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Red Sox Rally For 7 Runs In 8th, Sweep Athletics 7-4

Boston Red Sox's Clay Buchholz delivers a pitch against the Oakland Athletics on June 7, 2015, at Fenway. (Steven Senne/AP)
Boston Red Sox's Clay Buchholz delivers a pitch against the Oakland Athletics on June 7, 2015, at Fenway. (Steven Senne/AP)

Rusney Castillo hit a solo homer and an RBI single during a seven-run rally in the eighth inning that sent the Boston Red Sox over the Oakland Athletics 7-4 Sunday for a three-game sweep.

Xander Bogaerts delivered a go-ahead, two-run double. The Red Sox got eight hits in the comeback before ambidextrous Pat Venditte, Oakland's fifth pitcher of the inning, got the last out.

Steven Wright (3-2) pitched 3 1-3 innings of shutout relief for the win. Tommy Layne threw a perfect ninth for his first save.

Kendall Graveman took a shutout into the eighth inning before Castillo led off with a homer. Bogaerts doubled off Tyler Clippard (0-3) and Castillo's single capped the scoring.

Kendall Graveman blanked Boston on five hits and took a 4-0 lead into the eighth. He was pulled after Castillo led off with a homer.

The Red Sox kept rallying on Hanley Ramirez's RBI single and David Ortiz's sacrifice fly. Bogaerts doubled off the Green Monster before Alejandro De Aza and Castillo added RBI singles.

Mark Canha and Josh Reddick each had three hits for Oakland.

Clay Buchholz allowed four runs and 10 hits - five doubles - in 4 2-3 innings.

The Athletics scored three times in the second. Canha had an RBI double, Reddick scored on a wild pitch and Eric Sogard added a run-scoring single.

The A's made it 4-0 in the fourth on Josh Phegley's RBI double before leaving the bases loaded.

Buchholz was coming off a solid stretch of four starts when he posted a 1.47 ERA despite going 1-2.

This article was originally published on June 07, 2015.

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