CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Nick Kurtz singled in automatic runner Alika Williams in the 10th inning, and the Athletics rallied for a second straight win, 5-4 over the sliding Chicago Cubs on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Kurtz extended his hitting streak to five games with his hit in the 10th off Ethan Roberts (0-1), Chicago’s sixth reliever.<\/p>\n
The Cubs (32-30) squandered a two-run lead in the eighth inning and lost their third straight and for the 18th time in 23 games.<\/p>\n
Pinch-hitter Colby Thomas hit a 426-foot solo homer over the left-field bleachers in the eighth, and Tyler Soderstrom drove in his second run of the game with his second single as the Athletics tied it 4-all, with both runs coming off reliever Caleb Thielbar.<\/p>\n
Chicago’s Pete Crow-Armstrong and Seiya Suzuki homered, and Ian Happ had two doubles, including the 1,000th hit of his career.<\/p>\n
Happ became the 37th Cubs player to each 1,000 hits \u2014 and the second Chicago switch-hitter to accomplish the feat \u2014 with a double to right in the fourth. The four-time Gold Glove left fielder reached the milestone batting right-handed against A’s lefty Jeffrey Springs. He doubled again in the eighth.<\/p>\n
Crow-Armstrong extended his hitting streak to eight games with a two-run drive, his eighth, in the third. Michael Busch tripled in a run.<\/p>\n
Hogan Harris (3-0) the Athletics’ fifth reliever, pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for the win. Justin Sterner retired all three Cubs hitters in the 10th for his first save.<\/p>\n
Soderstrom extended his hitting streak to a season-high nine games and is 14-for-32 (.438) during the stretch. Williams had an RBI.<\/p>\n
Cubs starter Colin Rea allowed two runs on four hits in 5 1\/3 innings. Springs allowed four runs on seven hits in 3 2\/3 innings, but avoided a seventh straight loss when the A’s rallied.<\/p>\n
The Athletics jumped ahead 1-0 in the first, then led 2-0 in the second. Suzuki\u2019s drive to left in the bottom half cut it to 2-1.<\/p>\n
Athletics RHP J.T. Ginn (3-3, 2.87 ERA) is scheduled to face Cubs LHP Shota Imanaga (4-6, 4.37) in Thursdays’ series finale<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Nick Kurtz singled in automatic runner Alika Williams in the 10th inning, and the Athletics…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[23605,5,7581,138,24,4245,158,161,89746,881,4813,36,3239,6616,37,4,459,9500,9501,35,9496,9497,39138,15187,105,544],"class_list":["post-716810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-cubs","tag-alika-williams","tag-baseball","tag-caleb-thielbar","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-chicagocubs","tag-colin-rea","tag-cubs","tag-cubs-athletics-score","tag-ethan-roberts","tag-hogan-harris","tag-ian-happ","tag-jeffrey-springs","tag-justin-sterner","tag-michael-busch","tag-mlb","tag-nick-kurtz","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-pete-crow-armstrong","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40776-ap-california-sports-only","tag-product-40784-ap-illinois-sports-only","tag-seiya-suzuki","tag-tyler-soderstrom"],"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\/716810","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=716810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}