Max Muncy's Fenway Double Finished a Two-Day Turnaround
The Athletics opened the weekend with a 13-1 thud. They left Fenway with two wins after Jonah Heim tied the finale and Muncy sent the deciding ball to center.
The ball went to center. Donovan Walton came home. Max Muncy reached second, and a weekend that had begun as a 13-1 scolding suddenly belonged to the Athletics. On August 9, 2026, Muncy's ninth-inning double supplied the final run in a 4-3 win over the Red Sox at Fenway Park. Short swing, long repair job.
The MLB Gameday page confirms the final score. The detailed postgame scoring table records the late sequence: Jonah Heim doubled home Jeff McNeil in the eighth to tie it 3-3, then Muncy doubled home Walton in the ninth for the lead. No grand slam was required. Two doubles, placed one inning apart, did the work.
The Fenway turn
- August 7
- Red Sox 13, Athletics 1
- August 8
- Athletics 7, Red Sox 3
- August 9
- Athletics 4, Red Sox 3
- Finale's deciding hit
- Max Muncy's ninth-inning RBI double
Friday's score did not travel
Boston won the August 7 opener 13-1, a result preserved in the postgame line score and its MLB highlights. That kind of score can make a three-game series feel settled after one night. Baseball's quiet mercy is that none of the extra runs roll over. Saturday still began 0-0.
The visitors used the reset. theScore's August 8 line shows a 7-3 win with the Athletics scoring in five of the final six innings, including the ninth. StatMuse's box score credits Gage Jump with the win and Hogan Harris with the save. The same club that had produced one run on Friday kept leaving small parcels everywhere on Saturday.
Sunday asked for patience
The finale moved differently. Oakland led 1-0, then 2-1. Boston took a 3-2 lead in the fifth. The score stayed there through the seventh, which left the visiting team six outs and very little room for decoration. Heim used one of them to line his double to left. McNeil scored. Tie game.
An inning later, Walton was aboard for Muncy. Muncy drove a fly ball to center, Walton scored, and the lead changed for the last time. The StatMuse game record lists nine Athletics hits and six for Boston. The postgame play-by-play supplies the more vivid truth: the two hits everyone needed to remember were doubles by Heim and Muncy.
A series win with a sense of humor
Muncy had not started the August 8 game as the offensive star; the box score shows him without a hit. On August 9, the game waited until his final trip to give him the best line. That is a tidy little baseball joke. Saturday's empty column had no veto over Sunday afternoon.
Friday was not erased. It became the first act of a much better story, then the Athletics finished the job with the least complicated image in the sport: runner moving, ball dropping, dugout waking up. Muncy already owns baseball's funniest duplicate name. At Fenway, he added a hit that needed no explanation.
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