Reddick, 10-for-12 over the weekend in Baltimore, went 1-for-4, driving in a run with a ninth-inning single.
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“I’ve had some, a bad game, two bad games, but this is kind of three in a row now that’s not just been pretty pathetic, but they’ve been very bad”, he said.
“There’s got to be a lot of that involved”, Farrell said.
The A’s evened the score in the third with a two-run single from Khris Davis, but Chris Young’s RBI double in the bottom of the third gave the Red Sox the lead for good.
Sizzling Jackie Bradley Jr. hit two more home runs, and he drove in six runs for the second time in the series, and Dustin Pedroia also homered to power Boston to its third straight blowout of the A’s, a 13-3 rout that ran Oakland’s losing streak to five games.
Josh Reddick’s streak of getting a hit in eight straight at-bats ended in the top of the first inning but his ground out to first base played Coco Crisp with the first run of the game.
“Oh man. When I went out there – I’ve been here before, but I haven’t actually pitched here before”, said O’Sullivan, a 28-year-old veteran in his seventh major league season. “It’s foreign territory for him”.
A’s starters in the series allowed 19 earned runs on 22 hits in nine innings. He is 1-3 with a 9.61 ERA in his last four starts. David Ortiz hit two doubles and drove in a run in the inning. Bradley Jr. continues to excel especially after last night’s explosive three hit, six RBI output.
Bradley started the scoring for Boston in the second inning with a three-run homer over the bullpen in right field, and capped the scoring with another two-run shot to right in the eighth inning.
It followed a five-inning, four-run effort in a 7-4 home win over Houston on April 29 in which he gave up three runs in the sixth and was removed before recording an out. The A’s allowed 11 or more runs for the fourth straight game for the first time in franchise history.
Boston Red Sox’s Hanley Ramirez belts a two run double during the fifth inning of a baseball gam … Although the headline of that inning was Danny Valencia who began the frame with an lead-off single, but was removed from the game in the next half after re-aggravating his left-hamstring running down the first-base line. Oakland LF Mark Canha (back strain) and RHP Liam Hendriks (right triceps strain) were placed on the 15-day disabled list.
“He’s going through a tough time”, said A’s manager Bob Melvin. He didn’t start, but was inserted into the game.
Clay Buchholz is off to such a slow start this season that he thought the Boston Red Sox traded him during Monday’s outing.
“[Hitting coach] Chili [Davis] has had a tremendous impact”, manager John Farrell said recently.
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Gray’s poor night added to a rough stretch for the Athletics’ starters. Oakland starting pitchers have no quality starts over their last six contests, with a combined 7.31 ERA. The combination of Tommy Layne, Koji Uehara, and Matt Barnes limited the A’s to just two hits in the final 2.1 innings of the game. For Manaea, it will be his third since being recalled from Triple-A. Taking the spot start that’s been shakily held by Henry Owens, journeyman pitcher Sean O’Sullivan, who signed a minor league contract with the Sox in the off-season, got the start and the win, going five innings of scoreless ball before he ran into trouble in the sixth, giving up four runs, but by then the offense had already put the game away.
