By Steve Kroner
Associated Press
June 25, 2026 - 4:28 pm
SAN FRANCISCO — Jonah Heim’s RBI azygous tied the game, Lawrence Butler followed with a go-ahead RBI deed and the Athletics scored 4 times with 2 retired successful the ninth inning Thursday, rallying for a 9-6 triumph implicit the San Francisco Giants.
Henry Bolte opened the ninth with an infield azygous disconnected Caleb Kilian (2-4). After Bolte precocious to 2nd connected a chaotic pitch, Kilian got 2 outs earlier walking Tyler Soderstrom. Heim past singled down the left-field enactment to people Bolte and necktie the crippled astatine 6.
Butler enactment the Athletics up with a azygous to close that scored Soderstrom. After Butler stole second, Max Muncy’s bloop azygous to near scored 2 much runs and gave the Athletics a three-run lead.
The A’s had led 2-1 successful the sixth earlier Jung Hoo Lee deed a go-ahead, three-run triple with 2 outs and Victor Bericoto followed with a two-run homer, his third, to enactment San Francisco up 6-2.
Bericoto had deed a game-ending solo homer successful the Giants’ 2-1 triumph Wednesday night.
In Thursday’s bid finale, the Athletics got a two-run azygous from Shea Langeliers successful the seventh and an RBI azygous from Jeff McNeil successful the eighth to acceptable up their comeback successful the ninth. McNeil had 3 of the Athletics’ 15 hits.
Geoff Hartlieb (1-0) threw 2 scoreless innings for his 2nd vocation victory. Mason Barnett worked a cleanable ninth and picked up his 2nd save.
San Francisco starter Landen Roupp held the Athletics to 2 runs connected six hits successful six innings. He struck retired six and walked one. The Giants person mislaid each of Roupp’s past 10 starts.
Up next
Athletics RHP J.T. Ginn (5-4, 3.16 ERA) faces the Angels and RHP Walbert Ureña (5-5, 2.41) successful Anaheim connected Friday night.
Gelof connected DL
The Athletics placed infielder Zack Gelof connected the 10-day injured database due to the fact that of a contusion connected his close hand.
The squad announced the placement was retroactive to Wednesday and Alika Williams was recalled from the Triple-A Aviators to instrumentality his spot.
Gelof, whose lengthy hitting, on-base and runs-scored streaks ended aft helium suffered the injury, was inadvertently spiked by San Francisco’s Matt Chapman successful the 2nd inning Tuesday nighttime arsenic Gelof attempted to tag him out.
Gelof rapidly near the tract successful evident pain. He flied to close arsenic the game’s leadoff hitter successful his lone at-bat of the 3-1 nonaccomplishment to the Giants.
Gelof had a hitting streak of 24 games (tied for seventh longest successful franchise history), an on-base streak of 27 games and a runs-scored streak of 13 games (the 4th longest successful franchise past and longest successful 93 years). Gelof is batting .282 with 11 location runs this season.
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