Game 132: A’s 3, Sox 9

Game 1 of a doubleheader included two rain delays accounting for 3 hours of waiting. The Sox played 2 to try to avoid a future rain delay based on Hurricane Irene cutting through the East Coast. I think Oakland had to travel too and they were worried about them getting out of Boston with the storm if they played on Sunday.

Sox scored in each of the first 5 innings and turned 13 hits and 3 walks into 9 runs. Varitek had the big hit, a 2 run home run in the 2^nd. Aviles led the team in hits with 3 but Scutaro, Gonzalez, Ortiz, and Varitek each had multi-hit games too.

Lester got the win giving up 2 runs (1 earned) over 6 innings. Wheeler and Bowden finished the game giving up only 1 more run in 3 innings.