BOSTON — Ceddanne Rafaela curled a house run across the Pesky Pole within the backside of the ninth inning on Wednesday, and the Boston Purple Sox rallied after trailing 4 totally different instances to beat the Los Angeles Angels 11-9.
The house run to proper area was simply 308 ft, making it the shortest walk-off homer within the Statcast period (since 2015) — 24 ft shorter than the subsequent closest.
It will have been a house run in just one main league ballpark — Fenway. And it was the second-shortest HR by any participant inside the Statcast period, the one shorter one being by the San Francisco Giants’ Stephen Vogt (307 ft on Sept. 18, 2019, at Fenway).
The Angels blew 4-0, 7-5, 8-7 and 9-8 leads, with Rafael Devers bouncing a chopper between the gloves of second baseman Chris Taylor and shortstop Zach Neto behind second base to tie it 9-9 within the eighth.
Every of the primary thrice the Purple Sox scored, Los Angeles answered with runs of its personal. However after strolling Mike Trout to guide off the ninth, Cooper Criswell (1-0) obtained the subsequent three batters out to present Boston an opportunity to stroll it off.
Within the backside half, Abraham Toro singled with one out and Rafaela hit the 308-foot liner over the quick wall that goes from the foul pole towards the bullpens in proper.
Rafaela grew to become the youngest Purple Sox participant (24 years, 259 days) with a walk-off HR during the last 25 years.
Taylor Ward had 4 RBIs for the Angels, who had been going for the three-game sweep.
Data from ESPN Analysis and The Related Press was used on this report.
