Sometimes you request a small spot of assistance to support a hitting streak going successful baseball.
Zack Gelof got that assistance from the prima connected Sunday to widen his career-high hitting streak to 18 games.
Gelof deed a fifth-inning pop-up to the shallow portion of the infield, and Colorado Rockies 2nd baseman Willi Castro had occupation uncovering the shot successful the sun.
As it dropped, Gelof raced to 2nd for a double. He added a azygous successful the seventh inning, but was thrown retired trying to spell to 2nd base.
Gelof extending his streak was 1 of the lone agleam spots successful the Athletics’ 23-9 nonaccomplishment to the Rockies connected Sunday astatine Las Vegas Ballpark. Gelof finished 2-for-4 with a tally scored.
“You don’t get guys with that constitution that conscionable say, ‘Yeah, let’s bash it,’” A’s manager Mark Kotsay said aft Saturday’s win. “There’s a batch of guys successful that country that person that makeup, and that civilization is starting to benignant of spread.”
Gelof has played each astir the infield and outfield for the A’s. On Saturday, Kotsay credited Gelof’s acceptance to playing antithetic positions
“He’s been solid,” Kotsay said. “This is simply a kid that went done a batch of adversity with the injury, and immoderate of the deficiency of success, but erstwhile he’s connected the field, there’s a assurance that we person successful him. I told him you mightiness play each 9 positions astatine immoderate constituent this year, that’s conscionable the jock and shot subordinate helium is.”
Gelof is hitting .276 with 9 location runs and 25 RBIs. The 26-year-old had his 2025 play ended successful September with a dislocated near shoulder.
Estes optioned, Basso recalled
One time aft making his 2026 MLB debut, the A’s announced aboriginal Sunday that right-handed pitcher Joey Estes was sent down to Triple-A Las Vegas and left-hander Brady Basso was recalled.
Estes, who dealt with a backmost wounded past year, pitched 4.1 innings Saturday against Colorado and gave up 4 runs connected 5 hits with 5 strikeouts connected 71 pitches.
He was pulled successful the 5th inning with 1 retired and the tying tally connected base, arsenic the Rockies took the pb successful the 5th earlier the A’s rallied for a 7-5 win.
“I emotion being (with the A’s),” Estes said postgame Saturday. “It’s wherever I privation to be. I felt bully retired there.”
Said Kotsay pregame Saturday: “(Estes) has been grinding successful Triple-A. He’s been 1 of the guys that’s been, from the injury, continuing to physique his spot and starting to get immoderate (velocity) back. We’ve seen that successful a mates outings successful Triple-A. This is simply a bully accidental for Joey to spell retired and commencement caller from an injury-plagued play past year.”
Basso came into Sunday’s crippled and tossed 1.2 innings. The Rockies tagged Basso for 4 runs successful the seventh inning arsenic the 28-year-old gave up six hits. Basso has 4 appearances for this A’s this season, with his erstwhile 1 connected May 1.
Out of challenges
Kotsay said earlier during the Las Vegas bid that helium is fine with his squad being aggressive with its 2 ABS strategy challenges.
On Sunday, the A’s and Rockies were assertive with their challenges, with six challenges successful the archetypal 2 innings. But it outgo the Rockies, who ran retired of challenges successful the bottommost of the 2nd inning.
Castro mislaid a situation connected the archetypal at-bat of the game. Then, successful the bottommost of the second, Rockies catcher Hunter Goodman enactment the squad retired of challenges erstwhile a called shot was confirmed by ABS.
The nonaccomplishment of challenges didn’t fuss the Rockies arsenic they deed six homers and finished with 24 hits successful a rout to bushed the A’s.
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