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Angels rack up runs like few have at Fenway Park

C.J. Cron stood tall for the Angels on Saturday. Bob DeChiara/USA TODAY Sports

The Los Angeles Angels haven’t had much go right recently, but everything came together in their win over the Red Sox in Boston on Saturday.

The Angels’ 21 runs matched their total from the previous six games combined. It tied for their second most in a game in franchise history, trailing only a game from 1979, when they scored 24 against the Toronto Blue Jays.

Among the highlights:

The Angels tied a major-league record by having three players record at least five RBIs in a game. It happened six times previously, most recently by the New York Yankees against the Oakland Athletics in 2011.

C.J. Cron and Carlos Perez became the first pair of teammates with at least five hits and five RBIs in the same game since Gene Moore and Buck Jordan did it for the Boston Braves against the St. Louis Cardinals nearly 80 years ago -- on Aug. 25, 1936. The Angels only had two players record a five-hit game in the previous four seasons combined.

Cron and Perez also became the first pair of teammates in major-league history to combine for at least 11 hits and 11 RBIs in a game.

Cron joined Chone Figgins as the only player in Angels history to go 6-for-6 in a game. Cron, Figgins and Garret Anderson are the three Angels with a six-hit game.

Cron also became the first player with at least six hits and two home runs in a game since Carlos Pena did so for the Detroit Tigers against the Kansas City Royals in 2004. The past seven players to go 6-for-6 with multiple home runs in a game are Kirby Puckett (1987 Minnesota Twins), Andres Galarraga (1995 Colorado Rockies), Cal Ripken Jr. (1999 Baltimore Orioles), Edgardo Alfonzo (1999 New York Mets), Shawn Green (in a four-homer game for the 2002 Los Angeles Dodgers), Pena and Cron.

Albert Pujols was almost an afterthought in this game, but he also had five RBIs. His 21 five-RBI games are second-most among active players, trailing Alex Rodriguez’s 29.

And on the other side, a bad loss

Saturday's 19-run loss tied for the Red Sox's third worst in Fenway Park history. The only other visitor to ever beat them by more was the Yankees in 1923 (by 20 runs) and 2000 (by 21).

Did you know?

The Angels and Twins each scored at least 17 runs on Saturday.

Saturday marked the first time that two teams scored at least 17 runs on the same day since Aug. 12, 2008. That day, the Red Sox and Texas Rangers did it -- in the same game, which the Red Sox won 19-17.

The last time two teams pulled off the feat in different games was April 29, 2006, when the Tigers defeated the Twins 18-1 and the Yankees defeated the Blue Jays 17-6.