{"id":831050,"date":"2026-07-29T10:29:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T10:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/831050\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T10:29:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T10:29:29","slug":"brian-serven-hits-1st-mlb-homer-since-2022-and-jump-pitches-as-to-4-3-win-over-red-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/831050\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Serven hits 1st MLB homer since 2022 and Jump pitches A’s to 4-3 win over Red Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"

WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Brian Serven<\/a> hit his first major league home run in almost four years and rookie Gage Jump<\/a> pitched six scoreless innings as the Athletics<\/a> cooled off the Boston Red Sox<\/a> with a 4-3 victory Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Tommy White<\/a> went 4 for 4 and scored twice for the A’s, who had lost three straight and five of six. Henry Bolte<\/a> had an early RBI single, and pinch-hitter Lawrence Butler<\/a> provided a critical insurance run with an RBI double in the eighth.<\/p>\n

Connor Wong<\/a> launched a two-run homer with two outs in the ninth for the Red Sox, who had won 18 of 20.<\/p>\n

Batting ninth, Serven gave the Athletics a 3-0 lead with a two-run drive to center field in the seventh that chased starter Jake Bennett<\/a> (6-4). It was the catcher’s seventh career homer and first since Aug. 21, 2022, for the Colorado Rockies<\/a> against San Francisco.<\/p>\n

Jump (4-6) allowed three hits and four walks with seven strikeouts. Luis Medina<\/a> was charged with a run in 1 2\/3 innings and Hogan Harris<\/a> got four outs for his ninth save.<\/p>\n

Wilyer Abreu<\/a> had an RBI single off Harris that trimmed Boston’s deficit to 3-1 in the eighth. Harris then struck out Ceddanne Rafaela<\/a> with runners at the corners to end the inning.<\/p>\n

Wong’s homer cut it to 4-3 in the ninth before Anthony Seigler<\/a> flied out to the center-field wall for the final out.<\/p>\n

Bennett yielded three runs and six hits in 6 1\/3 innings. He struck out four and walked two.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Athletics LHP Jacob Lopez (5-4, 5.12 ERA) starts Wednesday night against Red Sox LHP Patrick Sandoval (0-0, 3.21).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB<\/a>: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Brian Serven hit his first major league home run in almost four years…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[58090,5654,64,63,5156,210611,42156,10146,243129,404241,352183,346970,368637,22906,391312,5882,591,85,376318,21936],"class_list":["post-831050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-anthony-seigler","tag-athletics","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-brian-serven","tag-ceddanne-rafaela","tag-connor-wong","tag-event_recap","tag-gage-jump","tag-henry-bolte","tag-hogan-harris","tag-jake-bennett","tag-lawrence-butler","tag-luis-medina","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-tommy-white","tag-wilyer-abreu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831050","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=831050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}