BOSTON (AP) — Oakland’s Pat Venditte became the first pitcher in 20 years to throw with both arms in the same game, but Boston’s Wade Miley pitched neatly into the eighth inning as the Red Sox beat the Athletics 4-2 on Friday night.
The game was delayed after the top of the second when a woman was removed by stretcher from the Fenway Park stands bleeding from the head after being struck by a broken bat. She was hit when Oakland’s Brett Lawrie broke his bat on a groundout to second base for the second out of the inning.
Dustin Pedroia had three hits for Boston, which led 3-0 after four innings and ended Oakland’s four-game winning streak.
Miley (5-5) allowed an RBI single to Marc Canha in the fifth, but Boston made it 4-1 on a run-scoring single by Brock Holt in the bottom of the inning off Scott Kazmir (2-4).
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