Angels vs. Red Sox

How the Angels fared against the Red Sox this season. Boston won the season series, 6-4.

April 13 at Fenway Park:

Red Sox 10, Angels 1

In an early-season offensive funk, the Angels manage five hits in seven innings against knuckleball-throwing Tim Wakefield, and the Red Sox pull away with a six-run eighth against relievers Darren Oliver and Greg Jones. Trailing, 4-1, in the eighth, Vladimir Guerrero strikes out against closer Jonathan Papelbon with one out, and Garret Anderson lines out to left. John Lackey has a decent outing, giving up three runs and nine hits, striking out six and walking one in 5 2/3 innings.

April 14 at Fenway Park:

Red Sox 8, Angels 0

Boston right-hander Curt Schilling takes full advantage of the Angels’ sluggish bats, giving up four hits, striking out four and walking one in eight innings, and an error by Angels center fielder Gary Matthews Jr. contributes to a two-run third. The Angels look a lot like they did in 2006, hitting five first-pitch outs. Six other outs come on second-pitch swings. They have gone seven games without a homer, a span in which they are batting .164 (12 for 73) with runners in scoring position.

April 16 at Fenway Park:

Red Sox 7, Angels 2

After an April 15 rainout, the Angels have an early wake-up call for a noon Patriots Day start. They should have slept in. Red Sox ace Josh Beckett drills Guerrero in the wrist with a 95-mph fastball in the first inning, knocking the slugger out for two games, and Ervin Santana is bombed for six runs and six hits, including Manny Ramirez’s two-run single, in the first. The only bright spot: Orlando Cabrera ends the home-run drought with a first-inning shot.

Aug. 6 at Angel Stadium:

Angels 4, Red Sox 2

The score is tied, 2-2, after Kevin Youkilis’ two-run homer in the third and Casey Kotchman’s two-run single in the fourth. Then Angels infielder Maicer Izturis rips Schilling’s hanging split-fingered fastball into the right-field seats for a solo home run in the seventh, Chone Figgins adds a sacrifice fly, and Justin Speier, Scot Shields and Francisco Rodriguez combine for three scoreless innings in relief of Jered Weaver.

Aug. 7 at Angel Stadium:

Angels 10, Red Sox 4

Matthews knocks in four runs with his bat and takes one run away with his glove, gliding to the center-field wall in the fourth inning and perfectly timing his jump to catch Coco Crisp’s drive about a foot above the fence. Matthews then keys a five-run fifth with a two-run single, hits a run-scoring double in the sixth and caps his night with a solo home run in the eighth. The Angels go seven for 22 with runners in scoring position to back Joe Saunders.

Aug. 8 at Angel Stadium:

Red Sox 9, Angels 6

A four-hour-two-minute marathon, which matches the longest time for a nine-inning home game in Angels history, boils down to a battle of the bullpens. The Red Sox win handily. Dustin Pedroia breaks a seventh-inning tie with a home run off Speier, and the Red Sox add two runs in the eighth off Shields. Hideki Okajima, Eric Gagne and Papelbon combine for 3 1/3 innings of scoreless relief for Boston.

Aug. 17 at Fenway Park:

Red Sox 8, Angels 4

Lackey gives up six runs in a 46-pitch first inning, and when he returns to the dugout, he rips off his glove and hurls it against the wall. Lackey falls to 1-4 with a 7.56 ERA in seven career starts at Fenway, and at one point a television camera catches him cursing the park. Kotchman goes four for four.

Aug. 17, at Fenway Park:

Angels 7, Red Sox 5

Hard to tell what is more shocking -- Santana, called up from triple-A Salt Lake to start the nightcap of a doubleheader, giving up one run in 6 1/3 innings on the road to out-duel Beckett, or the Angels, after blowing a 4-1 lead by giving up four eighth-inning runs, rallying for three runs in the ninth for a dramatic win. Guerrero doubles home the winning runs off Gagne in the ninth.

Aug. 18 at Fenway Park:

Red Sox 10, Angels 5

David Ortiz draws the ire of Weaver in this one. After crushing a grand slam to cap a six-run fifth inning, the Boston slugger flips his bat, watches the ball and waits to take a few short steps before even starting his trot. Weaver glares at Ortiz around the bases, and says, “I’ll remember it the next time we play them, that’s for sure.”

Aug. 19 at Fenway Park:

Angels 3, Red Sox 1

More bad blood, this time between Cabrera and pitcher Julian Tavarez, who hits the Angels shortstop with a pitch in the third. Cabrera gestures toward the mound, benches clear, but no punches are thrown. Cabrera believes Tavarez threw at him intentionally to retaliate for Cabrera supposedly stealing signs in a previous series. The incident does not overshadow Saunders’ 7 2/3 -inning, one-run, six-hit effort.

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Schedule

Best-of-five series; All times Pacific;

* -- If necessary; All game on TBS:

Game 1 -- Wednesday, Angels (Lackey, 19-9)

at Boston (Beckett, 20-7), 3:30 p.m.

Game 2 -- Friday, Angels (Escobar, 18-7)

at Boston (Matsuzaka, 15-12), 5:30 p.m.

Game 3 -- Sunday, Boston (Schilling, 9-8)

at Angels (Weaver, 13-7), noon

Game 4 -- Monday, Boston (Beckett, 20-7)

at Angels (Lackey, 19-9), 6:30 p.m.*

Game 5 -- Oct. 10, Angels (Escobar, 18-7)

at Boston (Matsuzaka, 15-12), 5:30 p.m.*