Oakland 6, Boston 4

Some nights you're the windshield, some nights you're the bug.

In the 4th inning, they loaded the bases with no outs and failed to score.

In the 7th inning, after tying the game, they had runners at 2nd and 3rd with no outs and failed to score.

In the 9th inning, they got the tying runs to 2nd and 3rd and failed to score.

On the night, they had 5 at-bats with runners at 2nd and 3rd with less than 2 out, a situation where you can score a run with a fly ball or a ground-out. 4 of them resulted in strikeouts.

Oakland's first 3 runs scored on a bases-loaded triple, a fly ball that a two-legged Trot Nixon catches. Unfortunately, only the one-legged one was out there.

One of the base runners reached on a fly ball that Johnny Damon turned the wrong way on - twice - before it fell for a double. One of the others reached when he turned his knee into a pitch that was just off the plate.

The winning runs were set up by an infield single, a broken bat ball that wasn't hit hard enough to reach the pitcher's mound.

Losing 3 of 4 is never fun, and they don't look good right now. The long-term implications of this streak? None. They've lost 3-of-4. It happens. (It'll happen again later, I'd bet...)