ANAHEIM, Calif. | Boston&#8217;s latest postseason win over the Los Angeles Angels moved the team with baseball&#8217;s best record to the verge of elimination.</p><p>J.D. Drew stunned Angels closer Francisco Rodriguez with a two-run homer in the ninth inning, giving the Red Sox a 7-5 victory Friday night and a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five, first-round American League playoff series</p><p>Boston, the defending World Series champion, won its 11th consecutive postseason game against Los Angeles, setting the record for most postseason wins in a row over one opponent. The Red Sox won their ninth consecutive postseason game.</p><p>Jason Bay got the Red Sox off to a good start with a three-run homer in the first inning. Boston was ahead 4-0 after just 22 pitches by Angels starter Ervin Santana &#8212; who had not faced the Red Sox during the regular season.</p><p>David Ortiz singled with two out in the first, extending his division-series hitting streak to 13 games. Kevin Youkilis followed with a single and Drew hit an RBI double.</p><p>Bay, obtained from Pittsburgh in the three-team deal that sent Manny Ramirez from Boston to the Los Angeles Dodgers, then drove a 2-2 pitch to center field for his second homer of the series.</p><p>Bay also hit a two-run shot against John Lackey in Boston&#8217;s 4-1 victory in the opener Wednesday night.</p><p>Boston starter Daisuke Matsuzaka threw 108 pitches in five innings, allowing three runs and eight hits. On six occasions during the regular season, Matsuzaka finished with 100 or more pitches while working five innings or fewer. He was 4-0 with a 3.60 ERA in those games.</p><p>Matsuzaka reached the century mark in the fifth before recording an out. He walked Mark Teixeira and Vladimir Guerrero before giving up Torii Hunter&#8217;s second RBI single of the game, cutting Boston&#8217;s lead to 5-3. But Dice-K retired the next three batters, including pinch hitter Kendry Morales on a pop-up for the third out.</p><p>Matsuzaka gave up three consecutive singles with two out in the first, including Hunter&#8217;s run-scoring hit up the middle. But shortstop Alex Cora &#8212; starting in pace of rookie Jed Lowrie because manager Terry Francona preferred the matchup of Cora against Santana &#8212; made a nice play deep in the hole on a grounder by Juan Rivera and threw him out to end the inning.</p><p>Teixeira and Guerrero singled with two out in the third, but Matsuzaka escaped the jam with the help of a questionable call by first-base umpire Kerwin Danley. Cora charged Hunter&#8217;s grounder and threw him out in a close play. Hunter, first-base coach Alfredo Griffin and manager Mike Scioscia argued to no avail.</p><p>Boston added another run in the fourth on an RBI double by Jacoby Ellsbury, who was three for five in the Red Sox&#8217;s game-one win.</p><p>The Angels closed to 5-2 in the bottom half of the inning on an RBI single by Chone Figgins, but Matsuzaka minimized the damage by striking out Garret Anderson with runners at the corners.