After their bats slept through Monday night's game, the Red Sox woke up last night and beat the A's 5-2 behind their All-Star contingent.
Josh Beckett (10-3) joined teammate Tim Wakefield in the 10-win club. Beckett went 6.2 innings, allowing two runs on six hits with a walk and four strikeouts.
Jason Bay broke out of his slump with a double, homer, two runs scored, a walk and two steals. Dustin Pedroia, who missed Monday night's game to be with his wife in the hospital (she's about to give birth), returned last night with an RBI single and walk.
Closer Jonathan Papelbon gave up one hit but still struck out the side in the ninth for his 21st save of the season.
Oakland (35-47) took a 1-0 lead in the first when Scott Hairston hit a solo home run off Beckett.
Boston (50-33) took a 2-1 lead in the second on Bay's homer (a bomb to the light tower in center) and a run came home when Nick Green grounded into a double play.
In the third, Jason Varitek (2 hits) plated two runs with a single.
Adam Kennedy cut it to 4-2 Boston in the fifth with an RBI double but Pedroia drove in the last run with the single in the sixth.
The Red Sox look to take the rubber game of the series tonight with Wakefield getting the start.
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