Ceddanne Rafaela curled a home run around the Pesky Pole in the bottom of the ninth inning Wednesday, and the Boston Red Sox rallied after trailing four different times to beat the Los Angeles Angels 11-9.

The home run to right field was just 308 feet, making it the shortest walk-off homer since Statcast tracking began in 2015 -- 24 feet shorter than the next closest.

It would have been a home run in only one major league ballpark -- Fenway. And it was the second-shortest HR by any player within the Statcast era, the only shorter one being by the San Francisco Giants ' Stephen Vogt (307 feet on Sept. 18, 2019, at Fenway).

"I was like, 'If it's fair, it's gone.' So I was hoping it stayed fair," Rafaela told reporters. "I was really happy because we grinded today. To win this gam

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