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Well everything in Oakland went just about as well as expected. Vegas probably didn’t make much. Schilling and Beckett both pitched very well and combined with the Sox bats for back to back wins against the AL West leading A’s. The Kyle Snyder start didn’t go so well however. Again, I am sure Snyder vs. Haren wasn’t exactly a tough line in Vegas though. Hats off to Haren though. He held the Sox to a single run in the game while DH slugger Frank Thomas homered twice to lead the A’s to a win in the third game of the series.
One interesting thing to note is that in a radio interview after the series, A’s ace pitcher Barry Zito talked with Bay Area sports radio jockeys at length about how there were more Red Sox fans at the first two Sox-A’s games than there were Athletics fans. Although he felt it wasn’t quite a Fenway atmostphere, Zito said it “definately didn’t feel like a home game” which he felt it should. This is particularly impressive considering the A’s are in the middle of their own pennant run in the AL West. Its one thing to see Sox fans at the Tropicana but its entirely different at a division leader’s home turf. Red Sox Nation in full effect. There were less Sox fans at the day game on Wednesday in Oakland because, well, Boston people actually have jobs.
The Sox came back to Boston yesterday and take on the red-hot Angels of Southern California.
theaveragefan@bostonprosports.com
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