BOSTON—Hunter Renfroe hit a three-run, first-inning homer and Los Angeles held off the Boston Red Sox 5–4 on Monday, April 17, in the annual Patriots’ Day game that had Angels’ two-way star Shohei Ohtani’s pitching start shortened by a long rain delay.
Renfroe drove in four runs, helping the Angels avoid a four-game series sweep.
Ohtani gave up a run in two hitless innings, walking the leadoff hitter and throwing two wild pitches before Rob Refsnyder’s run-scoring ground out.
He’s given up only two runs in 21 innings over four starts this season.
“I felt like I could go back out there but we just didn’t know exactly how long the delay was going to be,” he said through a translator. “It was a really early game, that was probably the hardest part.”…