Payton Tolle struck out fourteen Athletics across six innings — four hitters in the first, three in the second, two in the third — and he did it on eighty-four pitches, sixty-one for strikes, allowing one run on two hits. The Red Sox offense was almost beside the point, but it was thorough: Jarren Duran's two-run homer in the second started it, Wilyer Abreu drove in three, and Hayden Juenger allowed five hits and four runs in a single inning of relief. Tyler Soderstrom's eighteenth home run in the fifth was Oakland's only run. Raymond Burgos pitched the final three innings for the save, which tells you what kind of night it was.