BOSTON — The Angels’ pitching and defense let them down, keeping them from a sweep at Fenway Park.
After scoring four runs before they made an out, the Angels lost 11-9 to the Boston Red Sox on Wednesday afternoon.
Starter José Soriano, who was staked to a four-run lead before he threw a pitch, gave up five runs in the first and seven overall.
The Angels (28-33) still had one-run leads in seventh and eighth innings, but errors by Matthew Lugo and Kevin Newman led to unearned runs that tied the score twice.
Left-hander Brock Burke, who was pitching for the third time in four days, gave up a two-run homer to Ceddanne Rafaela with one out in the ninth. The ball barely cleared the fence, 308 feet from home, inside the right-field pole.
With a tapped bullpen, the perfect blueprint for the Angels would have been to score a bunch of runs, get Soriano through six or seven innings, and then let Sam Aldegheri finish with a comfortable lead.
Aldegheri, who was just called up Monday to provide some length in the bullpen, was the only reliever who hadn’t worked in the first two games of the series.
The hitters did their part, but Soriano didn’t do his.
The Angels scored four runs before they even made an out, three of them on Taylor Ward’s 17th homer of the season.
In the bottom of the first, though, Soriano gave up five runs. He allowed the first six hitters of the game to reach base, including two walks. He needed 38 pitches to get three outs.
Because of the state of the bullpen, the Angels pushed Soriano. He got them two outs into the fourth, on 99 pitches, and he left in a 7-7 game.
Both teams’ bats cooled off once the bullpens entered.
The Angels took the lead on Logan O’Hoppe’s single off the Green Monster in the fifth, and the Red Sox got the run back with an unearned run on a sacrifice fly in the seventh. Lugo, the right fielder, misplayed a ball that dropped in front of him, allowing the runner to get to third.
Chris Taylor doubled and scored on a Newman single to put the Angels back on top, 9-8, in the eighth.
Moments later, Newman, the third baseman, made an error that opened the door for another unearned run, tying the game.
Both of the unearned runs were charged to Aldegheri, who worked 2⅓ innings in his first big-league game this season.
More to come on this story.
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