{"id":649045,"date":"2026-05-04T13:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/649045\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T13:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:01:08","slug":"athletics-beat-guardians-7-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/649045\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics beat Guardians 7-1"},"content":{"rendered":"

CLEVELAND \u2014 Colby Thomas, Zack Gelof and Tyler Soderstrom homered to back a strong start by Aaron Civale and the Athletics beat the Cleveland Guardian 7-1 on Sunday to avoid a series sweep.<\/p>\n

What You Need To Know<\/p>\n

Civale (3-1) yielded a run on seven hits and two walks in six innings
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Messick allowed four runs on six hits in five innings
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Guardians RHP Tanner Bibee (0-4, 4.08) squares off against Royals RHP Michael Wacha (2-2, 3.13) on Monday as the road trip continues<\/p>\n

Thomas hit his first home run<\/a>\u00a0of the season, leading off the second against rookie Parker Messick (3-1) for a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n

Rookie Chase DeLauter hit<\/a>\u00a0his sixth home run \u2014 and first since April 3 \u2014 going the opposite way to left field to tie it 1-all in the fifth and extend his hitting streak to eight games. DeLauter went 8 for 11 in the series.<\/p>\n

Messick retired nine in a row following Thomas’ shot until\u00a0Gelof and Soderstrom hit<\/a>\u00a0back-to-back homers leading off the Athletics fifth. It was the second homer for Gelof and the fourth for Soderstrom, who went 3 for 4. Singles by Darell Hernaiz, Jeff McNeil and Brent Rooker produced another run for a 4-1 lead before Messick struck out Nick Kurtz to end the inning.<\/p>\n

McNeil had his third straight multiple-hit game when he drove in three with a two-out double off Peyton Pallette, who needed 36 pitches to retire the side in the seventh.<\/p>\n

Civale (3-1) yielded a run on seven hits and two walks in six innings. He retired Daniel Schneemann to end the first and third innings with runners at the corners.<\/p>\n

Justin Sterner, Mark Leiter Jr. and Joel Kuhnel all pitched a scoreless inning for the A’s.<\/p>\n

Messick allowed four runs on six hits in five innings. The left-hander had allowed one homer and 22 hits through his first 36 innings this season.<\/p>\n

Kurtz went 1 for 4 to extend the longest current on-base streak at 28.<\/p>\n

Up next\n<\/p>\n

Guardians RHP Tanner Bibee (0-4, 4.08) squares off against Royals RHP Michael Wacha (2-2, 3.13) on Monday as the road trip continues.<\/p>\n

Athletics RHP Luis Severino (2-2, 4.46) starts Tuesday when the A’s travel to play the Phillies, who haven’t announced a starter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2014 Colby Thomas, Zack Gelof and Tyler Soderstrom homered to back a strong start by Aaron Civale…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[58195,16738,3979,64,63,6115,591,44,12293,129815,58194,85,39],"class_list":["post-649045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-associated-press","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cleveland","tag-mlb","tag-news","tag-ohio","tag-ohio-cleveland-guardians","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-sports","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649045","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=649045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}