At the beginning of this three-game series, the Boston Red Sox lined up on opposite foul lines with the Los Angeles Angels in solidarity as the grieving home team observed a moment of silence in honor of rookie pitcher Nick Adenhart. 

Bobby Abreu hit a go-ahead two-run single and Vladimir Guerrero hit his first home run of the season, leading the Los Angeles Angels to a testy 5-4 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Sunday. 

The Boston Red Sox finally snapped their nine-game regular-season slide to Los Angeles. 

Jason Bay homered twice and drove in three runs, Brad Penny won his American League debut and the Boston Red Sox beat the Los Angeles Angels 5-4 on Saturday. 

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Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon and the Angels' Howie Kendrick were locked in a classic pitcher-batter duel. 

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Angels 6, REDSOX 3 

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In remarks before theMilwaukeeBrewers' home opener Friday against the Chicago Cubs, general manager Doug Melvin defended veteran right-hander Jeff Suppan, who was tagged for six runs in four innings on opening day in San Francisco and has been the target  

Joe Morgan, the pithy former RedSox manager as opposed to the verbose current broadcaster, was fond of saying, "The worm has turned" when things began going opposite to where they usually went. 

The Red Sox suffered few injuries this spring and appear to be in good shape to approach -- or surpass -- the 95 victories they achieved last season. 

--RHP Tim Wakefield started Friday night for the Sox, and it represented the 15th consecutive season that the venerable knuckleballer has appeared in a game for the Boston franchise. 

Nobody said that life without Manny Ramirez would be easy for the Boston Red Sox, and they're finding that out the hard way this season. 

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