Athletics fall to Red Sox in 10, ending five-game win streak

The Athletics five-game win streak ended Thursday night as the Red Sox hit a 10th-inning walk off against them in Boston.

BY FIELD LEVEL MEDIA

Sep 18, 2025, 8:45 AM Updated: 12:42 pm

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Nick Sogard’s grounder to second base scored Nate Eaton from third in the bottom of the 10th inning to give the Boston Red Sox a 5-4 victory over the visiting Athletics on Wednesday night.

Sogard pinch-hit for Ceddanne Rafaela with one out and runners on second and third.

The Athletics (71-81) had runners on first and third with no outs in the top of the 10th but failed to score. Zack Kelly then struck out Darell Hernaiz and got Zack Gelof to pop out before Chris Murphy (3-0) entered and fanned Nick Kurtz.

Michael Kelly (4-4) pitched the bottom of the 10th as the Athletics’ five-game winning streak ended.

Rob Refsnyder homered for the Red Sox (83-69), who won even though they went 3-for-17 with runners in scoring position and stranded 13 baserunners.

Boston are tied with Seattle (83-69) in the battle for the second and third American League wild cards. The Cleveland Guardians (80-71) are 2 1/2 games behind the Red Sox and the Mariners.

Jarren Duran had three of Boston’s 10 hits. Masataka Yoshida added two hits and two RBIs, and Trevor Story contributed two hits and an RBI.

The Athletics received three hits from Jacob Wilson and three RBIs from Hernaiz.

Story scored on Yoshida’s two-out single to give the Red Sox a 1-0 lead in the first inning, but the Athletics made it 1-1 when Lawrence Butler came home on a Hernaiz sacrifice fly in the top of the second.

Boston regained the lead when Refsnyder led off the bottom of the second by hitting his ninth home run of the season.

The Athletics went up 4-2 by scoring three runs in the fifth. Butler’s bases-loaded walk tied the game, and Hernaiz followed with a two-run single.

It was 4-3 after Yoshida’s second single of the game drove in Rafaela in the fifth, and Boston tied the game when Story knocked in Nathaniel Lowe in the sixth.

–Field Level Media

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Brett Harris collected the go-ahead RBI single in a two-run sixth inning and the duo of Mitch Spence and Hogan Harris pitched five innings of shutout relief, leading the visiting Athletics to a 2-1 series-opening win over the Boston Red Sox on Tuesday night.

The Athletics (71-80) were unable to score in the first five innings of Boston starter Connelly Early’s second career outing before going for two runs on three hits in the sixth en route to their fifth straight win. Harris (2-for-4) and Tyler Soderstrom (2-for-2, RBI, run) both recorded multiple hits.

A’s starter Jeffrey Springs allowed one unearned run on five hits across the first four innings. Spence (3-5) was the winner following 3 2/3 innings of shutout, one-hit relief.

Harris recorded the final four outs, using a game-ending double play to erase Ceddanne Rafaela from the bases following a one-out single in the ninth. The save was his third of the season.

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