{"id":779261,"date":"2026-07-04T06:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T06:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/779261\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T06:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T06:38:09","slug":"aroldis-chapman-sets-relief-strikeout-record-boston-red-sox-stifle-los-angeles-angels-in-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/779261\/","title":{"rendered":"Aroldis Chapman sets relief strikeout record, Boston Red Sox stifle Los Angeles Angels in win"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Aroldis Chapman<\/a> set the major league record for relief strikeouts after rookie Jake Bennett<\/a> yielded five hits while pitching into the eighth inning for the Boston Red Sox<\/a> in a 5-2 victory over the Los Angeles Angels<\/a> on Friday night.<\/p>\n

The 38-year-old Chapman broke Hoyt Wilhelm\u2019s record with his 1,364th career strikeout as a reliever when he fanned Denzer Guzman<\/a> leading off the ninth. The knuckleballing Wilhelm last pitched in 1972.<\/p>\n

Chapman allowed back-to-back singles after his milestone strikeout, but got Jo Adell<\/a> to ground into a double play to secure his 17th save.<\/p>\n

Caleb Durbin<\/a> hit a solo homer in the opener of a nine-game trip for the Red Sox, who have won six of eight.<\/p>\n

In just his seventh career start, Bennett (3-3) struck out six with no walks while dominating the last-place Angels until the their two-run eighth.<\/p>\n

Six days after the Yankees\u2019 first 15 batters couldn\u2019t get a hit off Bennett, the lanky left-hander retired the Angels\u2019 first 13 batters before Vaughn Grissom<\/a>\u2019s fifth-inning single.<\/p>\n

Bennett retired 22 of LA\u2019s first 24 batters before Jose Siri<\/a> homered in the eighth for the Angels, who have lost four straight.<\/p>\n

Zach Neto<\/a> added a two-out RBI single moments later to chase Bennett, but Garre.<\/p>\n

Reid Detmers<\/a> (3-6) struggled through five innings while taking his first loss in eight starts since May 19 for Los Angeles, yielding five runs on seven hits and three walks.<\/p>\n

Romy Gonzalez<\/a> had three hits and drove in two runs for Boston. Durbin added his eighth homer leading off the fifth.<\/p>\n

Angels catcher Logan O\u2019Hoppe was removed from the game and evaluated after taking a foul ball off his mask in the third. O\u2019Hoppe went on the concussion injured list last September after getting accidentally hit by a backswing, and he went through the concussion protocol again two months ago after a home plate collision with Texas\u2019 Josh Jung<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Sam Aldegheri<\/a> (3-3, 4.85 ERA) pitches for the Angels on Saturday, facing Boston\u2019s Sonny Gray<\/a> (9-1, 2.69 ERA).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/mlb<\/p>\n

Greg Beacham, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Aroldis Chapman set the major league record for relief strikeouts after rookie Jake Bennett…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-779261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}