{"id":386753,"date":"2026-07-05T06:25:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T06:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/386753\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T06:25:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T06:25:22","slug":"sonny-gray-red-sox-send-angels-to-their-fifth-consecutive-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/386753\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonny Gray, Red Sox send Angels to their fifth consecutive loss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Willson Contreras<\/a> and Romy Gonzalez<\/a> homered to back the superb pitching of Sonny Gray<\/a>, who gave up one run and four hits in six innings of the Boston Red Sox\u2019s 8-1 win<\/a> over the Angels<\/a> on Saturday night at Angel Stadium.<\/p>\n

Wilyer Abreu added a two-run double, and relievers Jovani Mor\u00e1n, Greg Weissert and Alec Gamboa combined for three hitless innings for the Red Sox (39-48), who have won seven of nine games. The Angels (36-54) have lost five straight and 11 of 17 since June 17.<\/p>\n

Gray (10-1) induced two of Boston\u2019s three double-play grounders, struck out seven and walked one. The 36-year-old right-hander has six straight quality starts since May 30, a stretch in which he\u2019s gone 5-0 with a 1.97 ERA.<\/p>\n

Though he leads the American League in wins and ranks second with a 2.61 ERA, Gray was not named to the AL All-Star team Saturday.<\/p>\n

Angels starter Sam Aldegheri (3-4) walked two ahead of Contreras\u2019 19th homer, a 421-foot blast to left-center that gave Boston a 3-0 lead in the first.<\/p>\n

Josh Lowe\u2019s one-out homer pulled the Angels to within 3-1 in the second. Jo Adell walked, and Wade Meckler singled, but Gray struck out Donovan Walton and Tyler Heineman to escape the jam.<\/p>\n

Aldegheri did not give up a hit in the second, third and fourth, but with his pitch count at 88, he was pulled in favor of left-hander Samy Natera Jr., who gave up one run in his first nine big-league games.<\/p>\n

Anthony Seigler led off the fifth with a double, Ceddanne Rafaela walked, and Abreu slammed a two-run double off the right-field wall for a 5-1 lead.<\/p>\n

Gonzalez, robbed of a potential first-inning homer when Adell made a leaping catch of his drive above the wall in right, followed with a towering, 368-foot fly that cleared the short left-field wall for his first homer of the season and a 7-1 lead. Rafaela\u2019s RBI single in the eighth made it 8-1.<\/p>\n

Up next: Red Sox LHP Ranger Suarez (4-3, 2.94 ERA) will oppose Angels RHP Ryan Johnson (1-3, 7.40) in Sunday night\u2019s series finale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Willson Contreras and Romy Gonzalez homered to back the superb pitching of Sonny Gray, who gave up one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[14541,1426,10665,112207,23932,14506,48,52,51,5814,47,50,49,15958,155896,155892,278,111871,80924,100915,1543],"class_list":["post-386753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-angel","tag-angels","tag-era","tag-fifth-consecutive-loss","tag-innings","tag-jo-adell","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lead","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-red-sox","tag-right-field-wall","tag-romy-gonzalez","tag-season","tag-sonny-gray","tag-willson-contreras","tag-wilyer-abreu","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}