A's finally wear out Red Sox in 11 innings
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Sleep deprivation can make a person do a lot of things he wouldn't do ordinarily. After an all-night flight here from Boston, Red Sox manager Terry Francona, for example, kept trying to walk through the mirrors lining the corridors of the team's hotel, thinking it was the way to his room.
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Bronx, NY (Sports Network) - Gary Sheffield, Derek Jeter, Jorge Posada and Alex Rodriguez homered to back seven strong innings from Mike Mussina, as the New York Yankees roughed up Pedro Martinez on the way to an 11-1 victory over the Boston Red Sox to
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Another nine innings and another 3 1/2 hours of toe-to-toe, leather-wielding, nonstop action. This time it produced a 12-5 Red Sox victory over the hated Yankees.
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Dan Haren is making it so the Athletics hardly miss Barry Zito. Oakland beat up on its old ace again. Bobby Crosby homered off Zito, Mark Ellis also connected and Haren won his seventh straight decision, leading the A's past the San Francisco Giants 6-0 on Saturday.
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Four runs were already in. Mike Lowell was at the plate, awaiting the pitch from an ineffective Robinson Tejeda, who had just loaded the bases with two outs in the second inning by walking David Ortiz, hitting Manny Ram&#xED;rez, and walking J.D. Drew. With Josh Beckett -- a near certainty to be named to the American League All-Star team today ...
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The Oakland Athletics got a solid effort from ace Dan Haren and took a two-run lead into the bottom of the ninth inning. They still couldn't find a way to win.
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Oakland's Chad Guadin and Rich Harden combine to one-hit the reeling New York Yankees as the A's  come away with a 7-0 win.
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Eleven batters, 11 outs, two relievers and one memorable pickoff play. For the Boston Red Sox on Thursday night, it all added up to ... whatâs the word?  ââPapajima,ââ is the way winning pitcher Curt Schilling put it, blending the last names o...
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David Ortiz's two-run walk-off homer with two outs in the bottom of the 10th to beat the Angels, 8-6, and put the Red Sox in the A.L.C.S.
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OAKLAND, Calif. - The Oakland Athletics are used to pressure-packed pennant races...
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Mike Lowell drives in five runs to lead Boston's revived hitting and the Red Sox cut their magic number to clinch the AL East title to two by beating the A's.
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1911 &#151; Danny Murphy of Philadelphia had four hits as the Athletics beat the New York Giants 13-2 to win the World Series in six games. The A's put the game out of reach with a seven-run seventh inning.
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Garret Anderson hit a tiebreaking double in the eighth inning, Darin Erstad had a three-run homer, and the host Anaheim Angels beat Oakland, 5-3, yesterday to move back within two games of the AL West-leading A's. Jermaine Dye hit a two-run shot for the A's, who won the series opener Friday night.
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Frank Thomas hit his 476th home run, Nick Swisher connected three batters later and Esteban Loaiza completed a perfect August by winning his fourth straight decision to lead the Oakland Athletics past the beat-up Boston Red Sox 9-0 on Monday night.
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Brad Ausmus drove in his fourth run of the night with the game-winning single in the 11th inning, and the Houston Astros overcame another blown save by Brad Lidge to beat the Oakland Athletics 5-4 Tuesday night.
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And when you do all three as well as the Red Sox did on Tuesday afternoon, the result is a 9-3 win over the Angels in the first game of the American League Division Series.
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David Ortiz drove in half of Boston&#39;s runs Monday in an 8-3 win over the Oakland Athletics. Boston, which has won 18 of its last 20 games, remained 2 1/2 games behind the first