{"id":141928,"date":"2025-09-14T06:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T06:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/141928\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T06:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T06:06:11","slug":"kurtz-hits-493-foot-grand-slam-longest-mlb-homer-this-season-as-athletics-beat-reds-11-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/141928\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurtz hits 493-foot grand slam, longest MLB homer this season, as Athletics beat Reds 11-5"},"content":{"rendered":"

WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Nick Kurtz launched a 493-foot grand slam \u2014 the longest home run in the majors this season \u2014 and the Athletics hammered Hunter Greene early in an 11-5 victory Saturday night over the Cincinnati Reds.<\/p>\n

Brent Rooker also went deep and rookie Carlos Cortes hit a two-run shot for his third homer in two games as the Athletics handed Cincinnati another costly loss. Jacob Wilson provided a pair of RBI doubles.<\/p>\n

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Greene, an All-Star last year, was tagged for five runs, four hits and four walks over 2 1\/3 ineffective innings, raising his ERA from 2.59 to 3.01.<\/p>\n

With a chance to gain ground in a crowded wild-card race, the Reds (74-74) lost their second consecutive game to the Athletics (69-80) and remained 1 1\/2 games behind the skidding New York Mets for the final National League playoff spot.<\/p>\n

San Francisco is a half-game back of the Mets.<\/p>\n

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AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n

Charlie Pappalardo, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Nick Kurtz launched a 493-foot grand slam \u2014 the longest home run in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[5654,64,63,22909,15920,5257,1806,91950,22905,591,1830,22899,6113,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-141928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-athletics","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-brent-rooker","12":"tag-carlos-cortes","13":"tag-cincinnati-reds","14":"tag-grand-slam","15":"tag-hunter-greene","16":"tag-jacob-wilson","17":"tag-mlb","18":"tag-new-york-mets","19":"tag-nick-kurtz","20":"tag-san-francisco","21":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}