Angels sweat out Boston marathon

C.J. Wilson stinks. The offense is amazing! Mike Scioscia should be fired. Why is Jason Isringhausen on this team? Kevin Jepsen rocks. Vernon Wells is a bum. Oh, wait, Wells is clutch! Mike Trout, Torii Hunter and Mark Trumbo rule. Ernesto Frieri to the rescue. Oh no! Oh yes!

These were only some of the emotions endured by Angels fans who watched all four hours and 34 minutes of the Angels’ vertigo-inducing 14-13, 10-inning victory over the Boston Red Sox in Fenway Park on Thursday night.

Kendrys Morales led off the 10th with a home run, Erick Aybar singled, and Wells, who started a ninth-inning comeback with a solo homer, doubled to score Aybar for a 14-12 lead.

Frieri, who gave up a tying homer to Cody Ross leading off the bottom of the ninth, yielded a run on Dustin Pedroia’s run-scoring single in the 10th, but he struck out cleanup batter Adrian Gonzalez with a 97-mph fastball -- his 43rd pitch of the game -- to end the roller coaster ride and complete a three-game sweep.

“Wins like this can be huge,” Trumbo said after the Angels erased deficits of 6-0, 9-8 and 11-9. “Everyone was hanging on the dugout rail. We capitalized on almost every big opportunity we had offensively.

“The resiliency is what you feed off of, and wins like this can really sway that momentum. It’s hard to define what momentum is, but it’s a really good feeling that you get because of it.”

The Angels went seven for 15 with runners in scoring position and scored eight two-out runs. The Red Sox went nine for 14 with runners in scoring position and scored 11 two-out runs.

The teams combined for 38 hits, including 20 by the Angels, who were without Albert Pujols, five homers, five lead changes, 15 pitchers and four blown saves in the highest-scoring extra-inning game in Fenway Park’s 100 year-history.

“We showed a lot of grit and got the job done,” Hunter said. “We were fighting.”

The Red Sox pounded Wilson, who has gone 11 starts without a win, for six runs in the first two innings, Pedroia’s three-run homer highlighting a five-run second.

“Guys came back to the dugout and were saying, ‘Let’s start chipping away,’ ” Scioscia said.

The Angels didn’t bother with a chisel. They went right to the sledgehammer, scoring eight runs in the third for an 8-6 lead, the rally including two bases-loaded walks, a key error by third baseman Pedro Ciriaco’s, a tying, two-run single by Chris Iannetta and RBI singles by Trout and Hunter.

Boston scored once in the fifth to make it 8-7. With four innings to go and his top four relievers -- Frieri, Jepsen, Scott Downs and Jordan Walden -- available, Scioscia went to Jason Isringhausen, who was rocked for seven earned runs, 12 hits, two losses and a blown saves in his last eight games.

“I thought Izzy matched up well with those guys,” Scioscia said. “He got behind on some counts.”

Soon, the Angels were behind in the game. Mike Aviles homered against Isringhausen to make it 8-8, and doubles by Ciriaco and Jacoby Ellsbury against Downs gave Boston a 9-8 lead.

The Angels tied it, 9-9, on Trout’s two-out RBI single in the seventh. The Red Sox scored twice off Garrett Richards and Downs in the eighth for an 11-9 lead.

Wells, the much-maligned outfielder, hit a one-out homer off the top of the Green Monster to make it 11-10, and the Angels scored two more runs with two out.

Trout singled, took second on Ross’ error in right and scored on Hunter’s sharp single to left. Scott Podsednik’s throw beat Trout to the plate, but Trout slid in a split-second before catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia’s tag.

“He even slides fast,” Hunter said of Trout.

Howie Kendrick walked, and Trumbo lined an RBI single to center for a 12-11 lead. Ross’ homer off Frieri in the bottom of the ninth made it 12-12, but after a visit from pitching coach Mike Butcher in the 10th, Frieri struck out Gonzalez on three pitches -- the first two were 96 mph -- to end the game.

“I threw everything I had in my arm,” Frieri said. “Butch said, ‘Show me the man you have inside of you, and finish it off.’ I went with my best stuff.”

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Monster slugfest

Angels’ wild game at Boston:

*--* ANGELS BOSTON 20 Hits 18 2 2B 3 2 HR 3 9 2-out RBIs 11 7 Pitchers 8 *--*