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Boston Red Sox 3 – 4 Athletics

MLB · July 29, 2026 · Final
🎧 Post-Game Report (audio)

Post-Game Recap

The Oakland Athletics held off the Boston Red Sox tonight, four to three, in a game that swung hard in both directions before Oakland finally slammed the door.

It was the Athletics who drew first blood, Bolte crossing the plate in the second inning on a single by White to make it one-nothing Oakland. Then in the seventh, Serven went deep to center, four hundred and nineteen feet, a two-run shot that pushed the lead to three-nothing and looked like it might just put this one away early.

Boston punched back in the eighth. Abreu singled to right, Yoshida scored, and suddenly it was three-one. But Oakland answered right back in the same inning, Butler doubling to center to score White and restore that three-run cushion at four-one. That felt like the knockout blow.

Except the Red Sox had other ideas. Wong stepped in the ninth and launched a two-run homer to left, three hundred and ninety-four feet, pulling Boston within one at four-three and turning Fenway electric. But that was as close as they'd get. Oakland's bullpen shut the door and held on.

Serven's home run was the defining swing of the night, and Wong's ninth-inning blast made it dramatic, but Boston simply ran out of outs when it mattered most. That's your post-game report. Sports Desk, signing off.

AI-generated post-game report composed from the official play-by-play and box score.

Who Scored — Scoring Timeline

  1. Bolte singled to center, White scored. P2 · 0–1
  2. Serven homered to center (419 feet), Bolte scored. P7 · 0–3
  3. Abreu singled to right, Yoshida scored, Contreras to third. P8 · 1–3
  4. Butler doubled to center, White scored. P8 · 1–4
  5. Wong homered to left (394 feet), Duran scored. P9 · 3–4

Complete Play-by-Play

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Top of the 1st inning P1
Gage Jump pitches to Jahmai Jones P1
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P1
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P1
Pitch 3 : Ball 3 P1
Pitch 4 : Strike 1 Looking P1
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Swinging P1
Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P1
Jones doubled to left. P1
P1
Gage Jump pitches to Romy Gonzalez P1
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P1
González popped out to first. P1
P1
Gage Jump pitches to Willson Contreras P1
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P1
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P1
Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Looking P1
Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P1
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Swinging P1
Pitch 6 : Ball 4 P1
Contreras walked. P1
P1
Gage Jump pitches to Wilyer Abreu P1
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P1
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P1
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P1
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P1
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P1
Abreu grounded into double play, second to shortstop to first, Contreras out at second. P1
P1
Middle of the 1st inning P1
Bottom of the 1st inning P1
Jake Bennett pitches to Jacob Wilson P1
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P1
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P1
Wilson grounded out to third. P1
P1
Jake Bennett pitches to Nick Kurtz P1
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P1
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P1
Kurtz flied out to right. P1
P1
Jake Bennett pitches to Jonah Heim P1
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P1
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P1
Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Swinging P1
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P1
Heim grounded out to shortstop. P1
P1
End of the 1st inning P1
Top of the 2nd inning P2
Gage Jump pitches to Ceddanne Rafaela P2
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P2
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P2
Rafaela struck out swinging. P2
P2
Gage Jump pitches to Caleb Durbin P2
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P2
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P2
Durbin singled to right. P2
P2
Gage Jump pitches to Jarren Duran P2
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2
Durbin stole second. P2
Durbin stole second. P2
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P2
Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Looking P2
Duran struck out looking. P2
P2
Gage Jump pitches to Andruw Monasterio P2
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P2
Pitch 3 : Ball 3 P2
Pitch 4 : Strike 1 Looking P2
Pitch 5 : Ball 4 P2
Monasterio walked. P2
P2
Gage Jump pitches to Carlos Narvaez P2
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P2
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P2
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P2
Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P2
Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Looking P2
Narváez struck out looking. P2
P2
Middle of the 2nd inning P2
Bottom of the 2nd inning P2
Jake Bennett pitches to Tyler Soderstrom P2
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P2
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P2
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P2
Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P2
Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P2
Pitch 7 : Ball In Play P2
Soderstrom grounded out to shortstop. P2
P2
Jake Bennett pitches to Tommy White P2
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P2
White reached on infield single to third. P2
P2
Jake Bennett pitches to Colby Thomas P2
P2
Thomas hit sacrifice bunt to third, White to second. P2
P2
Jake Bennett pitches to Henry Bolte P2
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P2
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P2
Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P2
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P2
Bolte singled to center, White scored. P2
P2
Jake Bennett pitches to Alika Williams P2
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P2
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P2
Williams flied out to right. P2
P2
End of the 2nd inning P2
Top of the 3rd inning P3
Gage Jump pitches to Jahmai Jones P3
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P3
Jones grounded out to second. P3
P3
Gage Jump pitches to Romy Gonzalez P3
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P3
Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Looking P3
Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P3
Pitch 5 : Ball 4 P3
González walked. P3
P3
Gage Jump pitches to Willson Contreras P3
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P3
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P3
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P3
Contreras grounded into double play, third to second to first, González out at second. P3
P3
Middle of the 3rd inning P3
Bottom of the 3rd inning P3
Jake Bennett pitches to Brian Serven P3
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P3
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P3
Serven grounded out to shortstop. P3
P3
Jake Bennett pitches to Jacob Wilson P3
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P3
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P3
Wilson grounded out to third. P3
P3
Jake Bennett pitches to Nick Kurtz P3
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P3
Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Looking P3
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P3
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P3
Kurtz grounded out to first. P3
P3
End of the 3rd inning P3
Top of the 4th inning P4
Gage Jump pitches to Wilyer Abreu P4
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P4
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P4
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P4
Abreu flied out to left. P4
P4
Gage Jump pitches to Ceddanne Rafaela P4
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P4
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P4
Rafaela grounded out to third. P4
P4
Gage Jump pitches to Caleb Durbin P4
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P4
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P4
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P4
Pitch 4 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P4
Durbin flied out to right. P4
P4
Middle of the 4th inning P4
Bottom of the 4th inning P4
Jake Bennett pitches to Jonah Heim P4
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P4
Heim popped out to shortstop. P4
P4
Jake Bennett pitches to Tyler Soderstrom P4
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P4
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P4
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Looking P4
Soderstrom struck out looking. P4
P4
Jake Bennett pitches to Tommy White P4
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P4
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P4
White singled to right. P4
P4
Jake Bennett pitches to Colby Thomas P4
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P4
Thomas flied out to left. P4
P4
End of the 4th inning P4
Top of the 5th inning P5
Gage Jump pitches to Jarren Duran P5
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P5
Duran reached on bunt single to first. P5
P5
Gage Jump pitches to Andruw Monasterio P5
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P5
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P5
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P5
Duran picked off and caught stealing second. P5
Duran picked off and caught stealing second. P5
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P5
Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P5
Monasterio struck out swinging. P5
P5
Gage Jump pitches to Carlos Narvaez P5
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P5
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P5
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P5
Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P5
Pitch 5 : Ball 4 P5
Narváez walked. P5
P5
Gage Jump pitches to Jahmai Jones P5
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P5
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P5
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P5
Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Looking P5
Jones struck out looking. P5
P5
Middle of the 5th inning P5
Bottom of the 5th inning P5
Jake Bennett pitches to Henry Bolte P5
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P5
Bolte reached on bunt single to third. P5
P5
Jake Bennett pitches to Alika Williams P5
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P5
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P5
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P5
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P5
Williams flied out to right. P5
P5
Jake Bennett pitches to Brian Serven P5
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P5
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P5
Bolte stole second. P5
Bolte stole second. P5
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P5
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Looking P5
Serven struck out looking. Boston Red Sox challenged: call on the field was overturned. P5
P5
Jake Bennett pitches to Jacob Wilson P5
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P5
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P5
Wilson flied out to right. P5
P5
End of the 5th inning P5
Top of the 6th inning P6
Gage Jump pitches to Romy Gonzalez P6
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P6
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P6
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P6
Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P6
González struck out swinging. P6
P6
Gage Jump pitches to Willson Contreras P6
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P6
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P6
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P6
Contreras struck out swinging. P6
P6
Gage Jump pitches to Wilyer Abreu P6
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P6
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P6
Abreu grounded out to second. P6
P6
Middle of the 6th inning P6
Bottom of the 6th inning P6
Jake Bennett pitches to Nick Kurtz P6
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P6
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P6
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Swinging P6
Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Looking P6
Kurtz struck out looking. Boston Red Sox challenged: call on the field was overturned. P6
P6
Jake Bennett pitches to Jonah Heim P6
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P6
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P6
Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P6
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Swinging P6
Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P6
Pitch 7 : Ball 4 P6
Heim walked. P6
P6
Jake Bennett pitches to Tyler Soderstrom P6
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P6
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P6
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P6
Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P6
Soderstrom struck out swinging. P6
P6
Jake Bennett pitches to Tommy White P6
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P6
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P6
White singled to center, Heim to second. P6
P6
Jake Bennett pitches to Colby Thomas P6
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P6
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P6
Thomas grounded out to shortstop. P6
P6
End of the 6th inning P6
Top of the 7th inning P7
Medina relieved Jump P7
Luis Medina pitches to Ceddanne Rafaela P7
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P7
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P7
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P7
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P7
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P7
Rafaela singled to right. P7
P7
Luis Medina pitches to Caleb Durbin P7
P7
Durbin hit sacrifice bunt to pitcher, Rafaela to second. P7
P7
Luis Medina pitches to Jarren Duran P7
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P7
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P7
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P7
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P7
Duran struck out swinging. P7
P7
Luis Medina pitches to Andruw Monasterio P7
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P7
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P7
Monasterio flied out to center. P7
P7
Middle of the 7th inning P7
Bottom of the 7th inning P7
Jake Bennett pitches to Henry Bolte P7
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P7
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P7
Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P7
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Looking P7
Pitch 6 : Ball 4 P7
Bolte walked. Athletics challenged: call on the field was overturned. P7
P7
Jake Bennett pitches to Alika Williams P7
P7
Williams hit sacrifice bunt to pitcher, Bolte to second. P7
P7
Jake Bennett pitches to Brian Serven P7
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P7
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P7
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P7
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P7
Serven homered to center (419 feet), Bolte scored. P7
P7
Morán relieved Bennett P7
Jovani Moran pitches to Jacob Wilson P7
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P7
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P7
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P7
Wilson doubled to left. P7
P7
Jovani Moran pitches to Nick Kurtz P7
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P7
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P7
Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Looking P7
Kurtz struck out looking. P7
P7
Jovani Moran pitches to Jonah Heim P7
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7
Wilson stole third. P7
Wilson stole third. P7
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P7
Pitch 3 : Ball 3 P7
Pitch 4 : Strike 1 Looking P7
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Looking P7
Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P7
Heim lined out to second. P7
P7
End of the 7th inning P7
Top of the 8th inning P8
Yoshida hit for Narváez P8
Luis Medina pitches to Masataka Yoshida P8
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P8
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P8
Yoshida singled to right. P8
P8
Seigler hit for Jones P8
Luis Medina pitches to Anthony Seigler P8
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P8
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P8
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Swinging P8
Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P8
Pitch 6 : Ball 4 P8
Seigler walked, Yoshida to second. P8
P8
Luis Medina pitches to Romy Gonzalez P8
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P8
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P8
González grounded into double play, second to first, Seigler out at second, Yoshida to third. P8
P8
Luis Medina pitches to Willson Contreras P8
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P8
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P8
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P8
Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P8
Pitch 6 : Ball 4 P8
Contreras walked. P8
P8
Harris relieved Medina P8
Hogan Harris pitches to Wilyer Abreu P8
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P8
Pitch 3 : Ball 3 P8
Pitch 4 : Strike 1 Looking P8
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Looking P8
Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P8
Abreu singled to right, Yoshida scored, Contreras to third. P8
P8
Hogan Harris pitches to Ceddanne Rafaela P8
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P8
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P8
Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P8
Rafaela struck out swinging. P8
P8
Middle of the 8th inning P8
Bottom of the 8th inning P8
Seigler as designated hitter. P8
Wong catching. P8
Watson relieved Morán P8
Ryan Watson pitches to Tyler Soderstrom P8
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P8
Soderstrom grounded out to catcher. P8
P8
Ryan Watson pitches to Tommy White P8
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P8
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P8
White singled to left. P8
P8
Butler hit for Thomas P8
Ryan Watson pitches to Lawrence Butler P8
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P8
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P8
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P8
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P8
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P8
Butler doubled to center, White scored. P8
P8
Ryan Watson pitches to Henry Bolte P8
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P8
Bolte flied out to right, Butler to third. P8
P8
Ryan Watson pitches to Alika Williams P8
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P8
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P8
Williams grounded out to shortstop. P8
P8
End of the 8th inning P8
Top of the 9th inning P9
Butler in right field. P9
Hogan Harris pitches to Caleb Durbin P9
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P9
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P9
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P9
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Looking P9
Durbin struck out looking. P9
P9
Hogan Harris pitches to Jarren Duran P9
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P9
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P9
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P9
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P9
Duran reached on infield single to shortstop. P9
P9
Hogan Harris pitches to Andruw Monasterio P9
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P9
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P9
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P9
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P9
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P9
Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Looking P9
Monasterio struck out looking. P9
P9
Hogan Harris pitches to Connor Wong P9
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P9
Wong homered to left (394 feet), Duran scored. P9
P9
Hogan Harris pitches to Anthony Seigler P9
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P9
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P9
Seigler flied out to center. P9
P9