with 255 homers, which would eclipse the franchise mark of 238 set in 2003....J.D. Martinez. over his last 33 games, leads the majors in OBP (.460), slugging percentage (.769) and OPS (1.229). He's also ranked second in batting average (.392) and RBI (36) in that same stretch. He also has 13 homers in that span. Since joining the Red Sox for the start of the 2018 season, Martinez leads the majors in RBI (217) and is third in homers (75) slugging percentage (.605), OPS (1.000) and batting average (.323)….Rafael Devers needs two more homers to give the Red Sox three players who are batting .300 or better, with 30 or more homers and 100 or more RBI. They've never had three in the same season before. Martinez and Bogaerts are, of course, the other two players...Boston has committed just eight errors in the last 26 games, dating back to July 31. That's the lowest error total for any team in either league in that span....Josh Taylor is unscored upon in his last 12.2 innings, the second-longest active streak of its kind in the American League...Since being recalled on June 14, Taylor has a 1.57 ERA, a WHIP of 0.96, and a .182 batting average against... Sandy Leon carries an 0-for-8 slump into the game is making his first start of the road trip...He has just one at-bat since the Sox left Fenway....Nathan Eovaldi will be making his seventh start of the season. The Sox are 5-1 in his first six, despite his ERA of 7.27...This is his first start against the Angels since 2016...Kole Calhoun is 4-for-10 lifetime against Eovaldi and Mike Trout is 6-for-14....The Red Sox have never faced Jose Suarez before.