{"id":666423,"date":"2026-04-06T13:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/666423\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T13:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:31:11","slug":"brent-rookers-first-homer-of-2026-mlb-season-gives-athletics-lead-over-astros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/666423\/","title":{"rendered":"Brent Rooker&#8217;s first homer of 2026 MLB season gives Athletics lead over Astros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Athletics designated hitter Brent Rooker hits a two-run homer against the Houston Astros on Sunday at Sutter Health Park.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:Brent Rooker&#039;s first homer of 2026 MLB season gives Athletics lead over Astros;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/video\/mlb\/athletics\/brent-rooker-highlight-watch\/1928823\/?partner=yahoo&amp;cid=yahoo\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Brent Rooker&#8217;s first homer of 2026 MLB season gives Athletics lead over Astros<\/a> originally appeared on <a data-ylk=\"slk:NBC Sports Bay Area;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/?cid=yahoo\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">NBC Sports Bay Area<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"caas-show-transcript\">View More<\/p>\n<p>Video Transcript<\/p>\n<p>But as Soderstrom takes a lead off of first, 2-0 pitch.<\/p>\n<p>But as Soderstrom takes a lead off of first, 2-0 pitch.<\/p>\n<p>Rooker drives it to left.<\/p>\n<p>Rooker drives it to left.<\/p>\n<p>Loperfido on the run.<\/p>\n<p>Loperfido on the run.<\/p>\n<p>It is gone.<\/p>\n<p>It is gone.<\/p>\n<p>It is gone.<\/p>\n<p>It is gone.<\/p>\n<p>Rooker homers for the first time this year, and the A&#8217;s take their lead right back.<\/p>\n<p>Rooker homers for the first time this year, and the A&#8217;s take their lead right back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caas-hide-transcript\">Close<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Athletics designated hitter Brent Rooker hits a two-run homer against the Houston Astros on Sunday at Sutter Health&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[537,5,545,3652,54,4,3226],"class_list":{"0":"post-666423","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-brent-rooker","11":"tag-homer","12":"tag-houston-astros","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-mlb-athletics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116358012278188300","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666423","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=666423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}