Monday’s results

Athletics 9, Red Sox 0: At Oakland, Frank Thomas hit his 476th home run, Nick Swisher connected three batters later and Esteban Loaiza completed a perfect August by winning his fourth straight decision to lead the Athletics past beat-up Boston. Pinch-hitter Adam Melhuse hit a two-run homer in the eighth, and Bobby Kielty and Jay Payton each drove in two runs for the A.L. West-leading A’s, who increased their division lead to 6 1/2 games over Los Angeles after the Angels lost 2-0 at Seattle. Thomas hit his 28th homer of the year leading off the seventh against Keith Foulke, moving past Willie Stargell and Stan Musial for 23rd on the career list.

Indians 6, Blue Jays 4: At Cleveland, Grady Sizemore homered, doubled twice and scored three runs to help Paul Byrd bounce back from a brutal outing, lifting the Indians over Toronto. The perpetually hustling Sizemore, who in his second full season has emerged as one of the A.L.’s best all-around players, leads the league with 75 extra-base hits, two more than Boston’s David Ortiz. Ryan Garko added a pair of RBI doubles off A.J. Burnett as Cleveland improved to a major league-best 14-5 since Aug. 9. Reed Johnson had three hits for the Blue Jays.