By Kahlil Najar

BOSTON – The A’s may have lost to the Red Sox 4-2 today however they were able to come away with a spectacular outing from switch pitcher phenomenon Pat Venditte. Venditte was called up from Triple-A today as the A’s sent down Dan Otero to work on his command. Pitching Coach Curt Young said, “He’ll go down, work hard, get himself right, and he’ll be back.”

Venditte lasted two innings and gave up one hit and was able to sit down one batter.

On his debut, Venditte said “You play it 1,000 times in your head how it’s going to happen. I don’t really remember a whole lot, just a lot of emotions and being able to tell my family and friends that the work was starting to pay off.”

“To show his composure like that and pitch the way he did and get two innings for us, it was terrific,” said Melvin on Venditte’s performance.

Unfortunately for Oakland wins aren’t awarded for middle relievers.

The A’s continued their nasty habit of errors and today had more errors than they did runs. Zobrist, Reddick and Lawrie committed the A’s blunders today. Additionally, Scott Kazmir didn’t have his best day as he earned his fourth loss and gave up nine hits and four runs in 4 2/3 innings. Kazmir gave up three doubles with each of them contributing to a run on the day.

“I just have to be better out there,” said Kazmir. “And I will be next time.”

The A’s were able to score in the top of the fifth when they were able to smack three singles and score Brett Lawrie who got the first hit of the inning. The other Oakland run came in the seventh when Lawrie hit his fifth homer of the year.

Lawrie was also involved a horrific accident early in the game when he smacked a pitch to second that broke his bat the barrel of the bat launched into the crowd and critically hurt a woman who was there with her family. The woman was taken away in a stretch and we are still waiting on word from Boston Police to see how she is doing. Prayers go out to her and her family from the entire Sports Radio Service family.

Boston and Oakland head back at it tomorrow when the A’s send Jesse Chavez against Boston’s Joe Kelly.