Boston Red Sox at Oakland Athletics

· Major League Baseball

Boston Red Sox

4-2, 4-2 Away

Final
5 - 4

Oakland Athletics

1-5, 1-5 Home

Trevor Story helps the Red Sox beat the Athletics 5-4 in 11 innings

Abreu began the 11th on second as the automatic runner. He advanced on Reese McGuire’s single and scampered home on Tyler O’Neill’s 5-4-3 double play against Mitch Spence (0-1).

Ceddanne Rafaela made a great running catch in center with one out in the bottom half, robbing Shea Langeliers of extra bases. Josh Winckowski (1-0) then fanned Lawrence Butler for the final out.

“That’s what we do now, we play a lot better defense, and we pitch a lot better,” Red Sox manager Alex Cora said.

“If it’s inside the ballpark we’re gonna catch it, and that was a great play.”

Winckowski struck out three in two innings. Five Red Sox relievers allowed two hits in six scoreless innings.

“That was unbelievable,” Winckowski said of Rafaela’s catch.

“I knew the hitter got a good chunk of it, but I was watching it turn and keep going to right-center, even farther and farther away from Rafaela, and the fact that he caught it was unbelievable.”

Langeliers and JJ Bleday homered for Oakland.

The A’s played errorless ball after committing 13 miscues through their first five games.

“This one kind of hurts but you know what, these guys bounced back from last night and put that game behind them,” A’s manager Mark Kotsay said.

“Obviously, all around, a much better performance tonight.”

Story hit an RBI double in the first to help the Red Sox jump out to a 2-0 lead. But Langeliers connected for a two-run homer against Brayan Bello in the second.

Bleday’s two-run shot in the third lifted the A’s to a 4-3 lead. But the Red Sox tied it in the seventh on Story’s run-scoring single.

Bello allowed five hits in five innings. He struck out six and walked one.

A’s starter Alex Wood struck out seven in five innings. He was charged with three runs and six hits.

Boston RHP Nick Pivetta (0-1, 1.50 ERA) and Oakland RHP Ross Stripling (0-1, 7.20 ERA) pitch on Wednesday.

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Matchup Prediction

Athletics: 44.7%

Red Sox: 55.3%

*According to ESPN's Basketball Power Index

Scoring Summary

	11th Inning	Butler struck out swinging.
	11th Inning	Langeliers flied out to center.
	11th Inning	Rooker struck out looking.
	11th Inning	Devers grounded out to shortstop.
	11th Inning	O'Neill grounded into double play, third to second to first, Abreu scored, McGuire out at second.
	11th Inning	McGuire singled to left, Abreu to third.

Statistics

BOS		OAK
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
2	Hit By Pitch	0
12	Ground Balls	14
15	Strikeouts	14
4	Runs Batted In	4
0	Sacrifice Hit	1
12	Hits	7
1	Stolen Bases	0
4	Walks	4
0	Catcher Interference	0
5	Runs	4
2	Ground Into Double Play	1
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
42	At Bats	39
0	Home Runs	2
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
27	Runners Left On Base	22
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	0
1	Intentional Walks	1
3	Doubles	3
15	Fly Balls	12
0	Caught Stealing	0
178	Pitches	164
0	Games Started	0
2	Pinch At Bats	0
1	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	0
15	Total Bases	16
48	Plate Appearances	44
0.0	Projected Home Runs	324.0
3	Extra Base Hits	5
5.6	Runs Created	3.9
.286	Batting Average	.179
.500	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.357	Slugging Percentage	.410
.190	Secondary Average	.333
.375	On Base Percentage	.256
.732	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.666
0.8	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	1.2
4.7	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	3.1
37.0	Batter Rating	35.0
0.0	At Bats Per Home Run	19.5
1.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
3.71	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.73
.071	Isolated Power	.231
0.27	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.29
.083	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.091
-.095	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.154
9.0	Runs Produced	8.0
0.8	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.4	Patience Ratio	0.5
0.4	Balls In Play Average	0.2
85.5	MLB Rating	79.8
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0