Red Sox 6, Angels 1
BOSTON -- Wade Miley pitched eight dominant innings and Mike Napoli continued his torrid week with another home run and four RBIs to lead the Boston Red Sox to a 6-1 win over the Los Angeles Angels on Sunday.
Miley (4-4) had little trouble with the Angels in his first time facing them, retiring the first 14 batters he saw en route to his third straight win. The right-hander allowed just one run on four hits with two strikeouts and one walk.
Koji Uehara pitched a perfect ninth.
Napoli's two-run homer in the second was his eighth of the season and fourth in his last three games, and provided all the support Miley would need. He added a two-run double in the eighth and shortstop Xander Bogaerts collected four hits as Boston won for just the third time in its last seven games
Center fielder Mike Trout had an RBI double for the Angels, who lost for the third time in four games.
Miley cruised through 4 2/3 innings, getting Los Angeles to swing early in counts, before walking catcher Chris Iannetta and then allowing a single to designated hitter C.J. Cron.
At first, he appeared to hit Cron on the hands with a pitch, but Boston manager John Farrell challenged the play and the call was changed to a foul ball. Cron then smacked a solid single down the left-field line, the Angels' first of the afternoon.
Los Angeles finally got to Miley in the sixth when left fielder Erick Aybar singled and scored on Trout's double.
Boston's defense helped him in the seventh, with second baseman Dustin Pedroia and third baseman Brock Holt both making sensational diving plays, and the two infielders aided Miley again in the eighth with an inning-ending double play.
Napoli followed Bogaerts' single with fifth homer in his last six games, crushing an 0-1 changeup from Hector Santiago into the seats in straightaway center for a 2-0 lead.
Napoli had a rough start to the season, batting .162 with three homers and 11 RBIs over his first 33 games before Pedroia helped him rediscover with his swing. The two watched video and analyzed Napoli's approach on the flight home from Seattle on May 17, and he's been tearing the cover off the ball since.
The Red Sox made it 3-0 in the fifth when Holt doubled and scored on a sacrifice fly by Pedroia, Napoli's double off reliever Cam Bedrosian made it 5-1 and pinch-hitter Pablo Sandoval added an RBI single.
Santiago (3-3) gave up three runs on seven hits with no walks and six strikeouts in 6 2/3 innings. The left-hander threw a career-high 124 pitches.
NOTES: Boston placed RF Shane Victorino on the 15-day disabled list with a left calf strain and activated INF Jeff Bianchi from Triple-A Pawtucket. Victorino, sidelined for the second time this season and 11th time since 2007, left Saturday's game in the third inning after injuring his leg while catching a fly ball. ... Red Sox RHP Anthony Varvaro, designated for assignment earlier this season and claimed by the Chicago Cubs, returned to the team Sunday and was placed on the DL with a right flexor strain. ... The Angels recalled RHP Cam Bedrosian from Triple-A Salt Lake to take the spot of RHP Mike Morin, who was placed on the DL on Saturday after suffering a left oblique strain. ... The Red Sox on Monday open a three-game series at Minnesota, while the Angels host San Diego for three games.