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 OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - The Boston Red Sox thought they were exhausted when they got into their Bay Area hotel at dawn Monday after losing two of three to the Yankees. They had no idea their longest day of the year was just beginning — and that it would end with a 225-minute, 11-inning, improbably dramatic loss to the Oakland Athletics.
Mark Ellis became the sixth Oakland player to hit for the cycle, and Eric Chavez ended it with a two-out homer for the A's, who recovered from Boston's ninth-inning rally for a tumultuous 5-4 victory.
Chavez left no doubt on his eighth homer of the season, this one off Kyle Snyder (1-1), ending a game with a homer for just the second time in his career. But there was plenty of doubt before that in Boston's fourth loss in five games, starting when the Red Sox erased Dan Haren's outstanding start with a two-run rally in the ninth.
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