TNK - Boston Red Sox Franchise
Game #37 of Season
Los Angeles Angels (13-20) @ Boston Red Sox (22-14)
Pitching Matchup - Shohei Ohtani vs Eduardo Rodriguez
The Angels would strike quick in the top if the 1st when Justin Upton ripped a RBI single into LF to give LA the 1-0 lead. Eduardo Rodriguez settled in after a rocky 1st inning and was through 5 innings with no further damage while Shohei Ohtani was mowing down the Red Sox until the bottom of the 5th when Rafael Devers smoked a line drive that kept carrying to right-center and sailed over the wall into the Red Sox bullpen for a 2-run HR to give Boston a 2-1. Ohtani would register his 11th K to end the bottom fo the 5th and we would go to the 6th inning with the Red Sox leading 2-1. The Angels answered in the top of the 6th with a RBI double from Upton to tie it up 2-2 and Andrelton Simmons would hit a sac fly to score a run putting Los Angeles up 3-2. Ohtani picked up two more Ks in the bottom of the 6th giving him 13 Ks through 6 innings. Ryan Buchter took over for LA in the bottom of the 7th and Verdugo would reach on an error by Rendon at 3rd base with 1 out. Verdugo moved up to 2nd base on a high chopper to 1st base by Bradley and Andrew Benintendi would smoke a liner up the middle with two outs for a RBI single as Verdugo just beat the throw to the plate by Trout tying the game 3-3. The Angels had two men on in the top of the 8th but Brasier would get Simmons to bounce into an inning ending 6-4-3 double play. Boston stranded the bases loaded in the bottom of the 8th as Middleton would get Vazquez to fly out and we would head to the 9th inning tied 3-3. Brian Goodwin doubled to start the top of the 9th and Josh Taylor would come in to replace Brasier on the mound. Goodwin advanced to 3rd on a deep fly out by Castro and Michael Hermosillo would lay down a perfectly executed squeeze bunt to score Goodwin and give the Angels a 4-3 lead. Hansel Robles would work around a lead off double by Verdugo in the bottom of the 9th getting Devers to fly out deep to LF for the final out as the Angels hold on for a 4-3 win
* The Red Sox drop the opener of this series 4-3 to the Angels in close game that went to the 9th inning tied 3-3 before LA scored the go ahead run in the top of the 9th on a squeeze play and Hansel Robles closed it out in the bottom half
* The Red Sox fall to 22-15 with the loss while the Angels improve to 14-20
* The Red Sox defense committed 3 errors in this game but luckily none of them led to unearned runs
* Shohei Ohtani had electric stuff for the Angels in this game as he pitched 6 innings allowing 2 runs on 5 hits while racking up 13 strikeouts
* Eduardo Rodriguez pitched 6.2 inning allowing 3 runs on 5 hits with 2 walks and 5 Ks
* Justin Upton was 2 for 4 with a double & 2 RBI to lead the Angels offense
* Rafael Devers went 1 for 5 with a HR & 2 RBI and is now hitting .297 with 8 HR & 30 RBI on the season
* Xander Bogaerts doubled in the 1st inning to extend his hitting streak to 13 games
* The Red Sox and Angels will play the 2nd game of this series tomorrow with Nathan Eovaldi set to face Dylan Bundy on the mound
<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><link href="http://dynasties.operationsports.com/css/osdyn.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"></head><body><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn" width="575"><tr class="masthead"><td align="center" colspan="13">Los Angeles Angels at Boston Red Sox</td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td width="40%">May 5, 2020</td><td align="right" width="5%">1</td><td align="right" width="5%">2</td><td align="right" width="5%">3</td><td align="right" width="5%">4</td><td align="right" width="5%">5</td><td align="right" width="5%">6</td><td align="right" width="5%">7</td><td align="right" width="5%">8</td><td align="right" width="5%">9</td><td align="right" width="5%">R</td><td align="right" width="5%">H</td><td align="right" width="5%">E</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Los Angeles (14-20)</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right" class="active">4</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right">1</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Boston (22-15)</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">3</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="right">3</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td align="center" colspan="13"><b>W:</b> Keynan Middleton (3-1) <b>L:</b> Ryan Brasier (0-2) <b>S:</b> Hansel Robles (3)</td></tr></table><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn spacer" width="575"><tr class="masthead"><td colspan="5">Scoring Summary</td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td colspan="3" width="84%">SCORING DETAILS</td><td align="right" width="8%">LAA</td><td align="right" width="8%">BOS</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td align="center" width="7%">LAA</td><td align="center" width="7%">1</td><td width="70%">Justin Upton singled to LF (La Stella scores)</td><td align="right" width="8%">1</td><td align="right" width="8%">0</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td align="center" width="7%">BOS</td><td align="center" width="7%">5</td><td width="70%">Rafael Devers 2-run HR to RF (Benintendi scores)</td><td align="right" width="8%">1</td><td align="right" width="8%">2</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td align="center" width="7%">LAA</td><td align="center" width="7%">6</td><td width="70%">Justin Upton doubled to RF (Trout scores)</td><td align="right" width="8%">2</td><td align="right" width="8%">2</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td align="center" width="7%">LAA</td><td align="center" width="7%">6</td><td width="70%">Andrelton Simmons sac fly to LF (Rendon scores)</td><td align="right" width="8%">3</td><td align="right" width="8%">2</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td align="center" width="7%">BOS</td><td align="center" width="7%">7</td><td width="70%">Andrew Benintendi singled to CF (Verdugo scores)</td><td align="right" width="8%">3</td><td align="right" width="8%">3</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td align="center" width="7%">LAA</td><td align="center" width="7%">9</td><td width="70%">Michael Hermosillo squeeze bunt to 1B (Goodwin scores)</td><td align="right" width="8%">4</td><td align="right" width="8%">3</td></tr></table><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn spacer" width="575"><tr class="masthead_alt"><td bgcolor="#CE0F41" colspan="9"><span style="color:#FFFFFF">Los Angeles Angels</span></td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td width="41%">HITTERS</td><td align="right" width="7%">AB</td><td align="right" width="7%">R</td><td align="right" width="7%">H</td><td align="right" width="7%">RBI</td><td align="right" width="7%">BB</td><td align="right" width="7%">SO</td><td align="right" width="7%">HR</td><td align="right" width="10%">AVG</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>La Stella, 2B</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.304</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Trout.CF</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.333</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Rendon, 3B</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.321</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Pujols, 1B</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.220</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Upton, RF</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.296</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Simmons, SS</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.217</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Goodwin, DH</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.310</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Castro, C</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.206</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Hermosillio, LF</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.187</td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td>TEAM TOTALS</td><td align="right">34</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"></td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td colspan="9"><b><u>BATTING:</u></b><br /><b>2B:</b> Upton (5), Goodwin (10), La Stella (4)<br /><b>RBI:</b> Upton 2 (19), Hermosillo (4), Simmons (14)<br /><b>SF:</b> Simmons<br /><b>GIDP:</b> Simmons</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td colspan="9"><b><u>BASERUNNING:</u></b><br /><b>SB:</b> Goodwin (3)</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td colspan="9"><b><u>FIELDING:</u></b><br /><b>E:</b> Rendon (3)</td></tr></table><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn spacer" width="575"><tr class="masthead_alt"><td bgcolor="#0D1B3F" colspan="9"><span style="color:#ee1422">Boston Red Sox</span></td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td width="41%">HITTERS</td><td align="right" width="7%">AB</td><td align="right" width="7%">R</td><td align="right" width="7%">H</td><td align="right" width="7%">RBI</td><td align="right" width="7%">BB</td><td align="right" width="7%">SO</td><td align="right" width="7%">HR</td><td align="right" width="10%">AVG</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Benintendi, LF</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.318</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Devers, 3B</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right" class="active">.297</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Bogaerts, SS</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.355</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Martinez, DH</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.241</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Moreland, 1B</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.200</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Chavis, 2B</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.246</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Vazquez, C</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.316</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Verdugo, RF</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.250</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Bradley, CF</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right" class="active">.234</td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td>TEAM TOTALS</td><td align="right">36</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">17</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right"></td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td colspan="9"><b><u>BATTING:</u></b><br /><b>2B:</b> Bogaerts (17), Chavis (6), Verdugo (11)<br /><b>HR:</b> Devers (8)<br /><b>RBI:</b> Devers 2 (30), Benintendi (15)</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td colspan="9"><b><u>BASERUNNING:</u></b><br /><b>CS:</b> Benintendi (4)</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td colspan="9"><b><u>FIELDING:</u></b><br /><b>E:</b> Verdugo (1), Bogaerts (2), Devers (5)</td></tr></table><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn spacer" width="575"><tr class="masthead_alt"><td bgcolor="#CE0F41" colspan="9"><span style="color:#FFFFFF">Los Angeles Angels</span></td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td width="41%">PITCHERS</td><td align="right" width="7%">IP</td><td align="right" width="7%">H</td><td align="right" width="7%">R</td><td align="right" width="7%">ER</td><td align="right" width="7%">BB</td><td align="right" width="7%">SO</td><td align="right" width="7%">HR</td><td align="right" width="10%">ERA</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Shohei Ohtani</td><td align="right">6.0</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">13</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right" class="active">4.59</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Ryan Buchter (BS, 2)</td><td align="right">1.0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">2.10</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Keynan Middleton (W, 3-1)</td><td align="right">1.0</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">2.81</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Hansel Robles (S, 3)</td><td align="right">1.0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">5.00</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td colspan="9"><b><u>PITCHING:</u></b><br /><b>Pitches-Strikes:</b> Ohtani - 90 Pitches / 71% Strikes</td></tr></table><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn spacer" width="575"><tr class="masthead_alt"><td bgcolor="#0D1B3F" colspan="9"><span style="color:#ee1422">Boston Red Sox</span></td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td width="41%">PITCHERS</td><td align="right" width="7%">IP</td><td align="right" width="7%">H</td><td align="right" width="7%">R</td><td align="right" width="7%">ER</td><td align="right" width="7%">BB</td><td align="right" width="7%">SO</td><td align="right" width="7%">HR</td><td align="right" width="10%">ERA</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Eduardo Rodriguez</td><td align="right">6.2</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">2.82</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Ryan Brasier (L, 0-2)</td><td align="right">1.1</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">3.00</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Josh Taylor</td><td align="right">1.0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">2.08</td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td>TEAM TOTALS</td><td align="right">9.0</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"></td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td colspan="9"><b><u>PITCHING:</u></b><br /><b>Pitches-Strikes:</b> Rodriguez - 99 Pitches / 71% 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