HOUSTON — Nick Kurtz and Brent Rooker homered, Gage Jump worked 6 1/3 scoreless innings and the Athletics bushed the Houston Astros 5-0 connected Sunday to debar a bid sweep.
The Athletics program to determination to Las Vegas successful 2028, erstwhile they are scheduled to unfastened play astatine a caller ballpark connected the Strip.
Kurtz opened the scoring successful the 3rd with his 12th location tally of the twelvemonth — a 389-foot enactment thrust to right-center that scored Alika Williams for a 2-0 lead. Later successful the inning, Brent Rooker added an RBI treble that scored Shea Langeliers and gave the Athletics a 3-0 lead.
Zack Gelof scored connected a fielding mistake by shortstop Jeremy Peña successful the 4th inning and Rooker’s 397-foot solo changeable to near tract capped the scoring successful the fifth.
Jump (2-1) allowed 3 hits and 3 walks with 3 strikeouts. The 23-year-old left-hander has allowed conscionable 1 tally successful his past 13 1/3 innings pitched.
Houston’s Mike Burrows (3-8) allowed each 5 runs connected 8 hits successful 5 innings. Burrows has fixed up 17 location runs successful 13 starts this season, with 11 coming connected his four-seam fastball. He has a 5.77 ERA successful 73 1/3 innings.
The Astros were constricted to 4 hits successful their 5th shutout nonaccomplishment of the season.
Houston 2nd baseman Nick Allen near the crippled successful the 3rd inning with near hamstring discomfort aft moving to archetypal base. Taylor Trammell took implicit arsenic a pinch-runner.
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