Fenway Fiasco: Sox Gift-Wrap Win for Oakland Like It’s Secret Santa
Bello implodes early, Story can’t throw straight, and the Sox offense takes the night off — ladies and gentlemen, your playoff contenders!
Game Recap: Sox Show Up Late, Leave Early
Fenway Park, September 18, 2025 — you ever watch a game and wonder if the Red Sox are secretly trolling us? Tonight was one of those nights.
Oakland — yes, that Oakland, the baseball equivalent of a garage sale — waltzed into Fenway and smacked the Sox around 5-3.
Top 1st: Brayan Bello gets on the mound and immediately reenacts a piñata party. Four straight hits, Brent Rooker blasts his 30th homer, and it’s 3-0 A’s before anyone’s even found their seats. Somewhere, Pedro’s shaking his head and ordering another rum.
Bottom 1st: Sox scrape a run on a Yoshida sac fly. Cute. Like putting a Band-Aid on a gunshot wound.
Bottom 2nd: David Hamilton says, “Don’t worry guys, I got this” and hits a solo homer. It’s now 3-2, and Fenway pretends to have hope again.
Top 3rd: Trevor Story decides, “Defense is optional.” Throws the ball like he’s skipping rocks at Revere Beach. A’s score again, 4-2.
Top 7th: Story at it again. Another throwing error. Another A’s run. Trevor Story: slugger by day, Oakland’s most valuable player by night.
Bottom 8th: Story redeems himself slightly by hitting a solo homer. Problem is, baseball is not golf — solo shots don’t cut it when you’re trailing. Sox trail 5-3.
9th inning: Hogan Harris, Oakland’s reliever, looks like Mariano Rivera compared to Boston’s lineup. Game over. Crowd files out muttering things that can’t be printed here.
Player Highlights (aka, The Accused and the Accomplices)
Brent Rooker (A’s) – Hits his 30th homer. If the Sox pitchers didn’t know who he was before, they do now. Therapy bills incoming.
Trevor Story (Sox) – Two hits, a homer, and two throwing errors. It’s like watching a guy rob his own house, then call the cops on himself.
David Hamilton (Sox) – Solo shot. Great moment. Unfortunately, the Sox need more than one person trying.
Brayan Bello (Sox) – Four innings, four runs. Bello basically dug a hole, then handed the bullpen a plastic spoon and said, “Good luck.”
Hogan Harris (A’s) – Two innings, three Ks, and somehow made the Sox look like they’d never seen a baseball before.
Quotes & Commentary
Alex Cora postgame: “We didn’t play clean baseball.” Translation: “We played like a beer league team after last call.”
Bello: “My pitches weren’t sharp.” No kidding. The A’s were swinging like it was batting practice.
Story: “Gotta clean up the throws.” Yeah, like yesterday. Maybe invest in an arm transplant.
Opponent Misfires
The A’s stranded runners like they were auditioning for “Survivor.” They could’ve won 10-3 if they weren’t so generous.
Defensively, Oakland looked like a Little League squad a couple times. Sox, naturally, responded by grounding out softly to second.
J.T. Ginn wasn’t lights-out, but against Boston’s bats tonight he might as well have been Sandy Koufax.
Red Sox Momentum Check
Record now: 83-70.
Recent stretch: lost five of seven.
Mood in Boston: Somewhere between “burn it all down” and “we still got a shot, right?”
Wild Card race? Sox are tied with Seattle, Cleveland breathing down their necks, and Houston lurking like a bad ex. Momentum? Please. Momentum in Boston is as real as Bigfoot.
Future Outlook: Rays Up Next (Cue the Horror Music)
Next series? Tampa Bay. On the road. In a dome that feels like playing baseball inside a Walmart. Sox starters lined up: Crochet, Harrison, and Early. Hope you like strikeouts and groundouts because the Rays sure do.
Keys to survival:
Get a starter past the 5th inning. It’s legal, I checked.
Stop booting grounders. Crazy concept.
Score runs in bunches. Not just a random solo shot every three innings.
Will they do any of that? Tune in and find out, if you enjoy pain.
Final Thought
The Red Sox didn’t just lose this game — they tripped over their own shoelaces and fell face-first into a rake while doing it. Oakland, the baseball version of a going-out-of-business sale, just strutted into Fenway and embarrassed a team allegedly fighting for a playoff spot.
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