TNK - Boston Red Sox Franchise
Game #39 of the season
Oakland A's (15-23) @ Boston Red Sox (21-17)
Pitching Matchup - James Kaprielian vs Nick Pivetta
The A's jumped all over Nick Pivetta early as Matt Chapman hammered a ball high off the green monster in the top of the 1st for a RBI double that scored a pair of runs to give Oakland a 2-0 lead. Mark Canha and Ramon Laureano hit back to back home runs in the 2nd inning to make it 4-0 and Canha would hit another HR in the 4th inning to extend the A's lead to 5-0. James Kaprielian was perfect through 4 innings retiring the first 12 Red Sox hitters and we would go to the 5th inning with Oakland up 5-0. Boston would get their first hit on a double by Devers in the bottom of the 5th but Kaprielian would get Renfroe to fly out to end the inning and send the game to the 6th with the score 5-0. The A's loaded the bases in the top of the 7th with 1 out for Seth Brown but Whitlock would get him to bounce back to the mound and came home to the plate to start an inning ending 1-2-3 double play. Kaprielian continued to dominate on the mound as he retired the side in order in the bottom of the 7th & 8th innings and had limited the Red Sox to 1 hit through 8 innings. Matt Barnes came on to pitch the top of the 9th and get some work and made quick work of the A's to bring Boston to the plate trailing 5-0 in the bottom of the 9th. Kaprielian returned to the mound and finished off a complete game one hit shutout as the Red Sox went down in order and the A's win 5-0 to complete the 3 game sweep of the Red Sox in Boston
* The A's win 5-0 behind the bats of Mark Canha & Ramon Laureano and a gem of a pitching performance from James Kaprielian to complete the 3 game sweep of the Red Sox
* The Red Sox have lost 3 straight and fall to 21-18 while the A's improve to 16-23 on the season
* The Red Sox offense has gone ice cold and have been shut out in their last two game and not produced a run in their last 21 innings
* James Karpielian was just called up from AAA for Oakland and was making his first MLB start after making his MLB debut and appearing in 2 games in relief last season and Kaprielian delivered an absolute gem as he throws a complete game one hit shutout allowing just a double to Devers in the 5th inning. Kaprielian finished with a line of 9 innings pitched allowing no runs on 1 hit with 1 walk and 5 Ks to earn the win
* Nick Pivetta was tagged for 5 runs in 4.1 innings on 8 hits with 2 walks and 2 Ks and allowed 3 HR as he takes the loss to drop to 4-3 with a 4.31 ERA
* Mark Canha and Ramon Laureano went back to back in the 2nd inning off Pivetta and Canha would go deep again in the 4th inning as he now has 5 HR on the season and Laureano hit his 4th HR of the season
* The Red Sox will remain at home for their next series as the Los Angeles Angels come to town for a 3 game series at Fenway Park. The Angels are currently sitting in 2nd place place in the AL West with a record of 19-20 on the season and will send Griffin Canning to the mound in the opener while Martin Perez will get the start for Boston
HIGHLIGHTS
Mark Canha and Ramon Laureano went back to back in the 2nd inning to open up a 4-0 lead for Oakland
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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><link href="http://dynasties.operationsports.com/css/osdyn.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"></head><body><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn" width="575"><tr class="masthead"><td align="center" colspan="13">Oakland Athletics at Boston Red Sox</td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td width="40%">May 13, 2021</td><td align="right" width="5%">1</td><td align="right" width="5%">2</td><td align="right" width="5%">3</td><td align="right" width="5%">4</td><td align="right" width="5%">5</td><td align="right" width="5%">6</td><td align="right" width="5%">7</td><td align="right" width="5%">8</td><td align="right" width="5%">9</td><td align="right" width="5%">R</td><td align="right" width="5%">H</td><td align="right" width="5%">E</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Oakland (16-23)</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">5</td><td align="right">12</td><td align="right">0</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Boston (21-18)</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td align="center" colspan="13"><b>W:</b> James Kaprielian (1-0) <b>L:</b> Nick Pivetta (4-3)</td></tr></table><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn spacer" width="575"><tr class="masthead"><td colspan="5">Scoring Summary</td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td colspan="3" width="84%">SCORING DETAILS</td><td align="right" width="8%">OAK</td><td align="right" width="8%">BOS</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td align="center" width="7%">OAK</td><td align="center" width="7%">1</td><td width="70%">Matt Chapman doubled to LF (Andrus & Lowrie score)</td><td align="right" width="8%">2</td><td align="right" width="8%">0</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td align="center" width="7%">OAK</td><td align="center" width="7%">2</td><td width="70%">Mark Canha solo HR to LF</td><td align="right" width="8%">3</td><td align="right" width="8%">0</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td align="center" width="7%">OAK</td><td align="center" width="7%">2</td><td width="70%">Ramon Laureano solo HR to LF</td><td align="right" width="8%">4</td><td align="right" width="8%">0</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td align="center" width="7%">OAK</td><td align="center" width="7%">4</td><td width="70%">Ramon Laureano solo HR to LF</td><td align="right" width="8%">5</td><td align="right" width="8%">0</td></tr></table><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn spacer" width="575"><tr class="masthead_alt"><td bgcolor="#00483A" colspan="9"><span style="color:#FDBA31">Oakland Athletics</span></td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td width="41%">HITTERS</td><td align="right" width="7%">AB</td><td align="right" width="7%">R</td><td align="right" width="7%">H</td><td align="right" width="7%">RBI</td><td align="right" width="7%">BB</td><td align="right" width="7%">SO</td><td align="right" width="7%">HR</td><td align="right" width="10%">AVG</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Andrus, SS</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.240</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Lowrie, 2B</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.213</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Olson, 1B</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.247</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Chapman, 3B</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.289</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Brown, RF</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.216</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Canha, LF</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right" class="active">.310</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Laureano, CF</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right" class="active">.264</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Pinder, DH</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.188</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Murphy, C</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.236</td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td>TEAM TOTALS</td><td align="right">36</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">12</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right"></td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td colspan="9"><b><u>BATTING:</u></b><br /><b>2B:</b> Chapman (11)<br /><b>HR:</b> Canha 2 (5), Laureano (4)<br /><b>RBI:</b> Canha 2 (16), Chapman 2 (15), Laureano (14)<br /><b>GIDP:</b> Brown</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td colspan="9"><b><u>BASERUNNING:</u></b><br /><b>CS:</b> Chapman (2)</td></tr></table><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn spacer" width="575"><tr class="masthead_alt"><td bgcolor="#ee1422" colspan="9"><span style="color:#FFFFFF">Boston Red Sox</span></td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td width="41%">HITTERS</td><td align="right" width="7%">AB</td><td align="right" width="7%">R</td><td align="right" width="7%">H</td><td align="right" width="7%">RBI</td><td align="right" width="7%">BB</td><td align="right" width="7%">SO</td><td align="right" width="7%">HR</td><td align="right" width="10%">AVG</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Hernandez, CF</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.215</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Verdugo, LF</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.240</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Martinez, DH</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.256</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Bogaerts, SS</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.316</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Devers, 3B</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.265</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Vazquez, C</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.257</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Renfroe, RF</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.297</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Gonzalez, 1B</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.185</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Arroyo, 2B</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.250</td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td>TEAM TOTALS</td><td align="right">27</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"></td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td colspan="9"><b><u>BATTING:</u></b><br /><b>2B:</b> Devers (6)</td></tr></table><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn spacer" width="575"><tr class="masthead_alt"><td bgcolor="#00483A" colspan="9"><span style="color:#FDBA31">Oakland Athletics</span></td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td width="41%">PITCHERS</td><td align="right" width="7%">IP</td><td align="right" width="7%">H</td><td align="right" width="7%">R</td><td align="right" width="7%">ER</td><td align="right" width="7%">BB</td><td align="right" width="7%">SO</td><td align="right" width="7%">HR</td><td align="right" width="10%">ERA</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>James Kaprielian (W, 1-0)</td><td align="right">9.0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">0.00</td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td>TEAM TOTALS</td><td align="right">9.0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"></td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td colspan="9"><b><u>PITCHING:</u></b><br /><b>Pitches-Strikes:</b> Kaprielian - 99 Pitches / 73% Strikes</td></tr></table><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn spacer" width="575"><tr class="masthead_alt"><td bgcolor="#ee1422" colspan="9"><span style="color:#FFFFFF">Boston Red Sox</span></td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td width="41%">PITCHERS</td><td align="right" width="7%">IP</td><td align="right" width="7%">H</td><td align="right" width="7%">R</td><td align="right" width="7%">ER</td><td align="right" width="7%">BB</td><td align="right" width="7%">SO</td><td align="right" width="7%">HR</td><td align="right" width="10%">ERA</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Nick Pivetta (L, 4-3)</td><td align="right">4.1</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right" class="active">4.31</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Matt Andriese</td><td align="right">2.0</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">1.88</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Garrett Whitlock</td><td align="right">1.2</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">3.60</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Matt Barnes</td><td align="right">1.0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">0.00</td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td>TEAM TOTALS</td><td align="right">9.0</td><td align="right">12</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right"></td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td colspan="9"><b><u>PITCHING:</u></b><br /><b>Pitches-Strikes:</b> Pivetta - 75 Pitches / 60% Strikes</td></tr></table></body></html>
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