{"id":538821,"date":"2026-03-14T00:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T00:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/538821\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T00:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T00:05:07","slug":"athletics-club-3-straight-homers-on-3-pitches-against-padres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/538821\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics club 3 straight homers on 3 pitches against Padres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MESA, Ariz. &#8212; Henry Bolte, Breyson Guedez and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4966637\/nick-kurtz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Kurtz<\/a> homered on consecutive pitches from San Diego&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/40429\/michael-king\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael King<\/a> in the Athletics&#8217; Cactus League game with the Padres on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Bolte hit a 401-foot, three-run shot to right on an 0-1 pitch from King in the fourth inning. Guedez followed by delivering a 450-foot blast to right on the first pitch he saw from King. The next pitch King threw resulted in a drive that Kurtz sent just over the left-field wall.<\/p>\n<p>The Padres eventually won the game 13-9.<\/p>\n<p>Kurtz is trying to build off an outstanding 2025 season in which he earned AL rookie of the year honors and batted .290 with a .383 on-base percentage, 36 homers and 86 RBIs in 117 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MESA, Ariz. &#8212; Henry Bolte, Breyson Guedez and Nick Kurtz homered on consecutive pitches from San Diego&#8217;s Michael&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-538821","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\/538821","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=538821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}