Angels 9, Red Sox 5

 

Boston gave up five runs in the first inning and four more in the eighth for their second straight 9-5 loss and third consecutive loss overall. It's back to .500 baseball (40-40). Remember that 8-2 run last week? Yeah, those were the days.

Crochet (7-4, 2.20) pitches tonight. Although he hasn't yet started a game against the Angels in a Red Sox uniform, we've won the last four games that he's started. Let's see if we can make it five as he goes up against the Angels' Tyler Anderson (2-5, 4.56). We lost to the Angels, 7-6, the last time Anderson started against us back on June 2 in Fenway, although he lasted only 4.1 innings and didn't get the win.