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<\/p>\n Email Link<\/p>\n \n Nick Kurtz made baseball history on Friday night, becoming the first MLB<\/a> rookie ever to hit four home runs in a single game, during the Athletics\u2019 <\/a>15-3 win over the Houston Astros<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n \n The 22-year-old\u2019s performance \u2013 one of the greatest in MLB history by any player, rookie or otherwise \u2013 also saw him rack up 19 total bases, tying the major league record set by Shawn Green in 2002.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cIt still really hasn\u2019t sat in that it\u2019s actually just happened,\u201d a near-speechless Kurtz told reporters afterward. \u201cThat I had a game like that. It\u2019s stuff that you don\u2019t even dream about, because it doesn\u2019t really happen. So it\u2019s an unbelievable feeling.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n Kurtz went six-for-six, going deep off each of the Astros pitchers in the second, sixth, eighth and ninth innings. He also added in a single in the first, as well as a 381-foot, fourth-inning double which would have been a home run in six MLB ballparks, per ESPN. He finished with six runs and eight RBIs.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cIt\u2019s arguably the best game I\u2019ve ever watched from a single player,\u201d Athletics manager Mark Kotsay said afterward. \u201cThis kid continues to have jaw-dropping moments.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n Kurtz is just the 20th player in major league history \u2013 and the first in franchise history \u2013 to go deep four times in a single game.\n <\/p>\n \n He did so far earlier in his career than anyone else has ever managed. Before Friday, Mark Whiten\u2019s four-homer outing in his 425th MLB game in 1993 was the record, per ESPN. Kurtz achieved the feat in just his 66th appearance.\n <\/p>\n \n At the age of 22, he is also by far the youngest player ever to do so, surpassing Pat Seerey who was 25 when he hit four home runs for the Chicago White Sox on July 18, 1948.\n <\/p>\n \n Kurtz\u2019s historic night came with his parents and godparents watching on from the stands at Daikin Park.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cThis is the first time my godparents have been here, so they probably have to come the rest of the year, to every single game,\u201d Kurtz said afterward.\n <\/p>\n \n Having been picked fourth overall by the A\u2019s in the 2024 Draft, the speed at which Kurtz has become one of the league\u2019s top hitters is remarkable.\n <\/p>\n \n The Pennsylvania native has 23 home runs this season and is now on a 12-game hitting streak, during which he has racked up 20 extra-base hits.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facebook Tweet Email Link Nick Kurtz made baseball history on Friday night, becoming the first MLB rookie ever…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-24454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24454","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=24454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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