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Tyler O’Neill, Triston Casas, and Reese McGuire teed off in the second inning on Friday night.
To say the Red Sox came out swinging in the second inning versus the Angels on Friday night would be an understatement.
Coming off a series sweep of the Oakland Athletics in their first contest of a three-game series in Los Angeles, Boston hitters fired off not one, not two, but three home runs off of Griffin Canning in the top of the second frame.
Right fielder Tyler O’Neill began the wild sequence with a 410-foot solo homer to right-center field. The four-bagger was good for his third homer of the season in just eight games.
In the following at-bat, first baseman Triston Casas launched a 397-foot home run to left-center to make it back-to-back long balls for Boston. The homer, which was hit loudly off of Casas’s bat at 104 miles per hour, was his first of the season.
The last time the Red Sox hit back-to-back dingers was on Aug. 27, 2023 (Justin Turner and Adam Duvall vs. Los Angeles Dodgers).
Evidently, Boston wasn’t finished mashing homers. Catcher Reese McGuire hit one of his own two at-bats later, a 392-foot two-run home run to right field. McGuire’s long ball gave the Red Sox a 4-0 lead with one out.
In fact, McGuire’s inning-capping long ball, his first of the year, matched his 2023 home run total.
The Red Sox hope to secure their sixth win on the young season by maintaining their three-home-run-driven lead.
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