{"id":783223,"date":"2026-07-06T05:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T05:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/783223\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T05:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T05:24:09","slug":"duran-and-contreras-lead-red-sox-to-win-over-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/783223\/","title":{"rendered":"Duran and Contreras lead Red Sox to win over Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANAHEIM, Calif. \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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/los-angeles-angels\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"los-angeles-angels\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Los Angeles Angels<\/a> on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>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<p>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-centre off starter Ryan Johnson (1-4).<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>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-centre that left his bat at 112 mph and gave Boston a 5-3 lead.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>The Angels scored in the eighth on Donovan Walton\u2019s double and Adell\u2019s RBI single.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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. \u2014 Jarren Duran and Willson Contreras homered, and five Boston pitchers combined to give up two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-783223","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\/783223","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=783223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}