Nick Kurtz of the Athletics turned the primary rookie in MLB historical past to hit 4 residence runs in a recreation, going deep within the second, sixth, eighth and ninth innings at Houston on Friday night time.
Kurtz additionally singled and doubled for 19 complete bases on a 6-for-6 night time, turning into the second participant to have 4 homers and 6 hits in a recreation. The opposite was Shawn Inexperienced for the Los Angeles Dodgers on Could 23, 2002 at Milwaukee. Kurtz drove in eight runs and scored six because the Athletics beat the Astros, 15-3.
The 6-foot-5, 23-year-old slugger has 23 homers in 66 video games this season. The fourth general choose in final yr’s newbie draft out of Wake Forest, he made his main league debut on April 23 and hit his first homer on Could 13.
On Friday, Kurtz homered off every of the Astros’ 4 pitchers: Ryan Gusto, Nick Hernandez, Kaleb Ort and Cooper Hummel. His longest drive was his third, a 414-foot solo shot off Ort within the eighth.
For his fourth homer, he hit an opposite-field line drive towards Hummel to the Crawford containers in left discipline. The three-run shot made it 15-2.
Reporting by The Related Press.
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