Patrick Sandoval gives up 10 hits as Red Sox fall to Angels, 6-1

Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald on Sep 8, 2026

Published in Baseball

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BOSTON — The crowd of 36,028 waiting for Tuesday night’s Red Sox-Angels game to get interesting had to first endure six innings of Reid Detmers one-hitting the home team.

Free of Detmers at last, the Red Sox threatened briefly in the seventh. But unable to follow through, they fell to the Angels, 6-1, in a series-evening loss.

It was a messy affair for left-hander Patrick Sandoval, facing his former team for the first time, and a silent two-thirds of a game for the Red Sox lineup.

While Detmers handled the Boston bats, Angels hitters took their ex-teammate’s lunch money inning after inning. Sandoval allowed the leadoff man to reach in each of the first six innings, including a leadoff base hit in each of the first five. Doing so led to at least one run scoring in the second, third (two) and fifth.

By the top of the sixth, Sandoval was the fifth Red Sox pitcher to allow double-digit hits in a game this year. But he finished the frame, becoming the fifth Red Sox starter to complete six innings in their last six games.

Sandoval yielded four earned runs on 10 hits, walked two and struck out seven, on 99 pitches (66 for strikes).

Detmers didn’t need to be efficient to be effective. He tossed his six scoreless innings on a new career-high 112 pitches (surpassing his previous mark by four), and allowed no more than one baserunner per frame. Wilyer Abreu’s first-inning single was their only hit, and Detmers retired his last 10 batters after a hit-by-pitch of Jahmai Jones with two outs in the third.

The Red Sox finally had a chance when the Angels went to righty Jose Fermin, in the bottom of the seventh. Trevor Story woke up the crowd with a leadoff double, and scored Boston’s first run when Nick Sogard followed with an RBI single.

But that was all the Red Sox wrote in the seventh. After a walk to Caleb Durbin, Fermin retired the bottom third of Boston’s order, Andruw Monasterio, Eli White and Connor Wong, to escape further damage.

The Red Sox faced rookie right-hander Ryan Watson, who began the season in Boston and was claimed off waivers by the Angels on Aug. 7, in the bottom of the eighth. He entered with two outs and Wilyer Abreu on base via walk from lefty Tayler Saucedo, and struck out Story to end the milquetoast rally bid.

Facing Raymond Burgos in the top of the ninth, the Angels ensured their lead would hold when the inning turned over. Burgos yielded a two-out double to No. 9 hitter Travis d’Arnaud, and Zach Neto’s fourth hit of the night, a two-run Green Monster homer. Mike Trout followed with a double of his own before Burgos ended the frame with a strikeout of Jose Siri.

Sogard, who entered the game batting .289 with a .898 OPS in his last 20 games, led off the bottom of the ninth with a single off lefty Samy Natera Jr. It brought Sogard’s hit total to two, and Boston’s to four.

But like the seventh inning, Sogard was left on base with nowhere to go, as Natera retired Durbin, Monasterio and White to end the game.

The Red Sox are 80-66, the Angels 55-90. The series concludes Wednesday at 6:45 p.m. ET.