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FENWAY PARK |
BOSTON STRONG -
THE ROAD TO REDEMPTION
The A's clobber the Red Sox in a
rain shortened game
April 23, 2013 ...
Under raw, dreary and wet conditions, perhaps it was only fitting that this would be the night the Red Sox would produce what was easily their ugliest performance of the young season. Unable to pitch or field with any kind of cohesion while the game was still
in question, Boston suffered a 13-0 loss to the Oakland Athletics on a forgettable evening at Fenway Park.
It all fell part in the top of the third, when Alfredo Aceves had a nightmarish six-run inning in which every possible thing that could go wrong did. This wasn't a case of Aceves giving up hit after hit and not being able to adjust. Instead, it was an
unsightly combination of walks (three), balks (two) and defensive miscues (two of which were officially counted as errors).
Offensively, Boston was stifled by Bartolo Colon, who allowed three hits while walking one and striking out seven.
Rain fell throughout the game and the tarp came on the field prior to the top of the eighth and play was never resumed.
Aceves threw 42 pitches in the inning. Remarkably, the A's got those six runs without the benefit of an extra-base hit. In fact, they only had three hits in the frame. If Aceves had been able to settle down, maybe it could have turned into a competitive game at
some point. But the A's jumped right back on him in the fourth.
Knuckleballer Steven Wright, making his Major League debut, finished out the fourth. But Oakland jumped on him for four in the fifth and one in the sixth to make it 13-0. After the game, Wright was optioned to Triple-A Pawtucket. |
