Red Sox Extend A’s Streak to Nine

Mo Vaughn, Nomar Garciaparra and Scott Hatteberg homered Wednesday night as the Boston Red Sox handed the Oakland Athletics their ninth consecutive loss, 10-2.

The losing streak is the longest for Oakland since the team lost its last nine games of the 1995 season. Boston is 7-0 against the A’s this season.

Garciaparra went three for five with two RBIs and Vaughn was two for five with two RBIs for the Red Sox, who had 15 hits.

John Wasdin (5-3) gave up two runs and five hits over the first three innings before settling down to hold the A’s scoreless on three hits over the next three innings. Derek Lowe pitched the final three innings.

After trailing 2-0 in the fourth, the Red Sox tied the score against Mike Oquist (6-8) on Vaughn’s 26th home run and an RBI single by Mike Benjamin. Vaughn’s home run ball bounced out of a leaping Rickey Henderson’s glove and off a TV camera perched just over the left field fence.

Garciaparra led off the sixth inning with his 20th home run for a 3-2 lead. Oquist got two more outs before walking Benjamin and giving up a two-run homer to Hatteberg.

Oquist left after yielding a single to Keith Mitchell, who stole second and scored when Darren Lewis singled off Tim Worrell, giving Boston a 6-2 lead.

Vaughn added an RBI double, Garciaparra had an RBI single, Troy O’Leary had an RBI triple and Darren Bragg had a run-scoring single in the ninth off Mike Mohler.