WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Tyler Soderstrom opened Thursday night’s game with a long home run and closed it with a one-out RBI single to give the Athletics a 5-4 11-inning victory over the Atlanta Braves.<\/p>\n
Soderstrom went 3 for 5 with four RBIs, his winning hit plating automatic runner Brent Rooker.<\/p>\n
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The Braves have lost 11 of 14 games and haven’t won a series since they swept the New York Mets in a three-game homestand June 17-19. Atlanta has since lost five series since then and split one with the Mets.<\/p>\n
Soderstrom’ 445-foot three-run homer to right field in the first inning gave the A’s a 3-0 lead.<\/p>\n
JP Sears, making his 100th career appearance, retired the first 11 Braves batters he faced, five by strikeouts. Back-to-back doubles by Austin Riley and Sean Murphy put the Braves on the scoreboard with two outs in the fourth to end Sears’ streak of 15 1\/3 scoreless innings, which was the second-longest active one to Detroit’s Tarik Skubal (18).<\/p>\n
Jurickson Profar then erased the deficit with a two-run homer to left field.<\/p>\n
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Ozzie Albies of the Braves and the A’s Nick Kurtz exchanged homers to send the game into extra innings.<\/p>\n
The temperature at first pitch was 99 degrees (37 Celsius), the highest for an A\u2019s home game since that measurement was tracked daily in 1991. The highest-recorded temperature for an Athletics home game occurred July 27, 1956 when the then-Kansas City A\u2019s hosted the New York Yankees in 101-degree heat.<\/p>\n
Key moment<\/p>\n
Five A’s relievers combined to allow one hit and one run over six innings.<\/p>\n
Key stat<\/p>\n
A’s closer Mason Miller struck out Sean Murphy on a pitch in the ninth inning clocked at 104.1 mph<\/a>. He threw five pitches that were all at least 102.4 mph.<\/p>\n Up next<\/p>\n Toronto Blue Jays RHP Max Scherzer (0-0, 4.77 ERA) faces A’s RHP Luis Severino (2-10, 5.30) as the teams open a three-game series.<\/p>\n __<\/p>\n