Oakland, CA (Sports Network) - Brandon Moss hit a three-run home run to lead
the Oakland Athletics past the Boston Red Sox, 6-1, in the opener of a three-
game series.
Josh Reddick also homered and knocked in two runs for Oakland, which won its
second straight game.
Jarrod Parker (5-3) allowed one run on six hits and three walks over 6 2/3
innings for the win. He has now allowed one run or fewer in seven of his last
eight starts.
Daisuke Matsuzaka (0-3) was touched for five runs on four hits and two walks
over just one-plus innings. It was the shortest outing of his career, throwing
a mere 28 pitches.
Boston quickly took the lead when Daniel Nava led off the game with a double
and came home on Dustin Pedroia's base hit to right.
But Reddick answered with a shot into the right-field bleachers in the bottom
of the frame to make it a 1-1 game.
Oakland then went on top in the second with Moss' three-run blast over the
wall in right field. Seth Smith doubled and Derek Norris walked prior to Moss'
ninth home run of the season.
Brandon Inge followed with a base hit before Cliff Pennington was issued a
walk, resulting in Matsuzaka being pulled in favor of Clayton Mortenson, who
immediately walked Coco Crisp to load the bases.
Mortenson, though, limited the damage to just a Reddick sacrifice fly to
center field to keep the score 5-1.
After the Red Sox stranded a runner on third in the fourth inning, the A's
added to their lead in the sixth when Norris singled, stole second, advanced
to third on Moss' base hit and came home on an Inge sacrifice fly to center
field.
Parker was replaced by Sean Doolittle with two outs and runners on first and
second in the seventh inning, and the reliever needed just three pitches to
fan Nava and end the threat.
Doolittle stayed in the game and retired the next six batters to seal the win
for Oakland.
Game Notes
The Athletics have now hit at least one home run in 13 straight games. It is
their longest such streak since April 27-May 12, 2004, when they did it in 14
straight games...Matsuzaka fell to 4-2 in eight starts against the
A's...Oakland did not commit an error for the first time in six games...A's
designated hitter Yoenis Cespedes went 0-for-4 to snap his career-high six-
game hit streak...Red Sox first baseman Adrian Gonzalez went 1-for-4 to extend
his hit streak to 13 games.
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