WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Brent Rooker homered twice and had a career-high six RBIs, including a three-run shot in the bottom of the 10th inning that gave the Athletics a 12-10 victory over the Houston Astros on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Tyler Soderstrom hit a bases-loaded triple and scored three times for the Athletics, who rebounded from an 11-0 defeat Saturday and took two of three games from Houston for their first series win this season.<\/p>\n
Shaking off a cold start at the plate, Rooker launched his first homer of the year in the seventh. The two-run shot snapped a 5-all tie and sparked a four-run inning. It was his 100th homer with the A\u2019s, who finished with 16 hits.<\/p>\n
Houston pulled even with four runs in the eighth. Jake Meyers homered, Jose Altuve had an RBI double and Cam Smith tied it at 9 with a two-run single.<\/p>\n
Carlos Correa gave the Astros a 10-9 lead with an RBI single in the 10th before Rooker connected against Bryan Abreu (0-1).<\/p>\n
Yordan Alvarez and Christian Walker each had a two-run homer for Houston.<\/p>\n
Elvis Alvarado (1-0) got two outs for the win. Athletics starter Jacob Lopez struck out six in 4 1\/3 innings. He allowed three hits, three runs and five walks.<\/p>\n
Lance McCullers Jr. gave up three runs and five hits in four innings for the Astros.<\/p>\n
The Astros continue their 10-game trip Monday at Colorado, where Rockies RHP Ryan Feltner (0-0, 0.00 ERA) gets the ball. Houston had not announced a scheduled starter to replace RHP Hunter Brown (1-0, 0.84), who was placed on the 15-day injured list with a right shoulder strain.<\/p>\n
The Athletics have an off day Monday before facing the Yankees in the Bronx on Tuesday night. RHP Aaron Civale (1-0, 3.60 ERA) pitches against New York RHP Cam Schlittler (2-0, 0.00).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Brent Rooker homered twice and had a career-high six RBIs, including a three-run…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2389],"tags":[2132,42,84764,5,545,7618,20455,451,3225,100,7634,139,54,3211,1328,632,452,817,5175,4,9500,9501,9496,9497,39138,9499,544,2264],"class_list":{"0":"post-665651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-astros","8":"tag-aaron-civale","9":"tag-astros","10":"tag-astros-athletics-score-rooker","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-brent-rooker","13":"tag-bryan-abreu","14":"tag-cam-schlittler","15":"tag-cam-smith","16":"tag-carlos-correa","17":"tag-christian-walker","18":"tag-elvis-alvarado","19":"tag-houston","20":"tag-houston-astros","21":"tag-houstonastros","22":"tag-hunter-brown","23":"tag-jacob-lopez","24":"tag-jake-meyers","25":"tag-jose-altuve","26":"tag-lance-mccullers","27":"tag-mlb","28":"tag-package-100024-ap-online","29":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","30":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","31":"tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","32":"tag-product-40776-ap-california-sports-only","33":"tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","34":"tag-tyler-soderstrom","35":"tag-yordan-alvarez"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665651","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=665651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}