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Athletics bash 4 HRs, 21 hits in blowout of Angels <\/p>\nNick Kurtz, Colby Thomas, Carlos Cortes and JJ Bleday each homered and Tyler Soderstrom went 2-for-4 with a double and four RBIs to lead the Athletics to a 17-4 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Saturday night in Anaheim, Calif. <\/p>\n
Athletics bash 4 HRs, 21 hits in blowout of Angels <\/p>\n
Thomas went 2-for-5 with four runs scored and three RBIs and Jacob Wilson and Shea Langeliers each had three hits for the Athletics , who finished with 21 hits while scoring a season-high in runs. The win moved the A’s to within a half-game of Los Angeles for fourth place in the American League West. <\/p>\n
J.T. Ginn snapped a six-start winless streak dating to a July 27 victory at Houston, allowing one run on five hits over five innings. He struck out five and didn’t walk a batter. <\/p>\n
Jo Adell and Matthew Lugo hit home runs and Yoan Moncada had an RBI triple for Los Angeles, which lost its third straight game. <\/p>\n
Yusei Kikuchi lost for the fourth time in five starts, allowing seven runs on six hits and three walks in two innings. Kikuchi started the game with a strikeout of Langeliers, the 1,000th of his career, to become the fourth Japanese-born pitcher in major league history to reach that milestone, joining Yu Darvish, Hideo Nomo and Kenta Maeda. <\/p>\n
The Athletics took a 3-0 lead in the first inning on Soderstrom’s bases-loaded double, a line drive that left fielder Taylor Ward misjudged and allowed to go over his head and clear the bases. <\/p>\n
The A’s broke the game open an inning later with four more two-out runs. Brent Rooker blooped a double down the right field line to drive in Langeliers, who had doubled. Kurtz followed with a walk and Thomas then belted a three-run homer, a 411-foot drive to left-center. <\/p>\n
The Angels cut the lead to 7-1 in the third on an RBI triple by Moncada off the wall in center, driving in Mike Trout, who had walked. <\/p>\n
Kurtz made it 8-1 in the fourth when he led off with his 29th home run, a 447-foot drive deep into the rock pile in center. <\/p>\n
After the A’s added an unearned run in the sixth to extend the lead to 9-1, the Angels elected to use a position player, Scott Kingery, to pitch the final two innings. The Athletics scored five runs on eight hits in the eighth, including the first major league homer by Cortes, a three-run shot to right on a 34.8 mph curve. <\/p>\n
Lugo and Adell hit back-to-back homers in the bottom of the eighth to cut the lead to 14-3 but Bleday answered with a three-run homer in the ninth. Lugo ended the scoring with an RBI single in the ninth. <\/p>\n
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