Mickey Moniak’s 8th inning homer sends Angels past Red Sox

Jaime Barria pitched five scoreless innings and Mickey Moniak hit a tying run in the eighth inning. Los Angeles Angels He won 2-1 Boston Red Sox Monday night in Anaheim, California

Barria made his first start of the season after pitching 10 innings of relief. It limited the task Red Sox for two hits. He struck out six and didn’t walk a batter

Relievers Aaron Loup and Chris Devenski got the Angels until the eighth inning, and Chase Silseth finished with two scoreless innings

The only run a Red Sox The score came in the sixth inning when Connor Wong singled, went to third on a groundout and scored on Masataka Yoshida’s single, one of his two hits in the game.

THE Red Sox he had only four hits, but a Angels they only had five

The game was tied 1-1 in the bottom of the eighth when Moniak led off the inning and homered off Boston reliever Kutter Crawford (1-2). It was Moniak’s third home run since being called up from Triple-A Salt Lake on May 12.

Silseth (1-1) retired all six batters he faced in the win.

THE Angels took the lead against Red Sox starter Tanner Houck led off the second inning when Brandon Drury led off with one out, Matt Thaiss singled to third and scored on Luis Rengifo’s groundout.

Houck continued to struggle when Zach Neto was hit by a pitch and Moniak followed with a single, loading the bases for Mike Trout.

But Houck got away, striking out Trout with a slider on a 1-2 pitch.

Houck came on after the second and pitched six innings, allowing no more Angels batter to reach base, retire a Angels in the third, fourth, fifth and sixth round respectively