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BOSTON – Exactly fivesome hours of activity time. solon than 2 1/2 hours of fall delay. A total of 14 pitchers and 13 innings.

And, finally, digit deciding swing.

Bobby Abreu impact a two-run, two-out azygos soured first-time person Daisuke Matsuzaka in the 13th and the Los Angeles Angels closed discover a 5-3 victory over the Beantown Red Sox at 2:45 a.m. on the East Coast on Thursday.

"It was a mettlesome where there could have been whatever letdown," Angels trainer Mike Scioscia said, "but the guys hung in there and came discover in the end."

Boston, hitless for the prototypal 6 1-3 innings, equal the reason with digit runs in the ordinal play and nearly won it in the 12th against Trevor discoverer (1-0), but Marco Scutaro was tangled discover at the bag disagreeable to reason from prototypal on Kevin Youkilis' threefold broad soured the surround in left.

"I intellection that was the ball game," discoverer said. "I started to achievement soured the field."

Daniel Bard, who pitched the 11th and 12th for Boston, was primed to move on it.

"When I saw the ball by Youkilis soured the wall, I was on the crowning travel primed to celebrate," he said. "It took a amend passage to intend him. ... They're battleful mistakes. I'd kinda wager that than the another artefact around."

Youkilis modern on Darnell McDonald's parcel single, but Jed Lowrie grounded out.

Running discover of pitchers, Beantown trainer Terry Francona turned to Matsuzaka (2-3) as his ordinal person of the period — and morning. Matsuzaka, who has started 103 games in fivesome seasons with the Red Sox, given a leadoff azygos to Howie Kendrick. Vernon author flied discover and Jeff Mathis popped up, but saint Bourjos singled and Erick Aybar walked to load the bases.

"It took a aggregation of guts on his part," Bard said of Matsuzaka. "He took digit for the team."

Abreu, who had been 0 for 6 with digit strikeouts, then unsmooth his azygos to right-center field.

"Bobby actually impact the ball pretty well," Scioscia said. "He didn't have a aggregation to exhibit for it."

His hit, though, gave the Angels their prototypal win over the Red Sox in seven games this flavour and kept them equal for prototypal in the AL West with the Texas Rangers. The Red Sox uncomprehensible a quantity to reach .500 for the prototypal instance this assemblage as their winning streak ended at threesome games.

The mettlesome had been broken by a stabilize fall after Josh author struck discover Kendrick leading soured the fifth, and author didn't convey after the delay.

Los Angeles official Ervin Santana was dominant for quaternary innings, striking discover seven and issuing digit walk.

"I was really in bidding of every of my pitches," he said. "No matter what instance it is, we stayed together. At the end, we got it."

Rich archaeologist replaced him when the mettlesome resumed and pitched 1 2-3 hitless innings before Scott Downs retired the terminal batsman in the sixth. Downs also got the prototypal discover in the ordinal before Lowrie got Boston's prototypal impact on a decent azygos to right.

The travail of rescheduling the mettlesome — the series finish is weekday salutation and the teams had no ordinary soured day — led to the unusually long fall delay.

"Sitting around's the poorest conception for everyone," said Jason Varitek, who caught every 13 innings for Boston. "It is late. Both teams grinded a aggregation tonight."

In the lowermost of the seventh, a lucre gathering was at impact in the mostly blank bleachers. And by the end, exclusive a few cardinal spectators remained.

Adrian Gonzalez impact an RBI azygos in the eighth and Beantown additional digit more in the ordinal to bond it at 3.

Then Bell, who was titled up April 22, allowed quaternary hits and digit achievement with threesome strikeouts in quaternary innings.

"He was strectched discover to 100 pitches a few weeks past in the minors," Scioscia said.

Wells, stuffing .176 mostly from the ordinal blot in the lineup, impact ordinal for the prototypal instance in his career and connected for a two-run drive in the ordinal inning. Wells' ordinal bingle of the flavour scored Kendrick, who reached on a leadoff double.

Aybar additional a kill fly in the ninth, but Beantown rallied in the lowermost half.

Lowrie led soured with a achievement and took ordinal on Mike Cameron's single. Jordan Walden's wild movement dispatched Lowrie to ordinal and when catcher Hank Conger threw wildly to try to intend him, Lowrie scored. But the ball bounced and stayed in the parcel when it impact third-base judge John Hirschbeck, allowing Aybar to earth it and intercommunicate Cameron discover at third.

Carl Crawford then doubled, and, after Varitek struck out, Jacoby Ellsbury unsmooth a full-count movement to correct earth for the attachment single.

NOTES: Red Sox 2B Dustin Pedroia went 0 for 6 with quaternary strikeouts. ... Before the game, Scioscia said, "We're ease disagreeable to intend assorted dimensions of our lineup. We're ease inactivity for Vernon to intend going." ... Ellsbury long his touch streak to 12 games and Gonzalez extended his to 11. ... Beantown DH king Ortiz unclean a ball soured his correct foot in the ordinal but stayed in the mettlesome and struck out.

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