Red Sox win on shortest walk-off HR since 2015

BOSTON -- Ceddanne Rafaela curled a location tally astir the Pesky Pole successful the bottommost of the ninth inning connected Wednesday, and the Boston Red Sox rallied aft trailing 4 antithetic times to bushed the Los Angeles Angels 11-9.

The location tally to close tract was conscionable 308 feet, making it the shortest walk-off homer successful the Statcast epoch (since 2015) -- 24 feet shorter than the adjacent closest.

It would person been a location tally successful lone 1 large league ballpark -- Fenway. And it was the second-shortest HR by immoderate subordinate wrong the Statcast era, the lone shorter 1 being by the San Francisco Giants' Stephen Vogt (307 feet connected Sept. 18, 2019, astatine Fenway).

The Angels blew 4-0, 7-5, 8-7 and 9-8 leads, with Rafael Devers bouncing a chopper betwixt the gloves of 2nd baseman Chris Taylor and shortstop Zach Neto down 2nd basal to necktie it 9-9 successful the eighth.

Each of the archetypal 3 times the Red Sox scored, Los Angeles answered with runs of its own. But aft walking Mike Trout to pb disconnected the ninth, Cooper Criswell (1-0) got the adjacent 3 batters retired to springiness Boston a accidental to locomotion it off.

In the bottommost half, Abraham Toro singled with 1 retired and Rafaela deed the 308-foot liner implicit the abbreviated partition that goes from the foul rod toward the bullpens successful right.

Rafaela became the youngest Red Sox subordinate (24 years, 259 days) with a walk-off HR implicit the past 25 years.

Taylor Ward had 4 RBIs for the Angels, who were going for the three-game sweep.

Information from ESPN Research and The Associated Press was utilized successful this report.