{"id":703775,"date":"2026-05-20T06:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T06:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/703775\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T06:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T06:45:13","slug":"nick-kurtzs-5-rbis-hrs-by-zack-gelof-and-brent-rooker-lead-athletics-to-14-6-win-over-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/703775\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Kurtz&#8217;s 5 RBIs, HRs by Zack Gelof and Brent Rooker lead Athletics to 14-6 win over Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Kurtz had three hits and five RBIs, Brent Rooker and Zack Gelof homered and drove in three runs apiece as the Athletics beat the Los Angeles Angels 14-6 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Athletics scored 12 of their runs with two outs.<\/p>\n<p>Kurtz, the reigning American League Rookie of the Year, sparked a six-run third inning with an RBI single, keyed a two-run sixth with a two-run single and added a two-run double in a four-run eighth.<\/p>\n<p>Reliever Justin Sterner (2-3) escaped a first-and-third, two-out jam in the fourth and earned the win for the AL West-leading A&#8217;s, who snapped a three-game skid. <\/p>\n<p>Mike Trout hit his 12th homer of the season, a solo shot, and finished with two RBIs for the last-place Angels, who have lost 22 of 28 games since an 11-10 start.<\/p>\n<p>Angels starter Reid Detmers (1-5) was tagged for eight runs and eight hits in 5 2\/3 innings. The left-hander retired seven straight batters to open the game, five by strikeout, before Jeff McNeil and Darrell Hernaiz singled in the third.<\/p>\n<p>Shea Langeliers flied out before Kurtz punched an RBI single to center to extend his on-base streak 42 games, the sixth-longest in franchise history. Colby Thomas followed with a two-run double, Rooker added an RBI single, Henry Bolte hit a ground-rule double, and Gelof had a two-run single for a 6-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Trout led off the bottom of the third with his 43rd career homer against the A&#8217;s. That tied him with Rafael Palmeiro and Alex Rodriguez for the most since the A&#8217;s moved to California in 1968. Trout also scored his 600th Angel Stadium run on the play, the most in franchise history.<\/p>\n<p>The Angels pulled within 6-4 in the fourth on Trout&#8217;s bases-loaded walk and Vaughn Grissom&#8217;s two-run single, which knocked A&#8217;s starter Jacob Lopez out of the game. But Sterner got Jorge Soler to fly out, ending the inning.<\/p>\n<p>The A&#8217;s, who pounded out 15 hits, pulled away with eight runs over the final four innings, with Kurtz driving in four, Gelof hitting a solo homer in the seventh and Rooker a two-run shot in the eighth.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>RHP Aaron Civale (5-1, 2.70 ERA) will start for the Athletics against Angels RHP Jack Kochanowicz on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Kurtz had three hits and five RBIs, Brent Rooker and Zack Gelof homered and drove in three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2390],"tags":[1691,291,537,5,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,19,4,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-703775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-angels","8":"tag-alex-rodriguez","9":"tag-angels","10":"tag-athletics","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-la-angels","14":"tag-laangels","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-los-angeles-angels","17":"tag-losangeles","18":"tag-losangelesangels","19":"tag-major-league-baseball","20":"tag-mlb","21":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116605558717625735","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703775","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=703775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}