ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Christian Moore hit a tying homer in the eighth inning and a two-run walk-off shot in the 10th, sending the Los Angeles Angels to a 3-2 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Tuesday night.
Moore, the Angels’ top prospect and the eighth overall pick in the 2024 draft, hit a solo shot off Greg Weissert in the eighth.
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Los Angeles Angels' Jo Adell breaks his bat on a single in the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox, Tuesday, June 24, 2025, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Jayne Kamin-Oncea)
Los Angeles Angels first baseman LaMonte Wade Jr. makes a throw to home off a sacrifice fly by Boston Red Sox's Nate Eaton in the third inning of a baseball game Tuesday, June 24, 2025, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Jayne Kamin-Oncea)
Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Garrett Crochet delivers during the first inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels, Tuesday, June 24, 2025, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Jayne Kamin-Oncea)
Boston Red Sox's Marcelo Mayer, right, scores past Los Angeles Angels catcher Logan O'Hoppe on a sacrifice fly by Red Sox's Nate Eaton in the third inning of a baseball game Tuesday, June 24, 2025, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Jayne Kamin-Oncea)
After Marcelo Mayer's leadoff RBI single off Reid Detmers (3-2) put Boston ahead in the 10th, Moore capped his 11th major league game by driving a slider from Justin Wilson (2-1) to right field.
Garrett Crochet struck out 10 over seven scoreless innings of three-hit ball for the Red Sox, who have lost four straight. Mayer had three of Boston's five hits.
Angels shortstop Zach Neto left with an apparent injury in the ninth inning after making an error on Romy Gonzalez’s leadoff grounder, but Kenley Jansen escaped the jam.
Crochet leads the majors in strikeouts and the Angels lead the AL in striking out, leading to predictable results for Boston’s left-hander. He issued three walks during his fourth double-digit strikeout performance of the season, but he didn't allow a run for the first time in 12 appearances since April 19.
Mayer tripled in the third and scored Boston's first run on Nate Eaton's fly to right.
Tyler Anderson yielded two hits while pitching into the fifth inning, and his bullpen kept the Angels close.
Moore turned the game on a dime with his 10th-inning drive, which barely cleared the line in right for his third career homer.
Boston reached the halfway point of its regular season at 40-41. The Red Sox have a losing record after 81 games for only the fourth time in the last 27 full seasons.
Yusei Kikuchi (2-6, 3.01 ERA) takes the mound Wednesday when the Angels go for the series sweep. Richard Fitts (0-3, 4.71 ERA) is the likely starter for Boston.
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Los Angeles Angels' Jo Adell breaks his bat on a single in the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox, Tuesday, June 24, 2025, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Jayne Kamin-Oncea)
Los Angeles Angels first baseman LaMonte Wade Jr. makes a throw to home off a sacrifice fly by Boston Red Sox's Nate Eaton in the third inning of a baseball game Tuesday, June 24, 2025, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Jayne Kamin-Oncea)
Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Garrett Crochet delivers during the first inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels, Tuesday, June 24, 2025, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Jayne Kamin-Oncea)
Boston Red Sox's Marcelo Mayer, right, scores past Los Angeles Angels catcher Logan O'Hoppe on a sacrifice fly by Red Sox's Nate Eaton in the third inning of a baseball game Tuesday, June 24, 2025, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Jayne Kamin-Oncea)
ALEPPO, Syria (AP) — First responders on Sunday entered a contested neighborhood in Syria’ s northern city of Aleppo after days of deadly clashes between government forces and Kurdish-led forces. Syrian state media said the military was deployed in large numbers.
The clashes broke out Tuesday in the predominantly Kurdish neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud, Achrafieh and Bani Zaid after the government and the Syrian Democratic Forces, the main Kurdish-led force in the country, failed to make progress on how to merge the SDF into the national army. Security forces captured Achrafieh and Bani Zaid.
The fighting between the two sides was the most intense since the fall of then-President Bashar Assad to insurgents in December 2024. At least 23 people were killed in five days of clashes and more than 140,000 were displaced amid shelling and drone strikes.
The U.S.-backed SDF, which have played a key role in combating the Islamic State group in large swaths of eastern Syria, are the largest force yet to be absorbed into Syria's national army. Some of the factions that make up the army, however, were previously Turkish-backed insurgent groups that have a long history of clashing with Kurdish forces.
The Kurdish fighters have now evacuated from the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood to northeastern Syria, which is under the control of the SDF. However, they said in a statement they will continue to fight now that the wounded and civilians have been evacuated, in what they called a “partial ceasefire.”
The neighborhood appeared calm Sunday. The United Nations said it was trying to dispatch more convoys to the neighborhoods with food, fuel, blankets and other urgent supplies.
Government security forces brought journalists to tour the devastated area, showing them the damaged Khalid al-Fajer Hospital and a military position belonging to the SDF’s security forces that government forces had targeted.
The SDF statement accused the government of targeting the hospital “dozens of times” before patients were evacuated. Damascus accused the Kurdish-led group of using the hospital and other civilian facilities as military positions.
On one street, Syrian Red Crescent first responders spoke to a resident surrounded by charred cars and badly damaged residential buildings.
Some residents told The Associated Press that SDF forces did not allow their cars through checkpoints to leave.
“We lived a night of horror. I still cannot believe that I am right here standing on my own two feet,” said Ahmad Shaikho. “So far the situation has been calm. There hasn’t been any gunfire.”
Syrian Civil Defense first responders have been disarming improvised mines that they say were left by the Kurdish forces as booby traps.
Residents who fled are not being allowed back into the neighborhood until all the mines are cleared. Some were reminded of the displacement during Syria’s long civil war.
“I want to go back to my home, I beg you,” said Hoda Alnasiri.
Associated Press journalist Kareem Chehayeb in Beirut contributed to this report.
Sandbag barriers used as fighting positions by Kurdish fighters, left inside a destroyed mosque in the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, where clashes between government forces and Kurdish fighters have been taking place in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
Burned vehicles at one of the Kurdish fighters positions at the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, where clashes between government forces and Kurdish fighters have been taking place in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
People flee the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, where clashes between government forces and Kurdish fighters have been taking place in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
A Syrian military police convoy enters the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, where clashes between government forces and Kurdish fighters have been taking place in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
Burned vehicles and ammunitions left at one of the Kurdish fighters positions at the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, where clashes between government forces and Kurdish fighters have been taking place in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
