G74: Athletics 4, Red Sox 3

Red Sox   - 021 000 000 - 3  6  1
Athletics - 300 000 01x - 4  6  1

Coco Crisp's two-out single in the eighth - after Andrew Miller had plunked both Kyle Blanks and Alberto Callaspo (?!?) - was the difference. Sean Doolittle then had little trouble with the Red Sox in the ninth, as Jackie Bradley fouled out, and Brock Holt and Xander Bogaerts both struck out swinging.

Back in the second, Bradley drove in two runs with a bases-loaded single to center. Boston tied the game in the third when Bogaerts walked, took second on a ground out and scored on David Ortiz's single.

Felix Doubront (4.1-2-3-4-4, 90) gave up a three-run homer to Josh Donaldson in the first.

Felix Doubront / Brad Mills

Holt, RF
Bogaerts, 3B
Pedroia, 2B
Ortiz, DH
Napoli, 1B
Pierzynski, C
Gomes, LF
Drew, SS
Bradley, CF

2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2.

That is the amount of runs scored by the Red Sox in their last six games.

Boston has not had a string of six games with two or fewer runs scored in nearly 36 years (July 25-30, 1978: 2, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1).

The team record is seven games:

April 14-21, 1914:           0 2 0 1 2 0 1 (to start the season)
July 6-12, 1920:             1 0 0 0 2 2 2
April 26-May 3, 1926:        2 1 2 0 2 2 2
August 10-16, 1932:          2 2 2 2 1 2 2
August 31-September 5, 1952: 0 1 0 0 2 2 0

The 2014 Red Sox will try to avoid being added to that list tonight when they face a guy the A's picked up this week for $1.00.