BOSTON — Ceddanne Rafaela curled a house run across the Pesky Pole within the backside of the ninth inning on Wednesday, and the Boston Red Sox rallied after trailing 4 completely different occasions to beat the Los Angeles Angels 11-9.
The house run to proper discipline was simply 308 ft, making it the shortest walk-off homer within the Statcast period (since 2015) — 24 ft shorter than the subsequent closest.
It will have been a house run in just one main league ballpark — Fenway. And it was the second-shortest HR by any participant inside the Statcast period, the one shorter one being by the San Francisco Giants‘ Stephen Vogt (307 ft on Sept. 18, 2019, at Fenway).
The Angels blew 4-0, 7-5, 8-7 and 9-8 leads, with Rafael Devers bouncing a chopper between the gloves of second baseman Chris Taylor and shortstop Zach Neto behind second base to tie it 9-9 within the eighth.
Every of the primary 3 times the Purple Sox scored, Los Angeles answered with runs of its personal. However after strolling Mike Trout to steer off the ninth, Cooper Criswell (1-0) bought the subsequent three batters out to offer Boston an opportunity to stroll it off.
Within the backside half, Abraham Toro singled with one out and Rafaela hit the 308-foot liner over the brief wall that goes from the foul pole towards the bullpens in proper.
Rafaela turned the youngest Purple Sox participant (24 years, 259 days) with a walk-off HR over the previous 25 years.
Taylor Ward had 4 RBIs for the Angels, who have been going for the three-game sweep.
Info from ESPN Analysis and The Related Press was used on this report.