Brian Serven<\/a> was recalled to take Kurtz’s roster spot. The 31-year-old makes his second appearance of the 2026 season with the A’s. In 102 games over parts of four MLB seasons with the A’s, Colorado Rockies and Toronto Blue Jays, Serven is slashing .188\/247\/.292 with six homers and 20 RBI.<\/p>\nKurtz exited Wednesday’s game against the Detroit Tigers early due to an illness after appearing to sustain a hand injury. The 6-foot-5 infielder was just one of the handful of victims of a stomach bug maneuvering the A’s clubhouse.<\/p>\n
But this IL stint could go back to that hand injury he sustained Wednesday when he collided with Dillon Dingler near first base while attempting to field an errant throw from third baseman Zack Gelof.<\/p>\n
Kurtz, the reigning American League Rookie of the Year, recently was named an All-Star for the first time in his career and later announced as the starter for the AL side after Blue Jays star Vladimir Guerrero Jr. shared he wasn’t going to participate in this year\u2019s Midsummer Classic.<\/p>\n
Now Kurtz won’t be able to participate in the Midsummer Classic.<\/p>\n
Kurtz is batting .270 with 20 home runs and 66 RBI this season.<\/p>\n
The Athletics, who now have lost six in a row and 10 of their last 11, certainly will miss production from one of their best players.<\/p>\n
The good news is the All-Star break is right around the corner, and the A’s — like many other teams — certainly could use the extra days to rest and recover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Injuries continue to pile on the Athletics. All-Star first baseman Nick Kurtz was placed on the IL with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[537,5,4,3226,459],"class_list":["post-748999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-athletics","tag-nick-kurtz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116902051396631173","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748999","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=748999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}