The Boston Red Sox narrowly defeated the Oakland Athletics yesterday at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum with the Red Sox coming out on top 5 to 3. It was a solid match that aficionados with Red Socks tickets won’t soon forget. Not much compares to America’s Pastime so stock up on cheap baseball tickets and see all the fun live.
Red Sox pitcher Josh Beckett (5.83 ERA) got the win, while Dallas Braden (3.56 ERA) took the loss for the Athletics. Josh Beckett went 6 innings for the Red Sox, allowed 5 hits, no home runs and 3 earned runs with 5 walks and 7 strikeouts. Also pitching for the Red Sox was Scott Atchison (3.62). The Athletics’s starter Dallas Braden went 5.2 innings, allowed 6 hits, no home runs and 4 earned runs with 4 walks and 2 strikeouts. Henry Rodriguez (3.74), Michael Wuertz (4.54), Jerry Blevins (3.80), and Brad Ziegler (3.04) also pitched for the Athletics. With the win, Beckett’s record goes to 5-4, while Braden is at 9-12. Jonathan Papelbon earned the save for the Red Sox, bringing his saves up to 36.
In addition to the 5 runs, the Red Sox scored 9 hits and committed no errors. J.D. Drew led the Red Sox in hitting with 3 hits, followed by David Ortiz’s 2 hits, and Adrian Beltre with 2. The Athletics didn’t have anyone with a big night with not one batter getting more than 2 hits. Jeremy Hermida could not get much going at the plate as he left 6 runners on base. The Athletics scored 3 runs, 5 hits and one error.
Umpiring duties were performed by Hunter Wendelstedt, Brian Runge, Jerry Layne and Mike Winters. There were 19,806 Athletics ticket holders in attendance at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum.