Boston Red Sox 5 – 4 Athletics

MLB · July 31, 2026 · Final

🎧 Post-Game Report (audio)

Post-Game Recap

The Boston Red Sox came back to edge the Athletics four to five in a game that had three different leads and a late-inning gut punch that settled it for good.

Oakland drew first blood and did it in bunches. The A's jumped on Boston for three runs across the third and fourth innings — Wilson singling home Cortes, then Butler doubling in Heim, and a Walton single that turned into three bases on an Abreu error in right field. Red Sox down three, things looking bleak.

But Boston answered in the fifth, and they answered loud. Monasterio got it started with a single to center, then Ceddanne Rafaela doubled to left and the whole inning unraveled for Oakland — a Walton throwing error allowed two more runs to score, and just like that it was knotted at three. The Athletics reclaimed the lead in the sixth on a Cortes sacrifice fly, Butler crossing home to make it four to three.

Then the eighth inning happened. Wilyer Abreu stepped up and crushed one four hundred twenty-two feet to center — ballgame tied. And before Oakland could exhale, William Contreras followed it with a four hundred fourteen foot shot to the same spot. Back-to-back home runs, lead flipped, game over. Contreras went two for three with a walk, and Rafaela drove in two with that fifth-inning double that started the comeback.

Boston stole one tonight on the strength of two swings. 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

Wilson singled to center, Cortes scored, Kurtz to second. P3 · 0–1
Butler doubled to right, Heim scored. P4 · 0–2
Walton singled to right, Butler scored on error, McNeil to second, McNeil safe at third on fielding error by right fielder Abreu. P4 · 0–3
Monasterio singled to center, Durbin scored. P5 · 1–3
Rafaela doubled to left, Seigler scored on error and Monasterio scored, Rafaela safe at third on throwing error by shortstop Walton. P5 · 3–3
Cortes hit sacrifice fly to left, Butler scored. P6 · 3–4
Abreu homered to center (422 feet). P8 · 4–4
Contreras homered to center (414 feet). P8 · 5–4

Complete Play-by-Play

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Top of the 1st inning P1

Mason Barnett pitches to Anthony Seigler P1

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P1

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P1

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P1

Seigler grounded out to second. P1

Mason Barnett pitches to Ceddanne Rafaela P1

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P1

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P1

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P1

Rafaela struck out swinging. P1

Mason Barnett pitches to Wilyer Abreu P1

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P1

Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P1

Abreu struck out swinging. P1

Middle of the 1st inning P1

Bottom of the 1st inning P1

Sonny Gray pitches to Nick Kurtz P1

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P1

Kurtz lined out to first. P1

Sonny Gray pitches to Jacob Wilson P1

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P1

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P1

Wilson doubled to left. P1

Sonny Gray pitches to Tyler Soderstrom P1

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P1

Soderstrom grounded out to pitcher, Wilson to third. P1

Sonny Gray pitches to Jonah Heim P1

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P1

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P1

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P1

Heim grounded out to first. P1

End of the 1st inning P1

Top of the 2nd inning P2

Mason Barnett pitches to Willson Contreras P2

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P2

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P2

Contreras flied out to right. P2

Mason Barnett pitches to Masataka Yoshida P2

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P2

Yoshida grounded out to third. P2

Mason Barnett pitches to Caleb Durbin P2

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P2

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P2

Durbin flied out to right. P2

Middle of the 2nd inning P2

Bottom of the 2nd inning P2

Sonny Gray pitches to Tommy White P2

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P2

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P2

White flied out to right. P2

Sonny Gray pitches to Lawrence Butler P2

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P2

Butler flied out to center. P2

Sonny Gray pitches to Jeff McNeil P2

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P2

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P2

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P2

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P2

McNeil grounded out to second. P2

End of the 2nd inning P2

Top of the 3rd inning P3

Mason Barnett pitches to Jarren Duran P3

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P3

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P3

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Swinging P3

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P3

Duran struck out swinging. P3

Mason Barnett pitches to Andruw Monasterio P3

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P3

Monasterio flied out to right. P3

Mason Barnett pitches to Connor Wong P3

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P3

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P3

Pitch 4 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P3

Pitch 6 : Ball 2 P3

Pitch 7 : Strike 3 Looking P3

Wong struck out looking. P3

Middle of the 3rd inning P3

Bottom of the 3rd inning P3

Sonny Gray pitches to Carlos Cortes P3

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P3

Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Swinging P3

Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P3

Pitch 5 : Ball 4 P3

Cortes walked. P3

Sonny Gray pitches to Donovan Walton P3

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P3

Walton grounded out to pitcher, Cortes to second. P3

Sonny Gray pitches to Nick Kurtz P3

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P3

Kurtz safe at first on fielding error by shortstop Monasterio, Cortes safe at third on error. P3

Sonny Gray pitches to Jacob Wilson P3

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P3

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P3

Wilson singled to center, Cortes scored, Kurtz to second. P3

Sonny Gray pitches to Tyler Soderstrom P3

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P3

Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Looking P3

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P3

Soderstrom grounded into double play, shortstop to first, Wilson out at second. P3

End of the 3rd inning P3

Top of the 4th inning P4

Mason Barnett pitches to Anthony Seigler P4

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P4

Seigler flied out to left. P4

Mason Barnett pitches to Ceddanne Rafaela P4

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P4

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P4

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P4

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P4

Rafaela singled to center. P4

Mason Barnett pitches to Wilyer Abreu P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P4

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P4

Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Looking P4

Abreu struck out looking. P4

Mason Barnett pitches to Willson Contreras P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P4

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P4

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P4

Rafaela stole second. P4

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P4

Pitch 6 : Ball 4 P4

Contreras walked. P4

Mason Barnett pitches to Masataka Yoshida P4

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P4

Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Foul P4

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P4

Yoshida grounded out to first. P4

Middle of the 4th inning P4

Bottom of the 4th inning P4

Sonny Gray pitches to Jonah Heim P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P4

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P4

Heim doubled to center. P4

Sonny Gray pitches to Tommy White P4

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P4

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P4

White grounded out to shortstop. P4

Sonny Gray pitches to Lawrence Butler P4

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P4

Butler doubled to right, Heim scored. P4

Sonny Gray pitches to Jeff McNeil P4

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P4

McNeil singled to right, Butler to third. P4

Sonny Gray pitches to Carlos Cortes P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P4

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P4

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P4

Cortes struck out swinging. P4

Sonny Gray pitches to Donovan Walton P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P4

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P4

Walton singled to right, Butler scored on error, McNeil to second, McNeil safe at third on fielding error by right fielder Abreu. P4

Sonny Gray pitches to Nick Kurtz P4

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P4

Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Looking P4

Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P4

Pitch 5 : Ball 4 P4

Kurtz walked, Walton to second. P4

Sonny Gray pitches to Jacob Wilson P4

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P4

Wilson popped out to second. P4

End of the 4th inning P4

Top of the 5th inning P5

Mason Barnett pitches to Caleb Durbin P5

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P5

Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Looking P5

Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P5

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P5

Durbin hit by pitch. P5

Mason Barnett pitches to Jarren Duran P5

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P5

Duran grounded out to second, Durbin to second. P5

Mason Barnett pitches to Andruw Monasterio P5

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P5

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P5

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P5

Monasterio singled to center, Durbin scored. P5

Mason Barnett pitches to Connor Wong P5

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P5

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P5

Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P5

Wong struck out swinging. P5

Mason Barnett pitches to Anthony Seigler P5

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P5

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P5

Seigler reached on infield single to shortstop, Monasterio to second. P5

Mason Barnett pitches to Ceddanne Rafaela P5

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P5

Rafaela doubled to left, Seigler scored on error and Monasterio scored, Rafaela safe at third on throwing error by shortstop Walton. P5

Mason Barnett pitches to Wilyer Abreu P5

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P5

Abreu flied out to left. P5

Middle of the 5th inning P5

Bottom of the 5th inning P5

Sonny Gray pitches to Tyler Soderstrom P5

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P5

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P5

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P5

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P5

Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P5

Pitch 7 : Ball 3 P5

Pitch 8 : Ball In Play P5

Soderstrom lined out to second. P5

Sonny Gray pitches to Jonah Heim P5

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P5

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P5

Heim grounded out to first. P5

Sonny Gray pitches to Tommy White P5

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P5

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P5

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P5

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P5

White lined out to center. P5

End of the 5th inning P5

Top of the 6th inning P6

Blewett relieved Barnett P6

Scott Blewett pitches to Willson Contreras P6

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P6

Contreras singled to left. P6

Scott Blewett pitches to Masataka Yoshida P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P6

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P6

Yoshida singled to right, Contreras to second. P6

Scott Blewett pitches to Caleb Durbin P6

Durbin hit sacrifice bunt to third, Yoshida to second, Contreras to third. P6

Scott Blewett pitches to Jarren Duran P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P6

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P6

Duran flied out to left. P6

Scott Blewett pitches to Andruw Monasterio P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P6

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P6

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P6

Monasterio struck out swinging. P6

Middle of the 6th inning P6

Bottom of the 6th inning P6

Sonny Gray pitches to Lawrence Butler P6

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P6

Butler doubled to center. P6

Sonny Gray pitches to Jeff McNeil P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P6

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P6

McNeil flied out to center, Butler to third. P6

Sonny Gray pitches to Carlos Cortes P6

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P6

Cortes hit sacrifice fly to left, Butler scored. P6

Sonny Gray pitches to Donovan Walton P6

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P6

Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Foul P6

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P6

Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Looking P6

Walton struck out looking. P6

End of the 6th inning P6

Top of the 7th inning P7

Scott Blewett pitches to Connor Wong P7

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P7

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P7

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P7

Wong lined out to right. P7

Scott Blewett pitches to Anthony Seigler P7

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P7

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P7

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P7

Seigler grounded out to second. P7

Scott Blewett pitches to Ceddanne Rafaela P7

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P7

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P7

Rafaela grounded out to third. P7

Middle of the 7th inning P7

Bottom of the 7th inning P7

Sonny Gray pitches to Nick Kurtz P7

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P7

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P7

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P7

Kurtz struck out swinging. P7

Sonny Gray pitches to Jacob Wilson P7

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P7

Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Looking P7

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P7

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Looking P7

Wilson struck out looking. P7

Sonny Gray pitches to Tyler Soderstrom P7

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P7

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P7

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P7

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P7

Soderstrom struck out swinging. P7

End of the 7th inning P7

Top of the 8th inning P8

Medina relieved Blewett P8

Luis Medina pitches to Wilyer Abreu P8

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P8

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P8

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P8

Abreu homered to center (422 feet). P8

Luis Medina pitches to Willson Contreras P8

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P8

Contreras homered to center (414 feet). P8

Luis Medina pitches to Masataka Yoshida P8

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P8

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 7 : Strike 3 Swinging P8

Yoshida struck out swinging. P8

Luis Medina pitches to Caleb Durbin P8

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P8

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P8

Durbin grounded out to pitcher. P8

Luis Medina pitches to Jarren Duran P8

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P8

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P8

Duran grounded out to third. P8

Middle of the 8th inning P8

Bottom of the 8th inning P8

Weissert relieved Gray P8

Greg Weissert pitches to Jonah Heim P8

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P8

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P8

Heim singled to center. P8

Bolte ran for Heim P8

Greg Weissert pitches to Tommy White P8

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P8

White grounded into double play, shortstop to first, Bolte out at second. P8

Greg Weissert pitches to Lawrence Butler P8

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P8

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P8

Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P8

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Swinging P8

Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Swinging P8

Butler struck out swinging. P8

End of the 8th inning P8

Top of the 9th inning P9

Serven catching. P9

Alvarado relieved Medina P9

Elvis Alvarado pitches to Andruw Monasterio P9

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P9

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P9

Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P9

Monasterio struck out swinging. P9

Elvis Alvarado pitches to Connor Wong P9

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P9

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P9

Pitch 3 : Ball 3 P9

Pitch 4 : Strike 1 Looking P9

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Looking P9

Pitch 6 : Ball 4 P9

Wong walked. P9

Elvis Alvarado pitches to Anthony Seigler P9

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P9

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P9

Seigler grounded into double play, pitcher to shortstop to first, Wong out at second. P9

Middle of the 9th inning P9

Bottom of the 9th inning P9

Chapman relieved Weissert P9

Aroldis Chapman pitches to Jeff McNeil P9

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P9

McNeil grounded out to third. P9

Williams hit for Cortes P9

Aroldis Chapman pitches to Alika Williams P9

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P9

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P9

Williams doubled to left. P9

Thomas hit for Walton P9

Aroldis Chapman pitches to Colby Thomas P9

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P9

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P9

Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Looking P9

Thomas struck out looking. Athletics challenged: call on the field was upheld. P9

Aroldis Chapman pitches to Nick Kurtz P9

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P9

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P9

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P9

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P9

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P9

Kurtz struck out swinging. P9

End of the 9th inning P9