The Athletics got into the win column for the first time this season Tuesday night, as they knocked off the Atlanta Braves 5-2 at Truist Park.

“It feels good to get the first one,” A’s catcher Shea Langeliers told NBC Sports California’s Chris Caray and Dallas Braden on “A’s Cast” after the win. “We haven’t been playing bad baseball up to this point, so it’s just kind of a matter of when we were going to break through, and now we go.”

The A’s fell behind 1-0 in the bottom of the first after a Drake Baldwin solo shot, but Andy Ibáñez answered with an RBI single in the second inning. Jacob Wilson gave the A’s the lead later that inning with a ground-rule double that scored two.

However, the biggest hit of the game came from Langeliers in the fifth inning, as he blasted a 404-foot bomb into the second deck in left field.

For Langeliers, the homer gave him his fourth in five games, tying him with Cleveland Guardians outfielder Chase DeLauter for the MLB lead. The cherry on top of the monster hit was the fact that the Braves actually selected him with the No. 9 overall pick in the 2019 MLB Draft, but he was traded to the A’s as part of the Matt Olson deal.

It also helped him make a bit of franchise history, per MLB’s Sarah Langs.

Shea Langeliers’ 4 home runs tie 1932 Jimmie Foxx for the most by an A’s player in the team’s first 5 games of a season https://t.co/1rW3linkjx

— Sarah Langs (@SlangsOnSports) April 1, 2026

As the team’s backstop, Langeliers also took time to praise the five pitchers the A’s used in the win.

“Simply put, tonight we were just executing pitches,” Langeliers told Caray and Braden. “We did a great job attacking the strike zone, getting ahead and making quality pitches when we were ahead in the count.”

Starting pitcher Aaron Civale was able to overcome the Braves’ loud start, tossing five innings, giving up four hits, allowing two earned runs and striking out four. The three middle relievers, Hogan Harris, Justin Sterner and Scott Barlow, who each pitched an inning, didn’t give up a single hit in their time on the bump, walking three combined.

Mark Leiter Jr. picked up the save, escaping a ninth frame that saw three-time Silver Slugger award winner Ronald Acuña Jr. come up with a chance to tie the game.

With the A’s in a position to win the series now, manager Mark Kotsay expressed how nice it was to get the first win out of the way.

“With the start we had, coming here to Atlanta, getting a win is a good feeling,” Kotsay told reporters after the game. “We got another game tomorrow, which you enjoy it for a little while and you turn the page and you got to compete again tomorrow.”

Kotsay also raved about Langeliers’ performance, as he looks to be one of the hottest hitters in the league.

“For Shea, he had a really great spring swinging the bat and he’s continued that (trajectory) right now with just taking really good ABs,” Kotsay said. “I mentioned he was the catalyst of the offense in Toronto, and it’s just nice to see him pick us up again.”

The A’s will have a chance to stay hot on Wednesday as they face the Braves at 9:15 a.m. PT. It’ll be a duel between two of the better pitchers in the league, as Luis Severino will get the start for the A’s, while the Braves will turn to Chris Sale.