{"id":387651,"date":"2026-07-06T06:31:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T06:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/387651\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T06:31:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T06:31:23","slug":"angels-drop-sixth-straight-to-jarren-duran-and-red-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/387651\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels drop sixth straight to Jarren Duran and Red Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jarren Duran and Willson Contreras homered, and five Boston pitchers combined to give up two runs over 6\u2153 innings in relief of injured starter Ranger Suarez to lead the Red Sox to a 7-5<\/a> win over the Angels<\/a> on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

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

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<\/a>\u2019s chopper over the mound.<\/p>\n

The left-hander was followed by Greg Weissert (1-2), Tyron Guerrero and Garrett Whitlock, who combined for 4\u2153 hitless innings. Justin Slaten gave up a run in the eighth, and Aroldis Chapman gave up a solo homer to Zach Neto in the ninth before earning his 18th save.<\/p>\n

The Angels scored twice in the first on Jorge Soler\u2019s grounder and Adell\u2019s RBI single. Boston tied it 2-2 in the second on Duran\u2019s 13th homer, a two-run shot to right-center off starter Ryan Johnson<\/a> (1-4).<\/p>\n

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

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

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-center that left his bat at 112 mph and gave Boston a 5-3 lead.<\/p>\n

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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

The Angels scored in the eighth on Donovan Walton\u2019s double and Adell\u2019s RBI single.<\/p>\n

Up next for the 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":"Jarren Duran and Willson Contreras homered, and five Boston pitchers combined to give up two runs over 6\u2153…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[41016,1426,156298,156299,80925,14506,48,52,51,5814,47,50,49,117114,21092,15958,2668,6949,80924,100915,14504],"class_list":["post-387651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-advantage","tag-angels","tag-boston-pitcher","tag-grounder","tag-jarren-duran","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-next-pitch","tag-rbi-single","tag-red-sox","tag-run","tag-third","tag-willson-contreras","tag-wilyer-abreu","tag-zach-neto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387651","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=387651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}