{"id":703899,"date":"2026-05-20T10:42:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T10:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/703899\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T10:42:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T10:42:35","slug":"nick-kurtzs-5-rbis-hrs-by-zack-gelof-and-brent-rooker-lead-athletics-to-14-6-win-over-angels-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/703899\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Kurtz’s 5 RBIs, HRs by Zack Gelof and Brent Rooker lead Athletics to 14-6 win over Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Nick Kurtz<\/a> had three hits and five RBIs, Brent Rooker<\/a> and Zack Gelof<\/a> homered and drove in three runs apiece as the Athletics<\/a> beat the Los Angeles Angels<\/a> 14-6 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

The Athletics scored 12 of their runs with two outs.<\/p>\n

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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

Reliever Justin Sterner<\/a> (2-3) escaped a first-and-third, two-out jam in the fourth and earned the win for the AL West-leading A\u2019s, who snapped a three-game skid.<\/p>\n

Mike Trout<\/a> 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

Angels starter Reid Detmers<\/a> (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<\/a> and Darrell Hernaiz singled in the third.<\/p>\n

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Shea Langeliers<\/a> 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<\/a> 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

Trout led off the bottom of the third with his 43rd career homer against the A\u2019s. That tied him with Rafael Palmeiro and Alex Rodriguez<\/a> for the most since the A\u2019s moved to California in 1968. Trout also scored his 600th Angel Stadium run on the play, the most in franchise history.<\/p>\n

The Angels<\/a> pulled within 6-4 in the fourth on Trout\u2019s bases-loaded walk and Vaughn Grissom<\/a>\u2019s two-run single, which knocked A\u2019s starter Jacob Lopez<\/a> out of the game. But Sterner got Jorge Soler<\/a> to fly out, ending the inning.<\/p>\n

The A\u2019s, 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

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RHP Aaron Civale<\/a> (5-1, 2.70 ERA) will start for the Athletics against Angels RHP Jack Kochanowicz<\/a> on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

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AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Nick Kurtz had three hits and five RBIs, Brent Rooker and Zack Gelof homered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[2132,1691,291,537,5,545,28330,758,632,1332,3509,6616,56,603,4,3226,459,12421,3923,3442,1949,1229,3291],"class_list":["post-703899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-athletics","tag-aaron-civale","tag-alex-rodriguez","tag-angels","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-brent-rooker","tag-colby-thomas","tag-jack-kochanowicz","tag-jacob-lopez","tag-jeff-mcneil","tag-jorge-soler","tag-justin-sterner","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-mike-trout","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-athletics","tag-nick-kurtz","tag-rbis","tag-reid-detmers","tag-shea-langeliers","tag-the-athletics","tag-vaughn-grissom","tag-zack-gelof"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116606490588560431","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703899","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=703899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}