The A's (75-57, 41-27 home) easily dismissed the Red Sox (62-72, 30-34 away) 7-1 tonight at O.co Coliseum. Boston has now lost five in a row, all in California while Oakland has won eight straight games.
Rookie A.J. Griffin (4-0) was excellent, he went seven innings and allowed one earned run on three hits with five strikeouts and no walks. Pat Neshek wrapped it up with two scoreless frames as Boston managed only four total hits.
Felix Doubront's (10-7) promising season like everything associated with this team has quickly grown sour and for his sake, I hope the Red Sox shut him down before he does more damage to his confidence. He is a key piece in the future. He was gone after three innings, he was knocked around for five earned runs on six hits with six strikeouts and two walks.
He didn't go deep along with the three other former Red Sox (Brandon Moss, Josh Reddick, George Kottaras) last night so Coco Crisp blasted a solo homer (10th of the season) to lead off the home half of the first inning this evening. Yoenis Cespedes (2 runs, 2 stolen bases) and Derek Norris had RBI singles in the third sandwiched around a two-run double from Brandon Inge (who later hurt his shoulder; he's probably done for the season).
Norris added another RBI single in the fifth before Dustin Pedroia's RBI single cut it to 6-1 in the sixth. Chris Carter's solo homer (his 13th of the season) in the seventh made it 7-1.
The A's go for the sweep tomorrow afternoon (4:05 p.m., NESN) as Daisuke Matsuzaka (1-3) takes on Brett Anderson (2-0). I've already started to tune out since today was the first college football Saturday of 2012 and t-minus one week until NFL Week 1 next Sunday.
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