Nick Kurtaz continued his power show with a two-run homer and Jeffrey Springs played athletics 7/3 strong innings to lead athletics to win a 5–1 on Cleveland Guardians on Friday night in West Sacramento, California.
Lawrence Butler added three hits and one RBI and Jacob Wilson and Luis Urias for athletics, winning a run-scoring singles for the sixth time in the last eight matches.
Kurtaz has worked in five of the last six matches. He hit two-talk of blasts in a four-game series against Houston Astro and killed a winning homer in the ninth innings against hosts Cancer City Royals last Sunday.
Angel Martinez acted for The Guardian, who lost the 10th time in the last 14 matches. Cleveland is 2-5 on the Nine-Game Road Trip and scored only 14 runs during the tour.
Springs (6-5) gave three hits and departed after serving Solo Homer for Martinez. He hit six and one went away.
Michael Kelly allowed Steven Quan a double, while the last two outsider of the eighth and Mason Miller worked to walk in the ninth in a non-service position.
Cleveland’s Tanner Bibe (4-7) gave five runs (four earned) and 11 hits in an attempt to play his first career. He hit a season-hai 10 10 without permission to take a walk.
Brent Rooker stroked a two-out single in the first, before Kurtaz jumped on 0–1 ciners of Bibi and sent athletics 2–0 flying on the left-center fence to give a 2–0 lead. Kurtaz has nine homeers in his last 15 performances.
Two errors by Cleveland’s third baseman Jose Ramirez established A for the second innings.
Tyler Sodestrom started the frame with an informed hit before Urias arrived when Ramirez booted his grounder.
Austin Veen’s distributed and the ball stopped in a fair area on the left side of the plate. Catcher Austin Hedes rose to third place and the ball defeated Soderstrom but Ramirez was unable to find a base with his leg.
Later, Butler sang right to score sodersstrom.
Athletics worked on one run with two outs in the seventh. Danzel Clarke arrived at an informed hit and Butler chased with a single, before Wilson left a run-scoring single, which easily made Clarke 4–0.
After the explosion of Martinez at the top of the eighth, Athletics replied with two outsiders in the house frame as Soderstrom sang, stole the second and scored for the center on the single of Urus.
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