The Sox needed 3 homers from Youk, red hot Jed Lowrie & J.D. Drew to earn their 1st road win of the season 5-3 & split the short 2 games series with the Oakland A's.
Clay Buchholz earned his first win of the year with an OK performance. 4 walks in 5+ is not the formula for success, but Buck had a lot of help from Daniel Bard to get out of a bases-loaded jam to close down the 6th.
The Sox now move down the road to Anaheim for 4 games starting tonight. The Angels are hot right now. Earning another split would OK. Anything better would be a plus.
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Interesting how Franconia managed the last two Oakland games. 1) he managed like a double header with line-ups catchers etc. 2) he managed the 2nd game like a playoff push, bring in Bard in the 6th to get 2 outs and out of a jam, Paplebon in the 8th to get 1 and out of a jam. He really wanted this win.
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