WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Nick Kurtz deed 2 homers and drove successful 5 runs, Jeff McNeil besides went heavy and knocked successful four, and the Athletics bushed the scuffling Pittsburgh Pirates 11-2 connected Monday night.
J.T. Ginn pitched six beardown innings for the A’s, who returned to their regular impermanent location successful California after going 4-2 connected a homestand astatine their Triple-A affiliate successful Las Vegas, wherever the large league nine plans to determination into a caller stadium successful 2028.
McNeil went 3 for 4 and snapped an 0-for-20 slump with an RBI azygous successful the second. Kurtz followed with an opposite-field homer to near for a 3-0 pb and finished 3 for 5.
McNeil deed his 3rd homer to marque it 5-1 successful the 4th and added an RBI azygous successful the seventh earlier Kurtz followed with a three-run changeable to left. Eight of Kurtz’s 18 location runs person travel successful June.
Lawrence Butler sparked the five-run seventh with an RBI treble aft Zack Gelof reached connected a two-out mistake by 2nd baseman Brandon Lowe.
Ginn (5-3) allowed conscionable an unearned tally and six hits with 2 walks, throwing 98 pitches.
Kurtz had the archetypal of 3 consecutive singles to load the bases successful the archetypal earlier Jared Jones (1-1) came backmost to onslaught retired the side. Henry Bolte deed a one-out treble earlier McNeil drove him successful during a three-run second.
Jones permitted 5 runs and 8 hits implicit 4 innings successful his 4th commencement this season.
Tyler Soderstrom singled successful beforehand of Jacob Wilson’s ground-rule treble to statesman the 5th against Pirates reliever Carmen Mlodzinski. Gelof upped the majors’ longest existent hitting streak to 19 games with an RBI azygous for a 6-1 lead.
Jake Mangum had an RBI azygous successful the 4th for the Pirates, and Endy Rodríguez went 3 for 3 with a solo homer successful the eighth.
The Athletics (36-36) moved wrong a half-game of the first-place Mariners successful the AL West.
Pittsburgh (36-37) has mislaid 8 of 10. The Pirates are 9-19 all-time against the A’s.
Up next
Pirates RHP Mitch Keller (5-4, 5.14 ERA) starts Tuesday other Athletics RHP Jack Perkins (2-3, 6.25).
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