Sox Escape the A’s in 10 — Baseball’s Version of Falling Down the Stairs and Sticking the Landing
A walk-off in extras that felt less like strategy and more like dumb luck wrapped in duct tape.
The Final Score: Sox 5, A’s 4 — A Win Only a Mother Could Love
Your Boston Red Sox managed to beat the Oakland A’s in 10 innings, 5–4, and if you watched it, congratulations: you now qualify for hazard pay. This wasn’t so much a victory as it was a crime scene where both teams left fingerprints, and somehow Boston stumbled out with the wallet.
The Sox are…
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