{"id":648128,"date":"2026-03-28T06:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T06:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/648128\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T06:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T06:02:19","slug":"shea-langeliers-hits-two-homers-in-athletics-loss-to-blue-jays-nbc-sports-bay-area-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/648128\/","title":{"rendered":"Shea Langeliers hits two homers in Athletics\u2019 loss to Blue Jays \u2013 NBC Sports Bay Area & California"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shea Langeliers<\/a> was locked in against the defending American League champions on Opening Day<\/a> of the Athletics\u2019 2026 MLB season.<\/p>\n

But unfortunately for the Green and Gold, the 28-year-old catcher was a one-man show on offense during Friday night\u2019s 3-2 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays at Rogers Centre, which ended on a walk-off hit from second baseman Andr\u00e9s Gim\u00e9nez<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As the lone Athletic to register a hit, Langeliers collected three with two home runs in a valiant 3-for-4 effort north of the border.<\/p>\n

Langeliers attributed Friday\u2019s performance to his self-belief.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel great at the plate,\u201d Langeliers told reporters postgame. \u201cConfident in my approach [and] myself. And just looking to be consistent throughout this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

After posting a .444 OBP and 1.336 OPS with 16 hits, 13 RBI and seven go-balls over 19 spring training games, Langeliers evidently was ready to roll, recording a seventh-career multi-homer game to start his fifth big-league season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That feat stands extra admirable when considering that one of the long balls came against Blue Jays right-handed ace Kevin Gausman<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gausman essentially was perfect — collecting a Toronto Opening Day record 11 strikeouts while allowing just one hit through six frames — against the Athletics, outside of Langeliers.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s one of the best in the game for a reason,\u201d Langeliers said of Gausman. \u201cHe really had his stuff tonight. His splitter was — it was nasty; looked like a strike the whole way, until it wasn\u2019t. That\u2019s kind of when you adjust on the fly.<\/p>\n

\u201cThankfully, I was able to get into a hitter\u2019s count and get to him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Langeliers, who slashed .277\/.325\/.536 in 2025, seems ready for Saturday\u2019s rematch and the rest of what should be a competitive campaign.<\/p>\n

His teammates, though, must step up.<\/p>\n

The Athletics and their lineup of big bats<\/a> fumbled a chance to stun last season\u2019s runner-ups behind a dynamic opener from right-handed ace Luis Severino.<\/p>\n

Severino didn\u2019t allow a hit through three innings to start his 11th MLB season and maybe would\u2019ve exited in better shape after five frames if not for some miscommunication in the Green and Gold\u2019s outfield.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel pretty good,\u201d Severino told reporters postgame. \u201cEarly, I was hitting the glove, throwing a lot of strikes. Had a couple of jams out there, but made good pitches.\u201d<\/p>\n

Langeliers thought Severino was solid, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought Sevy looked great,\u201d Langeliers said. \u201cObviously, the miscue — kind of some bad luck tonight. But I mean, that\u2019s a really good offensive team over there.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were really close to winning the World Series last year. That\u2019s one of the best teams in baseball. We went out there, we competed, and sometimes you just chop it up to, \u2018That\u2019s just baseball,\u2019 you know? Things happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

Langeliers and Severino did their respective jobs on Friday.<\/p>\n

Baseball is a team game, though, and the aforementioned pair could use some help moving forward.<\/p>\n

Fortunately for the A’s, there are 161 games left to get on track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shea Langeliers was locked in against the defending American League champions on Opening Day of the Athletics\u2019 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[537,5,1327,4,3226,3442],"class_list":{"0":"post-648128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-athletics","8":"tag-athletics","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-luis-severino","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-mlb-athletics","13":"tag-shea-langeliers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116305287596368312","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}